and superstar striker samuel eto arrives in russia to join a north caucasus club how to color for a record breaking paycheck our top stories this hour. international news and comment 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 a gadhafi surrounded but in a new audience message purportedly from the congo 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 or to sarah ferguson as the latest. we've heard on the back of the information released today when the italian government met with the heads of the rebel council mark me to braille that

happened just behind me in this building here earlier today and we had the announcement that at least plans to release a half a billion dollars of phrase in live in assets and we then heard that the rebels had apparently been able to make a kit as they then heard from his spokesmen get as he speaks been saying that that wasn't the case and then we've heard that there is to get out for himself every least thing information 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 with the russian foreign minister speaks 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 place to go settlement happening with god in libya should. be

done under the monitoring very close monitoring of the u.n. another situation has arisen stay with this money being released by sleigh is the question mark over 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 future not been in bahrain over the past couple of days talking some people about this. chill to the heart of most modern 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 a strong interest. to western interest to tell you to join. also rebels ordinary future didn't come interesting to restore standing on the

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 for tool. these closest european allies in the native bombing campaign began back in april put up with a 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 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 cards is by no means a given in a post gadhafi libya the future likely extremely uncertain and there are little guarantees one of the biggest problems with italy and other western countries since the beginning of the war has been the struggle to adequately. the stans the

internal workings of the rebels themselves. among the rebels there are many factions islamists tunisian people al-qaeda if disorganized and chaotic and many chiefs of these groups of rebels that from the politicians that before were with gadhafi and then they completely change their face the wind with the wind as they send it to me i think that corrupt politician if. it will make it happy personally on a number of occasions three business connections less than a month the gay she returned from a fact finding trip to libya with a handwritten letter she says was written by gadhafi to palace gaining 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 talking just two months before the libyan uprising the letter goes 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 the death the many fear the conflict will continue i would dare to see this done if you talk to him for what she is among the rebels there is no such. consensus no consensus call for me to be an internal. meeting. you are actually the person to talk to. be. with her foreign media now is silly along with many in the west could well find that previous lucrative relations may turn out to be just as fickle of the rainfall as the friendship is there for. for now more analysis on the latest developments in libya from author and investigative journalist webster tarpley joining us live there in washington good to see you here on r.t. webster now the reports of rebels mourning adelphi 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 to darfur had left the country saif had been captured one of his sons comus 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 have 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 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've got kicked off or you've 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 it 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 the gadhafi people 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 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 shed

a late night dinner with gadhafi opening what seemed like a new chapter in the u.s. libyan relations and now the u.s. is the forefront of this campaign to topple him along with the. nato partners how worried should american allies actually feel at this point in the way that america has adopted this rather alternative viewpoint towards libya. we are of course in the throes now we're in the sixth or seventh or eighth month of a campaign by the cia in 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 fall in january he did they were able to get mubarak out with some very heavy threats coming from samantha power and from michael mcfaul people in the national security council giving orders to field marshal tantawi get dotty was supposed to fall in march he has essentially

gummed up the works he has assumed the blocking position visa vi the nato subversion machine and he's kept them tied up for six or seven months if gadhafi 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 and remember this gets into iran and also russia because of that important naval station to 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 think right now we're looking at a very long war in libya let's compare gadhafi to well i don't want to compare him to the omar but you know that was ten years ago mullah omar is still operating with

no problems. i think can can go in one better so i don't don't look for gadhafi 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 where 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 were too weak to have a frontal opposition against the u.s. and the british remember that barely scaroni was targeted in the same wiki leaks document dump that set up ben ali and get the fee and. that's why the anglo

americans hate berlusconi because he's it's close to arsenal friend of putin and because he's an active participant in the south stream pipeline now if you look at this libyan adventurous specifically italy is the biggest loser amy and i the italian state oil company founded by the great and become a tape back in the one nine hundred fifty s. was the principal 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 your saw today with the visit of this this character jabril in rome and the lawn is the italians are attempting to pay tribute to the new vandals in benghazi and maybe in tripoli if they're lucky although maybe not the new vandals are demanding tribute so the italians 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

if you look at the situation there you know the last time you had the vandals in north africa back in the four hundred eighty the stuff that saint augustine wrote about when the vandals took over what would today would be algeria tunisia and libya they began delving then into sicily to sardinia to corsica and southern italy and they eventually sacked rome in four fifty five so we are now facing. a sanctuary if these rebels assert their power will have an sanctuary. in the mediterranean we're going to 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 a sort of hint of that with the flocks of the refugees into law and similar islands something much bigger and right now mixed in with rebels who have all that money the eighty billion the weapons and the support ok webster we'll leave it there very

