a string of launch failures doing mean a few moments for all the latest. and super star struck a summer letter arrives in russia to join north caucasus club and she much can last for a record breaking paycheck our top stories this hour. plus in business gold software's the biggest drop in three years after return an all time high more not in business in twenty minutes. international news and comment live from our headquarters in moscow where it's not just past nine pm and seven pm in tripoli where libyan rebels say they have gadhafi surrounded by it in a new audio message purportedly from the colonel he says he's still fighting on the front line whatever the truth it is promising to transfer millions of dollars of frozen libyan assets over to rebel authorities let's get more now from our to sort

of first she is in a 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 of that information is indeed fact 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 that it plans to release a billion dollars of phrase in live in assets and we've then heard that the rebels has apparently been able to make a case that they heard from his spokesman gadhafi spokesman saying that that wasn't the case and then we've heard that there is the good that he himself releasing information and speaking saying clearly 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 and what they said is since the very beginning of this war it's been a real problem not just it's leave 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 people speaking here today about that decision he said that that money was necessary to rebuild some of the infrastructure in the country and to bring stability but stability certainly at this point in time is by no means a given as we're seeing from all the conflicting information still coming out libya's still very much

a country in conflict at the moment 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 spoke today on the phone to the u.n. secretary general saying that really what he wants to see now what should be happening is that any postwar settlement happening regarding libya should be done under the monitoring very close monitoring of the u.s. and others not really what we're seeing at the moment and so that's certainly a concern a country's coming in at the moment acting in their own country's interests we've been speaking against a lot of people who said that whether you like it or not what's happening now is libya has become a business opportunity and all the european companies and the government support them really wants a slice of the action at the moment so certainly a for the coming weeks months what we could be seeing is this competition amongst

these countries to try and get in there we see in italy has very strong interests that they met today as we said with the rebel leader gibril they have very very strong interest in finding out exactly where the land lies now in regards to the contracts that they had produced while they had very very lucrative contracts of the oil company any in italy here in italy the largest foreign investor of oil post-war they had some very very strong contracts 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 written today with this money being released by a sleigh is the question mark over just who 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 it or know as we said oil is certainly going to play a very big part in libya feature not been

a very over the past couple of days talking some people about this. chill to the hearts of many smaller was and you'll strike oil whether or not the sayings true but. it comes to libya well it's going to play a pivotal role in the country's future here we have to fear restruck and. western interest to protect it or. to rebel to morning when you're trying to cover interest to restart shelling our streets possible a stranger to the concepts of friends with benefits berlusconi's being quick to k.z. up to the new transitional council inviting the public face of the group that made djibril to italy. was good at these closest european allies when the nato a bombing campaign began back in april police switch sides and began courting the

rebels in full the wall almost a third of its lease daily energy needs were imported from libya an oil giant any was the largest foreign operator in the country the government here have been doing all they can to safeguard these contracts but the if they will be able to maintain these previously close business ties is by no means a given in a post gadhafi libya the future looks extremely uncertain and there are little guarantee one of the biggest problems today 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. among the rebels there are many factions islamists tunisian people. if disorganized and chaotic and many of these groups of rebels are from the politicians that before were with gadhafi and then they completely changed their face they went with the wind as they say and you to me i think corrupt politician if. it will make gadhafi personally on

a number of occasions three business connections less than a month ago a sure turn from a fact finding trip to libya with a handwritten letter she says was written by gadhafi to berlusconi in it he allegedly. he says he was surprised by a decision to join the coalition against libya especially after we signed a friendship and cooperation treaty between our two sides the cittie he's referring to he was signed just two months before the libyan uprising the less you gaze on to ask why did you join our enemies or that any diplomatic dialogue or investigation berlusconi now seems t.v.'s the making the friends it was that maybe the final chapter that. many feared the conflict will continue i would dare to see this in the dark if you saw euphemism for the cheese among the rebels there is no. consensus. no consensus to me to be an internal. meeting

whom you actually personally talk to. be. with her or maybe now is silly along with many in the west could well find that previous lucrative relations may turn out to be just as they killed the rainfall the friendship there for. when i can talk to mark almond 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 suggest reports are suggesting that gadhafi and his sons are cornered now but still no confirmation are you surprised it's taking so long to get him. out entirely. he's had a long controversial is going to be in our interest in some ways of trying to target is not. the question is should we also be surprised if it turns out that the rebels are besieging a building. permit the track record of the rebels. correct

