international news and comment live from my headquarters here in moscow where it's now just past one am and eleven pm in tripoli where libyan rebels say they have gadhafi surrounded but a new audi a message purportedly from the colonel he says he's still fighting on the front line whatever the truth and he's promising to transfer millions of dollars of frozen libyan assets over to rebel authorities. 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 brill that happened just behind me in this building here earlier today and we had the announcement of italy plans to release half a billion dollars of phrase in live in assets and we then heard that the rebels had apparently been able to make

a kid. from his cycling gadhafi spokesman saying that that wasn't the case and then we heard that there's a new guitar for himself releasing information and speaking to 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 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 post-war settlement happening regarding 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 islay is the question mark over just who 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 we 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 and right over the past couple of days talking some people about this. will to the heart of most 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 two very strong interest me. the western interest to tell you to join. but also to rebel to ordinary. trying to be interesting to restart show me how this possible is stranger to the concept of friends with benefits berlusconi's being quick to k.z. up to the new transitional council inviting the public face of the group last major brill to italy to talk. these closest european allies in the nato bombing

campaign began back in april when the property switch sides began courting the rebels in full the war 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 cards it's 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 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. and many chiefs of these groups of rebels are from the politicians with gadhafi and then they completely changed. and as they say i need to know i think corrupt

politicians and i. could be personally on a number of occasions three business reactions. to gay she returned from a fact finding trip to libya with a handwritten letter she says was written by gadhafi to berlusconi days 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 treaty he's referring to he was trying 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 that is skating down seems teeth in the making new friends that maybe the final chapter of. any big conflict will continue i would dare to see this in the kentucky you can talk to you. but she's among the rebels so there is no such. consensus no consensus to me to be an internal.

meeting who will be actually the person to talk to. who will 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 the range. of friendship there are. well for some insight into the libya conflict and antiwar activists and journalists joins me live now from the u.s. thanks very much indeed for being with us here on our team al-jazeera understand is reporting that it has found evidence of a possible mass execution by gadhafi forces while the colonel has been accusing the rebels of killing civilians whatever the truth on is there a danger that revenge killings are taking place and therefore nato has humanitarian mission is being undermined. well first of all if there are revenge killings going

on let's look at what the motives for revenge might be on the one hand settling political scores the rebels and there's evidence including video evidence that the executions were by rebels of a libyan nationals who were handcuffed that's the first thing on the other side any revenge killings would be the defense basically of their own land by invaders so you know it's hard to tell it's i'm watching our t.v. in the coverage over the last hour preparing for this and the coverage on our t.v. is much closer to the sources that i've been speaking with on the ground in tripoli than the fantasy that it's being played out both by al jazeera and i'll get to that in a minute but what their motives are and the western press c.n.n. and the others that talk about in circling get coffee and as if they haven't retracted their claim that the rebels are in control of the majority of tripoli my understanding and reports from on the ground is that the rebels who are actually

could tarries and that's the reason for al-jazeera is partisan coverage is they are army that came in from the dress those irregulars except for their officers but they came in by the sea and they're now on the sea road trying to escape under heavy government fire so you know it's pretty difficult to tell from our media what's going on but it appears that the rebels so-called advocates are is have been routed and now the report that i had received earlier in the week that there were bits ari bodies strewn on the streets of tripoli this whole move to explain an incursion of qatar is to go protect against mustard gas has to be seen as some way to explain to the people and kids are why dead bodies are coming back from tripoli well let's also talk about this theme about makes messages the rebels being saying they're very close to capturing gadhafi indeed the other day they said they kept inside one of his sons do you think they themselves whoever they are. they're under pressure to deliver and so giving out these prematurely optimistic messages always

see for one thing to get those funds from those countries like it's any yeah i was going to say let's go against the motive i'm curious with the maker of the check five hundred million dollars will be but certainly it's clear that the recipient is jill we'll and you know this is a guy who only two weeks ago has been linked to the murder of his own general and then of courage of his council so he ends up in control of among other things the finance ministry of the n t c so it's not known how exactly someone gets to write a deck of libyan sovereign funds which contrary to the propaganda have been spent over the last thirty five forty years on the people of libya constructing housing that they own free of incompetence health care system that's free and education system that's free those funds are now going to be handed over to a guy who you can't really characterize anything it's that it has anything at this point but it is against it coops or not i want to quick reaction from killing

