the fog of war in libya rebels claimed they surrounded. his compound in tripoli a spokesman insists the colonel is still fighting on the front line. the days of bullets come on the top of the pipe that is the furthest. half a billion dollars in face enough to live. on that story coming up this is. also the southwestern states call for tougher sanctions against the syrian regime but journalists there say amateur footage used as evidence of a government crackdown is hard to verify. a search and recovery operation is underway in siberia from the unmanned space resupply craft that never reach the

international space station. the russian space agency set for a major overhaul following the latest in a string of launch failures to mean a few moments for all the latest. strike arrives in russia to join north caucasus club. for a record breaking paycheck. international news or comment live from my headquarters in moscow where it's now just past eight pm and six pm in tripoli where libyan rebels say they have the gadhafi surrounded but in a new audi a message from the colonel he says he's still fighting on the front line whatever the truth is promising to transfer millions of dollars of frozen libyan assets. over to rebel authorities let's get more now from officers in sierra

conflicting messages coming out of tripoli and. it's very very hard to distinguish exactly what this information is back home what's fiction up early it's a day a meeting take place between the government heads the rebel council leader and not me djibril and also that we had five minutes the palestinian now saying that it is pledging to have released half a billion dollars a phrase in. the rebel council he's amounts of money and we've been hearing the conflict in the polls coming on the back of that that the rebels have been able to placate the you that fired him out and his spokesperson saying that even though. it's against rebels and we've also shared and just recently that and other statements being released to get out the speaking in libya that's been released and he still as you say calling on the rebels blueberry is to get ice pick we're

getting and we need tools into place to think positive things saying today about whether it's really the right flank to be releasing this might lead to the rebel council it's still extremely unsure exactly who the rebels are that he's going to lead and whether that will. take libya fullest and be able to manage the country not surprise us more about this. but here it is these reports that he worked for peace. you following the story very closely we've been hearing some people calling this whole goal of this information do we trust. third if you go through this question is true that the situation is very. unpredictable still we don't know where gadhafi. broke out into the compound. many fighters loyal to him have been killed but. if you do. no there's no clue where he can be somebody

say that he's in the tunnels in you know in the secret and how very very mysterious town knows that have been in his compound out of syria he threw away the sea. of the country well we don't know where or maybe in some regions that are still loyal to him the situation is stable it is a war we cannot see otherwise that's a very disorganized speech is this the right time to flee the scene facing us it's key to battle cancer but it's apparently he thinks we shall i think everybody now is a very seem to release money to the provisional government because everybody is trying to make the old situation. stop the lies sought to get the contracts again working to give you all you feel borking and the only way is to provide money to the transitional government because there's a fund that is the trust fund has been created a few months ago where relief the french the spanish putting money.

it's probably the only way to get things going and some to stabilize the economy again and business that is going to see western countries have a teacher test now and the potential aping of libyan oil fields and we're seeing this it back again and that's why it's nice to speak to the head of the rebel council it's really has come under some criticism for switching sides seemingly very very quickly talking shit about anyone you started with saying that she's not unexpected it was that's making its feet that happy it's all he usually has a history of changing sides he's up to this all the time even in politics in thailand politicians all this year so this is not a surprise for her it's just it can be a bit hypocritical and cynical to you know to judge i mean to to write these but any form of judgment for these must be suspended because. my ministry is used to change sides as we said everybody is raise. this is reason to get the business.

going going again. but this is a race that will see the highest bidder to prevail. even if historical relationship between italy and libya has been had been going on for so many years we must we must not forget that the first to intervene in the military level were the french and the british they. withdraw the troops on the ground first they brought the troops on the ground before anybody else was on his team after it so this can be you know that. we can. expect from this intervention on the level of intervention the level of investment it really depends on the first few intervening for the first. reoccurring government certainly aren't hanging back now are they these interests it's very seriously is it in the interests of the libyan people are they interested in an national that. even if you agree said that

there's a humanitarian crisis of interest of money to be released is for the for the population of the people of libya we must not also forget that. the main interest exceeds for the peak oil company the gold companies that are making news. not much of national interest because national interest is driven by oil companies everywhere. they get thank you very much for joining us on that day we had a lot of critics saying that these actions that are being taken the italian government pledging to release this money is it really in the interest of it being done for the right reasons are they saying that you know there's still a big question mark eva whether the mating mission game for humanitarian reasons really that just the case in stands up to scrutiny now and at a time when you know the conflict still very much going on in libya the libyan people themselves are still burying their dead whether it's a publicly the west leaders are now coming forward to. hastie's meetings with the

rebel leaders and the releasing money at the start see a lot of criticism about not speaking some other analysts earlier on this week in right they said morally but that's levy right it is exactly i would a lot of people have been feeling that realistically whether you like it or not the oil is going to play a big factor in libya's future and i keep you can hear a little bit more about what we found in right now. jill to the hearts of many smaller was and you'll strike oil whether or not that sayings true when it comes to libya well it's going to play a pivotal role in the country's future q we have to feel restraint and then. the question interest to check if it's one. or two rebels are very wary if you try to be interesting to start shelling all of possible the stranger to the concepts of friends with benefits berlusconi's been quick to k.z.