in their statements is very bad in some ways not at all he has a terrible reputation for making wild an improbable story but his opponent should never do seem to remember how to make. cautious about believing what we're told to we actually concrete evidence of with our own eyes this is interesting talk about the unreliability of those messages coming from the opposition the reports of rebels calling gadhafi have come in just after italy promised 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. the idea that there has been a change of regime. after control of libya not entirely sure who controls the areas that are also controlled. the rebel national transitional council has

spent much time actually not only in libya but actually after all now traveling around rome and paris and so will what i really wonder if one of these people it's not our place for the boys and girls who really are some high profile folks men who lived in america and in britain a long time who want to get out his experience and also the shadowy. we would also of course also from experience in iraq and afghanistan where billions of dollars went missing should we really send in cash and this is what we're talking about. exactly who is going to account chris how it's going to be spent it's going to recede just to emphasize the point you make there we we have been getting lots of 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 are 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 system after this collapse of could i think i think this is the case and it as far as we can see in some ways they need colonel gadhafi still to be at large in order to preserve some kind of unity because there are. those who want to be against. who turned against recently but also between the west to actually push into tripoli. and observe the almost of other wars and who a bit suspicious of the people who go along the diplomatic recognition early on don't necessarily have much of a reputation for tough fighting into even now after all they've hardly been able to gone so far west. of the regime so i think there's a lot of trouble waiting to have. people say it's not like iraq it's many ways it seems to me it's always a more problematic situation we faced 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 once gadhafi is

killed or captured will those loyalists carry on though there guerrilla warfare do you think they could actually drop their weapons and except there is no future. and his sons will or either killed or captured would destroy. his supporters pretty quickly possible that his supporters will carry on fighting in places like syria. they may not know what has happened to get a. new message just been sent out and i think you have to be thinking both the elimination of good are. after all the wrong. info to prove to saddam hussein was captured it took three or four years after his capture. and largely through opposition to change sides not through any victory or pro-democratic. just very briefly please nato is now helping the opposition hunt gadhafi they've admitted that even s.a.'s reportedly to be there doesn't that

actually can contradict claims of protecting civilians and actually not regime change was there a name well nato says it's not on the ground but of course british and french special forces are as well qatari about the arab gulf horses for america. so we have now the. nato bombing we could manage but i'm afraid. as a british and french courage on the ground. margaret here we have to 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 the twenty four hours a day coming up to forty minutes past the hour now still ahead a major coup for russian football in north caucasus a 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. 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 opposed the move but have called for an end to violence and for damascus to start social reforms of 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. but you can't run walk walk in the morning 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 blooded killings and execution is supposedly at the hands of president arsons military filmed on 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 become requests now and shout help they're killing us next door. these are not credible ways to assess the situation the u.n. has condemned over the violence against his people but damascus emphasizes from

afar until recently no u.n. mission has crossed the syrian border hyundai's a correspondent with saudi arabia based at rb international news channel in syria he says the government should blame itself for the country's image of the. foreign journalist in fact finding missions from coming in and they don't allow us to work or cannot just take your camera and go filming even here in damascus and you should and i would never agree to the government made a statement there are ten million reporters in the country everyone has a phone why should they wait with the local 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 is what went 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 martin 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 true. of another kind. of. information about what's going on. there are some armed forces on the ground that are going to billions while. most of the cities the security forces are shooting and killing. unarmed. civilians and went out to broach the even more christian freedom. muslim isn'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 he got out during the process

because he was filming it was the only one who was sorry. but you have brought this and there is already a rift that syrian state t.v. brings their evidence to support their leader. but be cheerful mother crying over her body apparently that they said that was in the homes but here at the same picture indeed it was made in the iraq in two thousand and nine they condemn the surge but they just play. one of the most oppressive regimes in the world food on the press has never been serious strong point because this is all we ask all we are 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 goals and this conflict the press is not just about coverage it's a war and as in every war they go is to we refuse to damascus syria. a major overhaul of russia's space agency has been ordered by prime minister vladimir putin's unmanned resupply vessel on its way to the international space station was lost in the skies on wednesday the search operation is underway with it's thought the craft may have burned up in the atmosphere but still concerned that some toxic materials may have come down on a piece to all of. the problems occurred for this mission around five minutes after the launch when one of the booster rockets carrying the progress module failed that resulted in the whole spacecraft breaking into several pieces and descending back towards earth they have cordoned off an area of southern siberia underneath where this incident took place now that cordoned off area is being tested for any toxic

