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before the war in libya rebels claim they've surrounded moammar gadhafi and his compound in tripoli his spokesman insists the colonel is still fighting on the front line of the polls coming out. today from prime minister but it's. going to be hard to get a phrase in libyan assets will have all the latest information on that story coming up shortly. western states call for tougher sanctions against the syrian regime but journalists there say i'm going to put it used as evidence of a government crackdown is hard to verify. a search and recovery operation is underway in siberia for an unmanned space resupply craft that never reach the international space station. the bush in space agency set for
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a major overhaul following the latest in a string of launch failures join me in a few moments for all the latest. and superstar striker samuel eto arrives in russia to join a north caucasus club and she may have for a record breaking paychecks the top stories this hour. international news you come in live from my headquarters in moscow where it's not just past ten pm and eight pm in tripoli where libyan rebels say they have more like out gadhafi surrounded but in a new audience message purportedly from mcconnell he says he's still fighting on the front line whatever the truth italy is promising to transfer millions of dollars of frozen libyan assets over to rebel authorities. cerified that's the
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latest. we've heard on the back of the information released today when the italian government met with the head of the rebel council not for me to drill but happened just behind me in this building here earlier today and we had the announcement plans to release half a billion dollars of phrase in libyan assets and we then heard that the rebels had apparently been able to locate it half a mile from his i think it has the stakes in saying that that wasn't the case and then we heard that. he himself releasing information speaking saying coolly as you 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 the russian foreign minister spoke today on the phone to
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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 should be done under the monitoring very close monitoring of the u.n. and another situation has arisen stay with this money being released by a sleigh is the question mark i just to this money belongs to it's very unclear at this point in time whether this money is libyan money or whether this money belongs to the gadhafi family is a very confusing as he said a lot of business interests here in the country but whether you like it or not as we said oil is certainly going to play a very big part in libya's teacher not been brain over the past couple of days talking some people about this. kill to the heart of maize motor was and you'll strike oil whether or not that's things true when it comes to libya well it's going to play a pivotal role in the country's teacher here we have two fairly strong interest.
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that meets. the question interest to check each one. also travel to learning where you are trying to be interesting to start shopping list 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 back in egypt well to italy for talks because conduct these closest european allies in the late a bombing campaign began back in april throughout the switch sides again courting the rebels in full the wall almost a third of its least daily energy needs were imported from libya and oil any was the largest port 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 a post gadhafi libya future looks extremely uncertain and there are little
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guarantee one of the biggest problems today italy and other western countries since the beginning of the wall has been a struggle to adequately understand the internal workings of the rebels themselves . amongst the rebels there are many factions islamist tunisian people. if disorganized and chaotic and many of these groups of rebels are from the politicians with gadhafi and then they completely change their face. as they say i think politician and. it will not be personally on a number of occasions three business connections less than a month ago she returned from a fact finding trip to libya with a handwritten letter she says was written by gadhafi to berlusconi in it here allegedly says he was surprised by your decision to join the coalition against libya especially after we signed the friendship and cooperation she. he puts we not
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the chief he's referring to he was tired just keen 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 scaling down seems t.v. in the making the friends it was that maybe the final chapter they could be any good conflict will continue i would dare to see if you start for the cheese among the rebels there is no such. consensus no consensus talking to me having trouble. getting. your actual person to talk to. the kids with her for a. year 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 there . for now more analysis on the latest developments in libya from
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author and investigative journalist webster tarpley joining us live here in washington good to see here on r t webster now the reports of rebels morning about they have come in just after italy promised to hand over some frozen funds do you think the opposition is sending out optimistic messages in order to prove they are actually worth the cash. it in this entire operation we have to stress the role of the big lie of the manufactured propaganda story you'll remember on saturday sunday monday we were told he had left the country so you could been captured one of his sons khamis had been captured the calmest brigade had stopped fighting one other son mohammed was allegedly in custody it turned out all to be a big lie we even had pretty i think pretty reliable reports that the initial photographs of the rebel rebel entering green square that was actually. on stage located in doha qatar where these events were actually faked psychological
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warfare fake t.v. broadcasts and the whole business now these rebels are obviously trying to hype they're trying to cover the fact that they don't control tripoli and that the gadhafi command structure is now it's certainly intact you get gadhafi you have got most of his sons you've got to say you bring him the spokesman and information minister and now they don't have to defend fixed positions so the in a certain way the military situation of the rebels has deteriorated because instead of the gadhafi people defending fixed lines we can then be bombed by nato which is the main thing that was happening carpet bombing with pave way for and brimstone rockets from the royal air force and apache helicopters from the u.s. and u.s. drones to get out the people who are now free to move around so they don't they're not going to hold a fixed position like the the compound they're going to be moving around and that puts them on a more equal footing with the rebels it tends to minimize especially in an urban
