the really in control not so boring sure to find this piece of the first book i'll sure can pinsky swisher till closing the whole deal to let me know it's come golden retriever coachmen. before the war in libya rebels claim they've surrounded mama gadhafi near his compound in tripoli but his spokesman insists the colonel is still fighting on the front line. with lots of conflicting reports today days coming on the back of the announcement by prime minister that escape that he pledges to believe hop and toll is brazen libyan will be trying to help you distinguish fact from fiction in just a bit. also this hour western states call for tougher sanctions against the syrian regime but journalists there say amateur footage used as evidence of the government crackdown is hard to verify. a search and recovery operation is underway inside

syria from unmanned space resupply craft that never reach the international space station. the russian space agency's that for a major overhaul following the latest in a string of launch failures join me in a few moments for all the latest. superstar striker samuel eto arrives in russia to join the north caucasus club and for a record breaking paycheck our top stories this hour. class and business goal itself was the biggest drop in three years after return an all time high more on that in business in twenty minutes. international news and comment live from my headquarters in moscow where it's now just past nine pm and seven pm in tripoli where libyan rebels say they have.

gadhafi surrounded by new order a message purportedly from the colonel he says he's still fighting on the front line whatever the truth is he is promising to transfer millions of dollars of frozen libyan assets over to rebel forces let's get more now from our to sort of first she is. conflicting messages coming out of tripoli at the moment who do we believe. well it's very very hard to get an accurate gauge on exactly what about information is indeed factual now we've heard on the back of the information released today when the italian government met with the heads of the rebel council much. that happened just behind me in this building here earlier today and we had the announcement of it if he plans to release half a billion dollars of brazen libyan assets and we then heard that the rebels had apparently been able to make a could be heard from his spokesman get out the spokesman saying that that wasn't the case and then we've heard that. gadhafi himself over leasing information

speaking saying calling as usual for the rebels to rise up and continue fighting the rebel it's an extremely confusing time and this is really pulled into focus what a lot of critics have been saying which is is this really the right time to be releasing money to the rebel council they're not so sure it's still very unclear exactly who's in charge and i've been speaking some analysts say for the past couple of days all they said is since the very beginning of this war it's been a real problem not just it's leading many countries in the west for the foreign involvement to really understand exactly what's been happening within the rebel groups themselves it's an extremely confusing time the groups are made up of many different factions and there's still a lot left to be resolved it's not sure that they're a stable governing force and say certainly whether they should be receiving this level of funding at the moment now we had two girls speaking here today about that decision he said that the money was necessary to rebuild some. the infrastructure

in the country and to bring stability but stability stance in the at this point in time is by name means a given as with being for all the conflicting information still coming out libya is still very much a country in conflict and they then let's talk about russia's position now russia has been critical of the rush by some states to recognize the opposition as libya's legitimate leadership what is more scary saying about the latest moves. well the russian foreign minister speaks today on the phone the u.n. secretary general saying that really what he wants to see now what should be happening is that any post-war settlement happening regarding libya sheepy done under the monitoring very close monitoring of the u.n. and others not really but we're staying at the moment and so that's certainly a concern a country's coming in at the moment i think in their own country the interests we in speaking against a lot of people he said whether you like it or not what's happening now it's

a small libya has become a business opportunity and all the european companies and the government. really wants a slice of the action at the moment so certainly a for the coming weeks months we could be seeing this competition amongst these countries to try and get in there we see in its place very strong interest that they met today as he said with the rebel leader gibril they have very very strong interest in finding out exactly where the land life now in regards to the contacts a day has faced will they had very very lucrative contracts of the oil companies any in italy here in italy the largest foreign investor of oil post-war they have some very very strong contracts and we've already heard from the foreign ministry here that they've already sent stuff back to the ground so they certainly do have a lot involved in this now another situation has to make its day with this money being released by play is the question mark i just to this money belongs to his very unclear at this point in time whether this money is libyan money or whether