capturing gadhafi one would imagine that we message to the law is that it's all over that they've got no future but could this still turn out to be a long protracted guerrilla war in libya after it's all over once gadhafi is gone just very briefly your outlook for the immediate future very quickly i've been referring to this says obama's bay of pigs the people of libya are armed with more than a million weapons just in tripoli gadhafi or no people are going to fight and nato is going to find itself in a quagmire thank you very much indeed for your thoughts journalists activists don't about joining us live from new york state here on naughty 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 the week russia and china repos the move but of call for an end to violence and for damascus to start social reforms and the two thousand people have believed to been killed in syria since march but as aunties maria financial reports what's really going on is haunting there. this is how the

world has been watch in 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 executions supposedly at the hands of president ourselves military filmed on cell phones have become a trademark of the regime syrian officials though insist 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 a situation the u.n. has condemned over the violence against his people but damascus emphasizes from a far 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 and the bill it might like he may ban foreign journalists in fact finding missions from coming in

and they don't allow us to work can i just take a camera and go filming even here in damascus and you should and i would never way to the government made a statement there are ten million reporters in the country everyone has a phone why should they wait with the lack of access to information many people have used their cell phones to feel 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 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 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. of. information about what's going on.

there are some armed forces on the ground that are going to believe. that your forces are killing. unarmed. civilians and. broached the. muslim isn't afraid of being thrown in jail has been there three times already. his afraid of being killed or friends you don't want where you go. during the process because it was for me it was the only one who was very. broken and as a result of a bridge that syrian state t.v. brings their evidence to support their leader. should that be cheerful mother crying over her body apparently dead they said that was in the homes but here it is 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 freedom of the past 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 the goal is to wean refuse to damascus syria. a major overhaul of russian space agency has been ordered by prime minister vladimir putin that's after an unmanned supply vessel on its way to the

international space station was lost in the skies on wednesday as search operation is underway with those thought the craft may have burned up in the atmosphere but they're still concerned that some toxic materials may have come down on earth. has this report. the problems occurred for this mission around five minutes after the launch when one of the booster rockets carrying the progress module failed resulted in the whole spacecraft breaking into several pieces and to sending it back towards earth they have cordoned off an area of southern siberia underneath where this incident took place now that cordoned off area is being tested for any toxic elements that could be there the progress module did have on board around one tons of toxic feel now scientists testing the rocks the soil and the water and preliminary 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 in the worst case scenario and extra so use rockets could be sent up to act as a second escape pod already one soyuz 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 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 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. one of their. a superstar football striker has arrived in russia to join north caucuses club i should say and you much come someone who's from cameroon and a four time african player of the year has agreed a reported salary of ten million euros a season correspondent medina got you know as details. to divert

the bubble gum 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. 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 a brutal crowd as 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 after one of the sport's most prolific goalscorers and yes this still assigning has put this region of russia the north caucasus into the soccer world spotlight this is the innate says. it seems that until recently few outside of russia had heard off but which is now making suarez had lines across

the globe and it's in this unlikely setting that i team of world soap a star is being built the story behind this transfer began in january when the darkest on the clock was bought by still a month getting him off 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's image in the process a handful of promising acquisitions followed among the legendary brazilian to found out about the cardless the current captain of the club the fact that one of the best wears in the world will be playing him there are some families. america very big impacts of the development of the game here in russia. i think it will give a very good image of rawson football because. he is one of the best players here is 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 only english club chelsea and transformed and level club into you opinion powerhouse i should have small enough has also ploughed his millions into english giants arsenal but this time the situation is different here is that that 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 superstar playing for russian clubs are asked common as telescopes like the question the artsy reporting from the north caucasus just turned twenty minutes past. the recap of our top stories in about ten minutes from now meanwhile our interview with yvonne de vito a member of a fact finding mission just back from libya stay with us for that. the

old. it's been described as the file chapter three gadhafi but was the end to the war in libya same as saying the the realisation now setting in that there still remains a little tough battle ahead we're joined now by yvonne de vito he's just come back from libya where you were compiling an independent dossier on what was happening on the ground as a thank you very much for joining us there you've been saying that it's because certainly here in italy the news reports about what was happening in libya were very confusing a lot of conflicting information secure tell us what you saw what you found was do