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setting the results of the nato air superiority and we talk about the u.s. agenda in all of this in two thousand and eight then u.s. secretary of state condoleezza rice she shared a late night dinner with gadhafi opening what seemed like a new chapter in the u.s. living relations and now the u.s. is the forefront of this campaign to talk with them along with their nato partners how worried should other american allies actually feel at this point in the way that america has adopted this rather alternative viewpoint towards living. well we are of course in the throes now we're in the sixth or seventh or eighth month of a campaign by the cia and the state department to essentially cripple or destroy or maim every nation state in the area by destabilizing their governments and you remember their timetable was ben ali was supposed to follow in january he did they were able to get mubarak out with some very heavy threats coming from samantha
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power and from michael mcfaul and people in the national security council giving orders to field marshal tantawi get out he was supposed to fall in march he has essentially gummed up the works he has assumed the blocking position be the nato subversion machine and he's kept them tied up for six or seven months if the resistance were to subside which i do not think will happen these military assets that we presently see deployed in the central mediterranean will be moved to the eastern mediterranean and there has been and syria and ultimately iran had better watch out because they're also targets remember this gets into iran and also russia because of that important a naval station card to a syria which is the base of the russian mediterranean squadron so if it's if it's calming down in libya that simply means that this war will move move east but i
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think right now we're looking at a very long war in libya let's compare the two well i don't want to compare him to mobile omar but you know that was ten years ago mullah omar is still operating with no problems. i think can can go on one better so i don't don't look for good our feet to be rounded up any time and even if he is there's an extended family here and there is indeed an extended tribe the tribal organization in libya is ideal for conducting a resistance under these conditions. well prime minister berlusconi let's look at the european agenda here he's promised half a billion dollars the very same leader who was actually filmed kissing the hand of gadhafi at a meeting what back in two thousand and ten what does that tell us about the european stance many would say the word hypocrisy does this actually show that european support is is actually for sale here. these are simply the maneuvers of people who are too weak to have a frontal opposition against the u.s.
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and the british remember that perilous scaroni was targeted in the same wiki leaks document that set up an alley and fee and. rightly anglo-american say perilous kearney because he's it's close to a school friend of putin and because he's an active participant in the south stream pipeline no if you look at this libyan adventurous specifically italy is the biggest loser amy e n i the italian state oil company founded by the great and recover tape back in the one nine hundred fifty s. was the principal a participant in the libyan oil fields and as you mentioned the italians relied on this right what you see right now is an attempt by the french adventurer sarkozy and his group to essentially push the italians out and what you saw today with the visit of this this character jabril in rome in the long run is the italians are attempting to pay tribute to the new vandals in benghazi and maybe in tripoli
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if they're lucky although maybe not the new vandals are demanding tribute so the italian say we'll give you money we'll even give you free oil and gas they're simply trying to counterbalance the inside track that the french have and if you look at the situation there you know the last time you had the vandals in north africa back in the four hundred a.d. the stuff at st augustine wrote about when the vandals took over today would be algeria tunisia and libya they began delving into sicily to sardinia to corsica and southern italy and they eventually sacked rome in four fifty five so we are now facing an al-qaeda sanctuary if these rebels assert their power will have an al qaeda sanctuary. in the mediterranean we're going to have have pirates in the mediterranean the entire complection of these places is going to change very very rapidly italy will be the biggest. we saw ourselves into of that would be the flocks of the refugees into lumber and similar islands something much bigger and
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right now mixed in with rebels who have all that money the even the weapons and the support ok website we'll leave it there very interesting here your thoughts webster tarpley joining us live there in washington thank you thank you 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 of call for an interview for damascus to start social reforms over two thousand people are believed to have been killed in syria since march but as financial reports what's really going on is hard to verify. this is how the world has been watching the unrest in syria through mobile phone cameras i want to footage from the wall street in the country has flooded international news or rather blooded killings and executions supposedly at the hands of president our sense military through phone cell phones have become
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a trademark of the regime syrian officials though insists the scenes are staged the future is not credible and eye witness account is not credible. and shout help they're killing us next door. these are not credible ways to assess a situation the un has condemned over the violence against his people but then must go south assizes from afar until recently no un mission has crossed the syrian border how is a correspondent with saudi arabia based and i being the national news channel in syria he says the government should blame itself for the country's image and the goodwill it might like eating and lead banned foreign journalists and fact finding missions from coming in and they don't allow this to work you cannot just take a camera angle filming even here in damascus and you should and i would never wait until the government made a statement there are ten million reporters in the country everyone has a phone why should they wait for the lack of access to information and many people have used their cell phones to film what's been happening and to share it with the
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rest of the world. but this is what went against censorship is a double edged sword well mobile home video can give anyone ever 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. 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 truth of another kind. of. information about what's going on and they always. there are some armed forces on the ground that are civilians. and that your forces are killing. unarmed.