this money belongs to the gadhafi family is so very confusing as he said a lot of business interests here in the country but whether you like you know as we said well it's certainly going to play a very big part in libya's feet and i've been very over the past couple of days talking to people about this. pill to the heart of mace motor was and you'll strike oil whether or not that's sayings true. when it comes to libya well it's going to play a pivotal role in the country's future here we have to feel restricted. to western interest to check for just one. or two rebels fighting with a future libyan government in trying to restore from western possible the stranger to the concepts of friends with benefits berlusconi being quick to k.z. up to the new transitional council inviting the public face of the group but major brill to italy to. these closest european allies when the native bombing

campaign began back in april probably switch sides and began courting the rebels in full the wall almost a third of its least daily energy needs were imported from libya an oil giant 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 is by no means a given. in libya the futility extremely uncertain and there a little guarantee one of the biggest problems of a italy and other western countries since the beginning of the wall has been the struggle to adequately understand the internal workings of the rebels themselves. amongst the rebels there are many factions commission people if you ask your city

and many of these groups of rebels and from the politicians with gadhafi and then they completely change their face. because they say anything i think corrupt politician if. it will make it the 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 get updates of berlusconi in it here live. woodley says he was surprised by a decision to join the coalition against libya especially after he signed the friendship and cooperation treaty between us he cites the cittie he's referring to he was thank you q months before the libyan uprising the letter gaze on. why did you join our enemies or that any diplomatic dialogue or investigation now seems t.v. be making a friends the one thing maybe the final chapter they could be anything complex will continue i would dare to see if you know if these are. the cheapest among the

rebels there is no arts. consensus. consensus of opinion to me and instead of. getting. your actual person to talk to. be. with her. media now is silly along with many in the west could well find previous lucrative relations may turn out to be just despicable but the rainfall the friendship. the. one i can talk to mark a history professor at oxford university for his perspective on the latest developments in libya thanks indeed for joining us live there from oxford now wrote suggests reports are suggesting that gadhafi and his sons are call of now but still no confirmation are you surprised it's taking so long to get him. out entirely. is how long. it will be in our interest in some way.

and. the question is should we also be surprised if it turns out that rebels are. armored the track record of the rebels. in their statements is very bad in some ways. i mean wild and improbable think. revolution and how to make. rather cautious about. what we're told and we actually saw. with our own eyes this is interesting talk about the unreliability of those messages coming from the opposition the reports of rebels calling khadafi have come in just start to italy promise the rebels the colonel's frozen assets so do you think the opposition is actually sending out these messages trying to prove they're actually worth the cash. right there in charge because of course. we're going in the african union. idea that there has been

a change of regime. after. libya not entirely sure who controls the. rebel national transitional council. and russia trying to actually not only in libya but actually in places like. iris and so will. these people it's not the boys and girls who really are for some high profile showed some to look in america. or want to get off his experience and also in the shadow if it was . also of course hospitals if you experience in iraq ok mr appearance of dollars went missing should we really send in cash and this is what we're talking about long. how it's going to be spent it's going to recede just to to emphasize the point you make there we we have been getting amateur videos from the so-called liberated libya people running away from prisons chaos on

the streets children celebrating on tripoli central square carrying guns you raise a good point all of those rebels i mean they were united in opposition but will they be united in government will they be capable of actually setting up some sort of political legitimacy after this collapse of gadhafi i think this is the question is as far as we can see in some ways they need still to be at large in order to preserve some kind of unity because there are. those who have been against him. recently but also because the west who actually. observe some of the wars and who gets suspicious of the people who are on the grammatic missionary i don't necessarily have much of a reputation for fighting in even now after all they hardly know programs. and. so i think was a lot of trouble waiting to happen. so it's not like iraq is many ways in some ways i mean problematic situation we face in iraq in two thousand and three

let me just ask you we've been talking about maybe the potential disunity and the violence amongst the rebels themselves after gadhafi is gone but what about what's good i think is killed or captured we'll know his loyalists carry on though there guerrilla warfare or do you think they can actually drop their weapons and except there is no future. for border to hold his sons were all war either killed or captured would destroy. his supporters including lots of what his supporters who are carrying on fighting in places like syria and it was. really made a lot of time to get out. and i think we have to be thinking both need a little notion of. after all we've run. into a room for saddam hussein was captured. four years are. in large. opposition to change sides not through any victory or.