interested hear 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 oppose 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. reports what's really going on is hard to verify. but it can work in the morning this is how the world has been watch and then dressed in syria through mobile phone cameras and to footage from the war stricken country has flooded international news or rather blood it. killings and executions supposedly at the hands of president ourselves military filmed on cell phones have become a trademark of the regime syrian officials though insists the scenes a staged the you tube is not credible and i 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 un has condemned over the violence against his people but damascus emphasizes from a far until recently no un mission has crossed the syrian border hyundai's a correspondent with saudi arabia based at rb international news channel on syria he says the government should blame itself for the country's image and the. foreign journalists in fact finding missions from coming in and really don't allow us to work cannot just take a camera and go filming even here in damascus and you should and i would never we told government made a statement there are ten million reporters in the country everyone has a phone why should do away with the lack of 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 going against censorship is a double edged sword while mobile home 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 he's 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 its rise to reveal the truth of another kind. for making the book was always. there some armed forces i don't think we're going to believe is wild. in most of the cities that security forces are shooting killing. unarmed. civilians and went out to broach the question 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 shot down during the process because he was filming it was the only one who was sorry to. have brought this and others are very rich that syrian state t.v. brings their evidence to support their leader. of the much better. be cheerful mother crying over her body apparently dead they said that was in the homes but here it is same picture indeed that was made in the iraq in two thousand and nine they can then assert but they just lie. one of the most oppressive regimes in the world freedom of the press has never been serious strong point because this is all we ask all we are is for the truth to come out for both 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 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 win refuse to damascus syria. just turned eighteen minutes past the hour here in the russian capital still ahead for you a major coup for 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. 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 wednesday a 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. the problem is

a 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 descending back 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 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 and the worst case scenario an extra soyuz rocket could be sent up to act as

a second escape pod already one so use module attached 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 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 not 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 on the 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 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. of reporting that a superstar football striker has arrived in russia to join north caucasus club. who is from cameroon and a four time african player of the year has agreed a reported salary of ten million euros season correspondent do you know. the details. thank you very. much and for the next three years most of samurai 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

color. i'm starting from scratch of all the trophies possible in europe as a player and here i can start a new plus i've played before and you 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 one of the sport's most prolific goals scorers in priest and yes this still assigning has put this region of russia the north caucasus into the soccer world spotlight this is the in the he says. it seems that until recently few hours side of russia had hurried off but which is now making its force had lines across the globe and its inverse unlikely setting that i'd seen off world service stars is being built the story behind this trial began in january when the douglas tony clark was bought by sally month getting him off

a locally born businessman and one of the richest man in russia he found to turn on gene to a contender hoping to transform the republic's image in the process a handful of promising acquisitions followed among the legendary brazilian to fund the cardless the current captain of the clock the fact that one of the first. in the world will be where. there are some. very. they're a very big impact look at the world from top of the game here in russia. i think it will give a very good image or a profile because. it is one of the best series not the star of the past russian money in european football is nothing new back in two thousand and three russian businessman and i'm on them but i'm one of the english club chelsea and transformed a mid-level club into you are paying 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 herald a new reality in the european game where international football superstars playing for russian clubs are asco men as those goals and i do not question our reporting from the north caucasus. four minutes past the hour in a few minutes from the business team we'll bring you the latest financial news stay with us from abu dhabi but with a summary of the news in about five minutes from now. for the full stop we've got. the biggest issues get a human voice face to face with the news makers. in moscow she's available in hotels i'm going to know over those are all it takes to

keep a promise it is called as much as east west never told. no but. rather soon to say yes sloviansk on. historical hotels of a culture in the city. called small. elegant up until the strength for us to tropicana hotel. here on our gold has suffered the biggest drop since late two thousand and eight after hitting a record peak of nineteen hundred dollars earlier this week the precious metal lost some signed as the comics exchange raise slated margins by the most in over two and a half years and that was done. but some mccutcheon from gold says lucent sue hundred dollars and forty eight hours doesn't necessarily mean that 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. let's take a look at the latest figures for precious metals gold is trading at seven hundred fifty seven dollars and ninety cents there were some gains earlier but it's more or less flat it's a negative right now and that's after dumping about five percent yesterday. or oil is stuck between gains and losses after a negative economic report sent to equities lower in new york investors are 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. while u.s.

stocks open the higher but slipped into negative territory after an unexpected includes claims apple lost as much as two point one percent and that was 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 banks lost around one and a half percent. and it's a similar picture here in moscow where markets end of the trading session in the red both the r.t.s. 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 this hour puts her back up over one percent meanwhile mining firm holding battle was in the red although we've heard gold and another mess of minor and i mean pay slip into the negative side story after earlier day shares gained there some support from a strong second quarter. results become pretty has boosted its their profit by

fifty percent reaching five hundred eighty seven million dollars. x. five retail group rush is leader in supermarket chain by sales has posted second quarter net 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 for stories you can head to our website artsy dot com slash business but in the meantime say it's in for the headlines with bill bye for now.

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the twenty four hours a day this is our team life here from our studios in central moscow top stories now a search and recovery operation is underway in siberia for an unmanned resupply craft that never reached the international space station the russian space agency faces a major overhaul enough to be progress a vessel broke into pieces five minutes off the bolts. on wednesday. the fog of war in libya rebels claim they've surrounded moammar gadhafi may his compound in tripoli the spokesman insists the colonel is still fighting on the front line. and superstar. arrived in russia to join north caucasus club. the cameroonian has agreed a reported salary of ten million euros per season and will become easily the high.