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civilians and. broached the question freedom. was innocent afraid of being thrown in jail has been there three times already. his afraid of being killed or friends in doom. just because he was filming it was the only one who was very. particular brought this and those are the risks that syrian state t.v. brings their evidence to support their leader. promotion of the better so i would be cheerful mother crayola her boy apparently this is because in homes but here it is same peacher indeed it was made in the iraq in two thousand and nine they could be on the side but they just play. one of the most oppressive regimes in the world through them or the press has never been serious strongpoint because this is all we are all we are for the truth to come out the birth sides of the story to be told
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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 about coverage it's a war and as in every war they go to win refreshen are to damascus syria. just turned eighteen minutes past the hour here in the russian capital still ahead for you a major coup of the russian football caucuses football player puts itself on the sporting by signing a new superstar striker and breaking the bank in the process all the details on that very 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
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international space station was lost in the skies on wednesday as search operation is underway although it's 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. as this report. problems of could 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 the sending back towards earth they have cordoned off an area of southern siberia underneath where this incident took place now that's cordoned off area is being tested for any toxic elements that could be there the progress module did have on board around one hundred 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 are waiting for the
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supplies the 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 soyuz 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 more trouble being 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 at this unmanned module isn't the first in recent times it's in the fourth it's a kid 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 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
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earth to the international space station and back down again 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 soyuz program temporarily grounded until what caused this problem is discovered now what we are hearing from roscoe's moscow 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.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. bitterly reporting that a superstar football striker has a ride through russia to join north caucasus club. who is from cameroon and a four time african player of the year as agreed a reported salary of ten million euros susan correspondent you know. all the details. you can divert from what i put on my hands for the next three years
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most of summer at chose big games that will be in russia this thursday the cameroon international left into milan and each leave behind flying in to join new club which color. i'm starting from scratch i've always trophies possible in europe as a player. plus i've played little bridge across before and you told me a lot about russian food and i do look forward to joining the team alto is the three time champions league winner and the most decorated african player of all time lightening pace has made our tell one of the sport's most prolific calls scorers increase and yes this still assigning has put 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 making its words have lines across the globe and it's and there's unlikely setting
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that a team of world superstars is being built the story behind this transfer began in january when the duchess tony clark was bought by sally monk getting him off a locally born businessman and one of the richest man in russia he found to turn our machine to a contender hoping to transform the republics and the process a handful of promising acquisitions followed him on that legendary brazilian to fund the cardless the current captain of the club the fact that one of the first wears in the world will be. there are some three million. they're very big i'm pretty proud so it's of the growth of the game here in russia. i think it will give a very good image of pro football because. it is one of the best spirits inquests is one of the star of the past russian money in european football is nothing new back in two thousand and three russian businessman that i'm on the bromley english
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club chelsea and transformed a mid-level club into you a parent powerhouse i should a smart move 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 telescopes mice in the question are easy reporting from the north caucasus. four minutes past the hour in a few minutes from the business team will bring you the latest financial news statements from adam i'll be back with a summary of the news in about five minutes from now. for the food we've got. the biggest issues get the human voice face to face with the news makers .
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in moscow she's available in hotels course them want to know over those of those hotel people publish it is called as much an east west never told. no but still showed image of an air force general sky rather soon to say yes libyan skies insulter historical hotels of its culture in the city so it's in the sky called small. mid-air as it could have until some destruction or less to become the photo . business here on our gold has suffered the biggest drop since late two thousand the rates after hitting a record peak of nineteen hundred dollars earlier this week the precious metal lost some sign of a comet six aims later margins by the most in over two and a half years and that was done. but some
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a correction from the volcker goal says lucent see you hundred dollars and forty eight hours doesn't necessarily mean that the fundamentals have trained. people have to realize that you know prices of any assets they go up they go down because things don't go up enough for every night include school 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 here is the trading if you would even 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 for precious metals gold is trading at seven hundred fifty seven dollars a nineteen cents there were some gains earlier but it's more or less flat so negative right now and that's after talking about five percent yesterday. oil is stuck between gains and losses after a negative economic reports since i quit susan low were in new york investors are
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also looking ahead so the speech of the head of the federal reserve on friday and all eyes are now on the weather ben bernanke who will announce another round of money printing to prop up the u.s. economy. boy u.s. stocks open the higher but slipped into negative territory after an unexpected includes in thoughtless claims after losses not just going to one percent and that was following the resignation of the company's c.e.o. steve jobs. european shares have closed in the red bull or losses on wall street both the footsie and the backs lost around one and a half percent. and it's a similar picture here in moscow where markets ended the trade in session in the red both the r.t.s. and the my sites lost over one percent less likely look at some of the individual share moves on the my sex banking stocks are among the main gaiters this hour with spread by over a one percent meanwhile mining firm polling data was in the red all the current
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goal dead another but some minor and i mean they slipped into the negative side story after earlier days shares gained their some support from a strong second quarter. results the company has boosted us that profit by fifty percent three to five hundred eighty seven million dollars. x. five retail group ross is live in supermarkets saying buy sales has closed the second quarter and that profits off seventy three million dollars that's almost two hundred percent more than the same period last year but still slightly below analysts forecasts. and that's all the business is for now for stories you can head so our websites are to dot com slash business but in the meantime say since all the headlines with dell by for now.
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