up to the new transitional council inviting the public face of the group that from egypt will to italy. was closest european allies in the eighty eight bombing campaign began back in april rima corruptly switch sides and began courting the rebels instead the full the wall almost a third of its least daily energy needs were imported from libya and oil any with the largest foreign operator in the country because many here have been doing all they can to safeguard these contracts but if they will be able to maintain these previously close business ties it's by no means a given in the post gadhafi libya select extremely uncertain and there are little guarantees one of the biggest problems italy and other western countries since the beginning of the war has been the struggle to adequately understand the internal workings of the rebels themselves. amongst the rubble. as there are many factions

in the midst of commission people. if disorganized and chaotic and many chiefs of these groups of rebels that from a politician is that before well with gadhafi and they completely changed our face . as they say anything i think that corrupt politician if. it will not be personally on a number of occasions three business connections in a month the gay she returned from a fact finding trip to libya with a handwritten letter she says was written by a to berlusconi in it he allegedly says he was surprised by your decision to join the coalition against libya especially after we signed the friendship and cooperation treaty between our two sides the cittie he's referring to he was tied just t. months before the libyan uprising the letter goes on to ask why did you join our enemies or that any to mattick dialogue or investigation berlusconi now seems t.v. to be making the friends the wall think maybe the final chapter they could be many

conflicts will continue i would dare to see if you start for the cheese among the rebels there is no such. consensus no consensus if you need to be an interim. if. you are actually the person to talk to. the. foreign media now italy along with many in the west could well find that previous lucrative relations may turn out to be just as fickle but the rainfall the weather friendships third party. the u.s. and the e.u. are pushing for more sanctions against syria's government with an embargo on oil sales likely by the end of the week russia and china oppose the move but have called for an interview for damascus to start social reforms over two thousand people are believed to have been killed in syria since march because of his maria.

emotional reports what's really going on is hard to verify that. this is how the world has been watching the unrest in syria through mobile phone cameras and to footage from the war stricken country has flooded international news or rather collided killings and execution is supposedly at the hands of president arsons military soon cell phones have become a trademark of the regime syrian officials those sinister scenes are staged the you tube is not credible and eye witness account is not credible after the come around and shout help they're killing us next door. these are not credible ways to assess the situation the u.n. has been downed over the violence against his people the damascus emphasizes from afar until recently and has crossed the syrian border hala as a correspondent with saudi arabia based on our being a national news channel in syria he says the government claim itself could help

this image i would bet they're going to you know. ban foreign journalists in fact finding missions from coming in and really don't allow us to work you know can i just take a camera angle filming you here in damascus and you should and i would imagine we all government made a statement there are ten million reporters and she lied everyone has a phone where should be a way with the like got access to information many people have used their cell phones to film what's been happening and to share it with the rest of the world. but this weapon against censorship is a double edged sword while mobile video can give anyone and perhaps help save lives it can just as well be used to transform the truth and that could come at the cost of people's lives marzan not his real name is the man behind the camera is a freelance journalist currently working for a western media outlet he cannot tell more and he doesn't want his face. on screen

hiding the truth about himself he tries to reveal the truth of another kind. of. information about what's going on. there are some armed forces on the ground that are going to billions. more sources and that's good before he starts shooting and killing. unarmed. civilians and will go to broach the regime freedom. wasn't afraid of being thrown in jail has been there three times already he's afraid of being killed or friends in the room where you go. this person was filming it was the only one who was there really. were brought this and the observer or if the syrian state t.v. brings their evidence to support their leader what are the promotion of the.

cheerful mother crying over her boy apparently there. that was in homes but here at the same picture indeed it was made in the right person i mean they could then assert they just play one of the most oppressive regimes in the world food in all the past has never been serious strongpoint because this is all we ask all we ask is for the truth to come out for the birth sides of the story to be told not just one side all the time the fact that not as many foreign journalists are allowed in . the western world once does not give the right to the western world to grab any story and put it as true but that doesn't prove to be among them it is goals and this conflict the press is not just of of coverage it's a war and as in every war they go is to win reflection our team damascus syria. well still ahead this hour here on r.t.