just very briefly please nato is now helping the opposition hungered i think they've admitted that even though s.a.'s is reportedly to be there does not actually contradict claims of protecting civilians and actually not regime change was their aim well it's not on the ground but of course british and french special forces. that are. also on our. yes but you don't like the show we have now the. nato bombing. but i'm afraid. of british and french reporters. showing installing. margaret here we have so as always thank you for joining us mark on them professor oxford university it's live there thank you for the society coming to you from the russian capital with twenty four hours a day coming up to forty minutes past the hour now still ahead a major coup for russian football the north caucasus football club puts itself on the sporting map by signing

a new superstar striker and breaking the bank in the process all the details shortly. but first the u.s. and the e.u. were pushing for more sanctions against syria's government with limbaugh go on oil sales likely by the end of the week russia and china opposed the move but have called for an end to violence and for to mask to start social reforms and the two thousand people are believed to have been killed in syria since march but as artie's reports what's really going on is hard to verify. began to work walk in the morning this is how the world has been watching the unrest in syria through mobile phone cameras i want to footage from the war stricken country has flooded international news or rather blooded killings and executions supposedly at the hands of president ourselves military coup and cell phones have become a trademark of the regime syrian officials though insists the scenes are staged the you tube is not credible and eye witness account is not credible after come round

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 no u.n. mission has crossed the syrian border hala as a correspondent with saudi arabia they are being a national news channel in syria he says the government usually blame itself for the country's image of the goodwill you misread and foreign journalists in iraq training missions from coming in and read the word can i just pick a camera angle filming you here in damascus and you should and would never told them and made a statement to return a million reporters and everyone has a phone where should be we were the local access to information and 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 one 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 to appear on screen hiding the truth about himself it tries to reveal the. of another kind. of. information about what's going on they always. there are some armed forces on the ground that are purely civilian while the. more sources that your forces are for killing. unarmed. civilians and will go to broach the more christian freedom. muslim isn't

afraid of being thrown in jail has been there three times already his afraid of being killed or friends in the room where you go. during the process because he was filming it was the only one who was thirty thousand births were broken and there was already a riff that syrian state t.v. brings their evidence to support their leader how the sword out of promotion of the middle of it was. a cheerful mother crying over her boy apparently dead they said that was in the homes but here at the same picture indeed it was made in the right in that there's a nine day condemn assad but they just play one of the most oppressive regimes in the world to them of the press has never been serious strong point because this is all we ask all we ask is for the truth to come out 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 rights to the western world to grab any story. and put it as true but that doesn't look to be among them it is. and this conflict the press is not just about coverage it's a war and as in every war they go to wean refresh our team damascus syria. but major overhaul of russia's space agency has been ordered by prime minister vladimir putin that's after an unmanned resupply vessel on its way to the international space station was lost in the skies on wednesday a search operation is underway although it's thought the craft may have burned up in the atmosphere there's still concern that some toxic materials may have come down on earth artie's peter all of that has more. 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 descending towards earth they have cordoned off an area of southern siberia underneath where this incident took place now the cordoned off area is being tested for any toxic elements that could be there the progress module did have around one tons of toxic feel now scientists testing the rocks the soil and the water and collimator results suggest that this being no contamination on the ground for the astronauts on board the international space station who are 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. as a second to skateboard already one so he's module attached to the international space station so you will know only seats three people or six people on board it would take that extra module be sent up to be able to evacuate everybody from the

space station but that of course is a last resort scenario something that isn't really being looked into at the minute as a viable option this incident involving this unmanned module isn't the first in recent times it's in fact the fourth in the last nine months now a full investigation has been old as 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 now that since the the nasa space shuttle program was scrapped earlier this year leaving the so you struck at the only lifeline we have between people only i.s.a.'s on the ground. we could see the saudis program temporarily grounded until what caused this problem is discovered well what we are hearing from cosmos though is that they are fully