elements that could be there the progress module did have on board. tons of toxic feel 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 are waiting for the supplies they progress module was supposed to top them up with fuel and food they still have some supplies on board in the worst case scenario and extra so you could be sent up to act as a second escape pod already one so use module attach to the international space station a soyuz module though only seats three people or six people on board it would take that extra module being 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 that's occurred in the last nine months now a full investigation has been ordered we have heard in the past that president medvedev wants to see the russian space program. dated 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 on the i assess on the ground we could see the soyuz program temporarily grounded until what caused this problem is discovered now what we are hearing from roscoe's most though is that they are fully committed to providing every single bit of supply of the supply network which they said they could give to the i.s.a.'s now they're saying that they can they can come through

on everything they promised and that this is just a blip in the road. a superstar football strike as arrived in russia to join north caucasus club. who's from cameroon a four time african player of the year has agreed a reported summary of ten million euros per season. for buffalo on 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 each leave behind flying in to join new club and. i'm starting from scratch i've won all the trophies possible in europe as a player and here i can start a new 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 tell one of the sport's most prolific goals 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 native arrow on. it seems that until recently few side of russia had heard off but which is now making spores had lines across the globe and it's in this unlikely setting that i had seen of world soap and starts is being built the story behind this transfer began in january when the douglas tony club was bought by stanley month good enough a locally born businessman and one of the richest men in russia he vowed to turn on jean to a contender hoping to transform the republic spend mage in the process a handful of promising acquisitions followed and monk the legendary brazilian to find out about the cardless the current captain of the club the fact that one of the best where's in the world will be playing. there are some families will.

america are very big in parts of the world from top of the game here in russia. i think we're given a very good image of crossing football because. it is one of the best years are the star of the past russian money in european football is nothing new back in two thousand and three russian businessmen are more in the bromwich english club chelsea and transformed a mid-level club into you or pan powerhouse you should've small enough has also ploughed his millions into english giants arsenal but this time the situation is different here is a bit 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 toes goals like the question are to reporting from the north caucasus. one of the few moments where you know the business team

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in the welcome to businesses here on artsy gold is slightly higher right now have to suffer in the biggest drop since late two thousand and eight the precious metal lost some shine as the comics exchange raise slated margins by the most in over two and a half years and that was to curb volatility but to mccutcheon from of 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 because things don't 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 gold price. but let's take a look up the latest figures for precious metals gold has now gone back down the

it's trading at seventeen hundred and sixty one dollars and ninety cents per ounce susan point three percent there that's after dropping a five percent say yes they so we're still in all as bad there let's take a look at oil oil right now is stuck with gains or losses suffered negative economic reports such as clinton's lower in new york and the s. are 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 know will announce another round of money principle pumped into this economy. in the u.s. stocks opened higher but slipped into negative territory after an unexpected increase in jobless claims and there is still exciting and negative territory out below six point one percent following the resignation of the company's c.e.o. steve jobs. in europe shares have closed in the red following losses on wall street both the policy on the back small surround one and a half percent. then it's

a similar picture here in moscow where markets and the trading session in the red both the r.c.a.'s and the my six lost over one percent let's take a look at some of the individual share moves on the why sex banking stocks were among the main gainers with sperm bank up over one percent meanwhile mining firm polymath soul was in the red on gold and other metal miner and l. and k. slipped into negative territory after earlier again. and that was because some support from strong second quarter results with the company boosting its net profit by fifty percent reaching five hundred eighty seven million dollars. its five retail group russia's leavin supermarket chain by sales has posts that second quarter and profits of seventy three million dollars that's almost two hundred percent more than in the same period last year but still slightly below analysts forecasts. and that's all the business news for now the headlines are next with

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live from us today is here in central moscow this is stories not help the search and recovery operation is underway in siberia for an unmanned resupply craft that never reached the international space station for russian space agency faces a major overhaul and after the progress the vessel broke into pieces five minutes off the launch on wednesday. in the fog of war in libya rebels claim they've surrounded by gadhafi and his compound in tripoli the spokesman insists the colonel is still fighting on the front line. western states call for tougher sanctions against the syrian regime could journalists on the ground say i'm much of footage used as evidence of a government crackdown is hard to verify. and superstar strike up.