a major coup for russian football the north caucasus football club puts itself on the sporting map by starting a new superstar striker and breaking the bank in the process all that before shortly. but first a major overhaul of russian space agency has been ordered by prime minister vladimir putin that's after an unmanned resupply vehicle on its way to the international space station was lost in the skies on thursday social permission is under way although thought the craft may have burned up in the atmosphere but there's still concern that some toxic materials may have come down on earth bodies peter oliver has this report. the problems occurred for this mission around five minutes after the launch when one of the booster rockets carrying the progress module failed resulted in the whole spacecraft breaking into several pieces and to sending it back towards earth they have cordoned off an area of southern siberia underneath where this incident took place now last cordoned off area is being

tested for any toxic elements that could be there the progress module did have on board. tons of toxic field now scientists testing the rocks the soil and the water and preliminary results suggest that there's been no contamination on the ground for the astronauts on board the international space station who were waiting for the supplies the progress module was supposed to top them up with fuel and food they still have some supplies on board and the worst case scenario an extra so you could be sent up to act as a second escape pod already won so you attach to the international space station so you smoke you will know only seats three people or six people on board it would take that extra motor will be sent up to be able to evacuate everybody from the space station but that of course is a last resort scenario something that is really being looked into at the minute as a viable option this incident involving this on monday module isn't the first in

recent times it's in fact the fourth that's occurred in the last nine months now a full investigation has been oldish we have heard in the past the president medvedev wants to see the russian space program updated to bring it right up to the modern era the soyuz rocket is the only way we have now of getting crews from the earth to the international space station and back down again since the the nasa space shuttle program was scrapped earlier this year leaving the soyuz rocket the only lifeline we have between people only i.s.a.'s on the ground. you could see the program temporarily grounded until what caused this problem is discovered now what we are hearing from cosmos though is that they are fully committed to providing every single bit of the supply network which they said they could give to the i.s.a.'s now for more on how this incident occurred and what it means for those on

board the international space station we can now hear from my colleague john thomas what we know is that stage three fails to ignite which is the stage that propels it further into space stages one into both ignite at the same time at the actual time of launch but then there are sensors that communicate with the third stage of the rocket which you can see here and it's that third stage which propels the progress craft up out of the earth's atmosphere so that it can then be in orbit and then synchronize with the international space station talking about the international space station itself it is a very large station in fact if you spread it out over a football field in american football field including the end zones it's a pretty big place in livable space it's about the size of a five bedroom house and has two bathrooms and it is comprised of sixteen different pressurized modules which they've been putting together over the past few years now

it's relatively old in terms of space the first zarya module was launched in one nine hundred ninety eight but it has been continuously inhabited it for about eleven years in fact in november it will reach its eleven year anniversary there's a crew of six on board right now and what this progress module was about ready to deliver was food oxygen supplies as well as personal items and hygiene items for that crew of six which are on board right now another function that this progress module was to do was to help boost the space station into a specific orbit there are about six hundred times a year that the space station has to maneuver whether to avoid space debris or if it. actually adjust its orbit in certain ways so that it can keep from falling out of the sky and this progress rocket has the engines and the fuel to help this case in do that so in terms of what does this mean for the international space station and the crew on board we should note that there is no routine for space flight

there is always an inherent danger but there is no immediate threat to the crew on board right now because they have enough supplies right now we are told that they have about three months of regular supplies left as well as in additional emergency thirty day supply of food and water and necessary items for every crew member on board. now let's check out some other news from around the world at twenty one minutes past the russian capital israeli military aircraft struck a number of targets in gaza overnight the four deaths confirmed by the palestinians twenty others were also wounded despite a two day old cease fire that comes after palestinian militants fired over a dozen rockets into israel on wednesday the latest round of violence broke out last week when gunmen reportedly from gaza ambushed cars and buses near leaving eight people dead. recommend that it just pleaded not guilty during a pretrial hearing at the international tribunal for the former yugoslavia the former bosnian serb commander is accused of killing of almost eight thousand

bosnians at srebrenica in one thousand nine hundred five is not as claimed as sixty nine year old clarges two will to stand trial here in comes a day after a court on which the water and leader of rebel serbs in croatia pleaded not guilty to crimes against humanity. a superstar football strikers arrived in russia to join a north caucasus club much color as every letter who's from cameroon and a four time african player of the year has agreed a reported salary of ten million euros per season which is correspondent as all the details. of the buffalo got mike and for the next three years most of several at joe's big games will be in russia this thursday the cameroon international left into mellon and italy behind flying in to join new club under color insults in russia he'll be banking a record salary as three year contract is waiting bringing him in town million