committed to providing every single piece of supply of the supply network which they said they could give to the i know they're saying that they can they can come through on everything they promised and that this is just a blip in the road artie's peter all of it they're a superstar football strikers arrived in russia to join north caucasus club to learn some of the who's from cameroon a four time african player of the year has agreed a reported summary of ten million euros season. coaching over the little. puppy will go in my hand for the next three years most of summer at those big games will be in russia this thursday the cameroon international left into milan and to leave behind flying in to join new club which color. i'm starting from scratch i've won all the trophies possible in europe as a player and he reckons starting new plus i've played little britain calls before

and he told me a lot about russian football and i do look forward to joining the team alto is the three time champions league winner and the most decorated african claire of all time lightening case has made our tell one of the scores most prolific calls scorers increase and yes this stellar signing has put this region of russia the north caucasus into the soccer world spotlight this is the in need says. it seemed that until recently few side of russia had heard off but which is now making force had lines across the globe and its inverse unlikely son saying that i'd seen off world service starts is being built the story behind this transfer began in january when they got to stanley clarke was bought by silly monkey team of a locally born businessman and one. the richest man in russia he vowed to turn on jean to a contender hoping to transform the republic spinach in the process a handful of promising acquisitions followed and long that legendary president of

finds out about the cardless the current captain of the club the fact that one of the first where's in the world will be where. there are some premier league will. where there are very big parts of the world from top of the game here in russia. i think it will give a very good image of brothel because. it is one of the persevered where it is not the star of the past russian money in european football is nothing new back in two thousand and three russian businessmen are on the bromwich english club chelsea and transforms a mid-level club into a you are paying 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 this deal may heralds a new reality in the european game where international football superstars playing

for russian clubs are asked common as those goals like the question are easy reporting from the north caucasus. when in a few moments when you know the business team will bring you the latest financial news to stay with us live here in moscow this is. for the feel we've got. the biggest issues get the cuban voice face to face with the news makers on. the. peace soon which brightened a few new valve song from plans to. keep

don't come. in the balkans a business here on artsy gold is slightly higher right now after suffering the biggest drop since late two thousand and eight the precious metal lost some sign as the coin of that same race played in margins by the most in over two and a half years and that was to curb volatility but some a caution from of a gold says losing two hundred dollars and forty eight hours doesn't necessarily mean the fundamentals have changed. people have to realize that you know prices of any assets they go up they go down with her wrecked 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 just the 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 o'groats. then let's take a look at the latest figures for precious metals gold has now all gone private down the it's trading at seventeen hundred and sixty one dollars and ninety cents per ounce and is in point three percent there that's after dropping a five percent yesterday so we're still involved as there let's take a look at oil oil right now is stuck between gains and losses suffered negative economic reports sun's eclipse is lower in new york and that's there's also looking ahead to the speech on the head of the federal reserve on friday and all eyes are now on whether ben bernanke you will announce another round of money principle for the u.s. economy. in the u.s. stocks opened higher but slipped into negative territory after an unexpected the increase in jobless claims and they're still trading and i guess it's or it's already out the last six or i want the signs following the resignation of the

company's c.e.o. steve jobs. in europe shares have closed in the red color losses on wall street both the placebo on the backs and also around one and a half percent. but it's a similar picture here in moscow where markets end of the trading session in the red both the r.c.a.'s m i six well several one sides let's take a look at some of the individuals here moves on my sex banking stocks were among the main gainers with sperm bank up over one percent meanwhile mining firm polymaths all of those in the red on the gold and the other metal miner and l. and pay slip and soon that gets its territory after earlier jan. it's and that was because some support from strong second quarter results with the company boosting its net profit by fifty percent from five hundred eighty seven million dollars. its five retail group crosses leavin supermarket chain by sales last post the second quarter and profits of seventy three million dollars that's almost two

hundred percent more than the same period last year but still slightly below analysts forecasts. but that's all the business is for now the headlines are next with bill by for.