with this in mind that it went to libya on the twenty eighth of july and we came back on the seventh of august and we found a totally different situation because major was bombarding civilians and the bombings were not only carried out to military targets are not but they almost hit houses hospitals schools television centers and this was totally against the humanitarian reasons they said they were there for anyone i believe they were doing this to bring panic in the city that's why they were bombing the things that people use daily like places with food and essential activities like hospital i said that this was a very difficult period for muslims now because of ramadan and that is why they do time there in their house and went to tripoli and to the town and we saw huge protests with thousands of croaky dump with apartheid is turning out to go out and these demonstrations were not shown in italy. also visited to endure and since we were there and found a lot of women that were screaming at us asking why you were taliban for bombing us

what did we do why are you killing our children that was the main question when she did it on the same day they bombed the highlands and this house taught children were killed we tried to show the pictures of these children that were dead but apart from us no one else did i say except it seems that with our own noise visiting these places that were bombed we have so much material that press officers and journalists from little you gave to as i said just a mini two hundred from the nato bombing this after all the things that i do still we have one question where is this a humanitarian they are they really helping the civilians better because i believe that all this is because of economic reason money or at least there are other reasons why this more happened the trolley are. also visited libya before us and what we found was a normal situation where people were finding differently from other countries that went through a revolution living is considered to be the student of the african continent and is very rich and school of the three for the people and on hospitals are for exactly

that and the conditions for women are much better than in other arab countries ok that you've personally megadeath yourself in a number of occasions what you think post war and post gadhafi libya is going to look like your own television stations are showing people fighting and demonstrating against gadhafi i personally saw many people demonstrating. i don't know why so many journalists are not sharing that because they're manipulating the situation and have a sort of money independent media show these videos on the internet because there is no freedom from what we saw personally one where in libya from the documents he thought we saw the rebels as disorganized groups others other fizzles the people that the rebels coming to power will prefer a continuation of the volatile situation a bit queer i would. leave that the rebels will not be able to do a good job after gadhafi among them there are many groups israel left tunisia but i

don't know why they are there al-qaeda rebels from libya the just you wanted to change it but there is too much as organization to make of the majority of people were included were very afraid to imagine that iraq was could take power because they think that they are not able to govern the country or to take control of the proper way the chiefs of these groups the rebels are politician was former politicians that before while with gadhafi and then to completely change their fate they went with the wind as they say in italy when we talk of the nato mission for humanitarian reasons do you think that justification for the war in libya stands up to scrutiny. and i believe it's not a valid justification because most of the targets were civilian wire and many people say the people were targets on purpose to create panic on the ground how much of a discrepancy did you see a look on between what later was saying or you're saying i think there's many many discrepancies every day the first day that nato bombed a civilian target i apologize to be saying it was

a mistake but the day after they kept bombing civilian targets and when the libyan government was asking why are you bombing civilians and they too were denying it saying it was gadhafi compound that wasn't true or you saw it this is being described by years a war if this is a nation how much of that did you see on the ground who can see still how much the media are manipulating the situation when they say that gadhafi sons have been arrested was this turns out to be untrue the reports that all of tripoli have been taken over by the robbers and this also appears on true a friend of ours who is a businesswoman who lives in tripoli and all of the created a commission to make an investigation into the facts of what happened in libya she told me she found some journalists who were making false reports saying that the rebels were behind them when in. fact the city behind them was empty we saw pictures of green squat that is completely full of rubble is that if you compare

those pictures to other pictures of green square it's completely different it seems like a set was created on patmos to make the public think that tripoli will stay can over by the rebels and the gadhafi family was dead with things this isn't meant to tactic because they want people to think that rebels have taken power and i believe they're doing this because nato has an hari to show days before the start of the focused because they don't want to have to provide the financing for the other thing is amongst the people that the rebels coming to power will prefer a continuation of the volatile situation this was not a popular demonstration but a huge military action against gadhafi i think off to gadhafi to have a very difficult a mate who won't leave the national transitional council to govern as they have put a lot of money into this so probably they will want some about power and to be in charge that there was just an excuse or justification that they want to help the people who will continue to take control of the city.

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friday morning here in moscow this is all a t. with you twenty four hours a day top stories this isolated heavy fighting still reported in tripoli as the hunt continues for colonel gadhafi rebel forces are also advancing on the colonel's hometown of sirte meanwhile italy pledges to release a billion dollars to help run libya. western states call for tougher sanctions against the syrian regime but. the government crackdown is hard to verify. a search and recovery operation is underway in siberia for an unmanned space supply craft that never reached the international space station. well that's it for me today about a she'll be here in less than half an hour as the news continues here in a lottie butt.