euros per year easily be russia's reach as player and one of the top earners on earth i'm very glad to be here the most important thing in life is to be happy and i'm happy to be here i'm starting from scratch i have all the trophies possible in europe as a player and he reckons plus i've played with before and he told me a lot about russian football and i do look forward to joining the team at zero is the three time champions league winner and the most decorated african player of all time lightening pace has made out to one of the sport's most prolific or scorers recent years this still assigning has this region of russia the north caucasus into the soccer world spotlight this is the in the. it seems that until recently few hours side of russia had heard off but which is now made worse had lines across the globe and it's and there's unlikely setting that a team of world service stars is being built the story behind this trial began in

january when the duchess tony clark was aboard wastefully month getting off a locally born businessman and one of the richest men in russia he found to turn our genes to occur in times out hoping to transform the republic spinach in the process a handful of prom. acquisitions fall out and on that legendary brazilian defines a better cardless the current captain of the clock i think. the fact that one of the best players in the world will be playing. there are some families will. make their very big parts of the road from top of the game here in russia. i think it will give a very good image of russian football because. it is one of the best there to where he is not the star of the past there is a run of the biggest stars of the present russian money in european football is nothing new back in two thousand and three russian businessman the roman abramovich

bought english club chelsea and transformed a mid-level club into you a parent powerhouse i should have smart have has also ploughed his millions into english giants arsenal but this time the situation is different here is that it is to make a little known russian football team known across the world which is certainly this is a very positive acquisition for a club as well as for development of football in russia when players like him get transferred to the russian. plane standards this deal may herald a new reality in the european game where international football superstars playing for russian clumps are cast common as charles calls like the bushnell r.t. reporting from the north caucasus. or more of the day's news headlines and all interview coming up very shortly but first lady's business now with marina.

hello and welcome to business here on the right see we start with gold which has suffered the biggest drop since late two thousand and eight and that was after hitting every record peak of nineteen hundred dollars earlier this week the precious metal lost some sign as the comics exchange rays trade their margins by the most in over two and a half years and that was to curb the volatility but it's him a correction from a vulcan gold says losing two hundred dollars and forty eight hours doesn't mean the fundamentals have changed. people have to realize that you know prices of any assets they go up they go down things will go up and up forever and that includes gold we've had a huge rally in the gold price in the past week and so it's only natural that there's some correction. so clearly i think what you're seeing is your trading activity the noise as you call it in the market but the fundamental case for gold hasn't changed at all in the past couple days and so i think we're going to see continuation of what we've seen for the past ten years which is the ever increasing gold price. and let's take

a look at the latest figures bill precious metals gold has slumped to seven hundred forty four dollars and twenty five cents per ounce and that's a drop off point nine percent and the drop wife percent yes this is doing is slightly better right now let's take a look at oil prices there are mixed this hour after a negative economic report sent equities lower your investors are also looking ahead to the speech all ahead of the federal reserve on friday and all eyes are now on the whether ben bernanke he will announce another round of money printing to prop up the u.s. economy. will and you as salts open higher but slipped into negative territory after an unexpected increase in thoughtless claims apple last seen point one percent following the resignation of the company's c.e.o. steve jobs. european shares have closed in the red following losses on wall street both the footsie and the dax lost around one and a half percent. but it's

a similar picture here in moscow where markets and of the trade in session in the ride both the arts yes and the my sex lost over one percent less like a look at some of the individual share moves on the my sex banking stocks are among the main gaiters words for a bike off over one percent meanwhile mining firm poly metal was in the red on eco gold and other metal miner and l m k s left into the negative territory this by its earlier gains shares gained some support from the strong second quarter results the company has. who said it's their profit by fifty percent region five hundred eighty seven million dollars. x. five retail group rush is the even supermarket chain by sales has posted second quarter their profits seventy three million dollars that's almost two hundred percent more than the same period last year but slightly below analysts or pasts. the last wall than seems or in the north soon gas pipeline so they go up in that

world to germany is completes the direct link from the russian reserves in siberia is more than so hundred kilometers long and goes via the baltic sea the company operate in the collection pipeline when this group says it's ready for the gas to flow it expects the commission of the first of north things twenty pipelines to start in the fourth quarter of twenty eleven. but that's all the business is for now the headlines are next with bell.