international news live from moscow this is aussie with me thanks for joining us indeed the fighting continues in tripoli after gadhafi add another radio message claiming he's fighting on the front line meanwhile the national transitional council says it needs five billion dollars to provide stability in the country the united states and south africa reach an agreement that allows the u.n. to release one and billion dollars in frozen funds that has more now on the international funding. we've heard on the back of the information released today when the italian government met with the head of the rebel council mark me to brill that happened just behind me in this building here earlier today and we had the announcement that italy plans to release half a billion dollars of phrase to live in assets and we then heard that the rebels had apparently been able to make a kit that they then heard from his spokesman gadhafi spokesman saying that that wasn't the case and then we've heard that there's a good duffey himself releasing information and 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 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 today with this money being released by a slave 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 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 ingrained over the past couple of days talking some people about this. will to the hearts of most motor was and you'll strike oil whether or not that sayings true when it comes to libya will 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 the torah. or to rebel to ordinary. living government interesting to restart show me how this possible is stranger to the concept of friends with benefits berlusconi's being quick to casey up to the new transitional council inviting the public face of the group brill to italy the. closest european allies when the nato bombing campaign began back in april up the

switch sides 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 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 with 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 tunisian people. disorganized. and many chiefs of these groups of rebels not from the politicians with gadhafi and then they completely change their face with the wind as they send it to me i think corrupt politicians

and it will make gadhafi personally on a number of occasions three business directions less than a month ago she would turn 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 referred. he was talking just two months before the libyan uprising alessi case on. why did you join our enemies without any tips. or investigation but escaping now seems to be if we make any friends it was that maybe the final chapter the death thing any good conflict for continuing i would dare to see them going down you can talk to him for which he's among the rebels so there is no arts. consensus no consensus talking to me and in general.

meeting who will be actually the person to talk to. who will be her 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 this because of the rainfall the lack of friendship there. american political journalists alexander called back and says nato has initial aid to save civilians resulted instead in schools of deaths and an uncertain future what libya can really look forward to is a very prolonged period of instability probably growing inequality and the loss of what benefits the less wealth in libya of which they certainly did have in the gadhafi era and i didn't if you could say anything conclusive about the history of libya prarie long time nature was simply you know engaged in the effort of getting rid of gadhafi by whatever means possible so-called humanitarian intervention it's

very hard to see. you know what is it ten thousand sixteen thousand graves in libya can be justified as humanitarian i think it gives gives a message get nuclear weapons look like north korea then they're going to invade you. america in the you are pushing for a fresh round of sanctions against syria russia and china are both against external interference in the country's domestic affairs but have called for an end to the violence in the country meanwhile it has been reported at least twenty five protesters have been killed in the past two days over two thousand people are believed to have been killed in syria since march but as aussies marie at the notion of reports what's really going on is hot there i began to walk walk in the morning 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 arsons 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 i 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 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 real. foreign journalist in fact finding missions from coming in and they don't allow us to work they cannot just take your camera and go filming even here in damascus and you should and i would never wait till the government made a statement there are ten million reporters in the country and 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 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 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 he tries to reveal the truth of another kind. of. confirmation about what's going on there always is there are some armed forces on the ground that are going to billions while. most of the cities that you are the forces are killing.

unarmed. civilians and went out to broach the need 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 you go. during the process because he was filming it was the only one who was starting. to approach this and the reserves were arrested syrian state t.v. brings their evidence to support their leader. would be cheerful mother crying over her body apparently dead they said that was in the homes but here at the same picture indeed that was made in the iraq in two thousand and nine they condemn the said but they just play. one of the most oppressive regimes in the world food and 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 right to the western world to grab any story and put it as true but that doesn't look to be among the media's goals and this conflict the press is not just about coverage it's a war and as in every war the goal is to win refuse to damascus syria. this is c.n.n. still ahead this hour a new star from russian football in finland tops trying to leave but the biggest paper in the game in just a few moments. russia's prime minister has ordered a major overhaul of safety checks on the country's rockets that after nine months

pay three questions to russia on wednesday a search operation is currently underway with after that saying the crowd might have burned up in the atmosphere but they're still concerned that some toxic materials made come down enough. that. the problems occurred for this mission around five minutes after the launch when one of the booster rockets carrying the progress module failed resulted in the whole spacecraft breaking into several pieces and descending 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 the half 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 these 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 an extra soyuz rocket 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 load to have been sent out 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 time. it's unfun the fourth that's a kid in the last nine months now a full investigation the house being old and 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 is 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 it's now what we are hearing from cosmos though is that they are fully committed to providing every single bit of the supply network which they said they could give to the i.s.a.'s now for more on how this incident a could and what it means for those on board the international space station we can now hear from my colleague chillan thomas what we know is that stage three failed to ignite which is the stage that propels it further into space stages one into both ignite at the same time at the actual time of launch but then there are sensors that communicate with the third stage of the rocket which you can see here and it's that third stage which propels the progress craft up out of the earth's

atmosphere so that it can be in orbit and then synchronize with the international space station in terms of what does this mean for the international space station and the crew on board we should note that there is no routine to space flight there's always an inherent danger but there is no immediate threat to the crew on board right now because they have enough supplies right now we are told that they have about three months of regular supplies left as well as an additional emergency thirty day supply of food and water and necessary items for every crew member on board. some of the stories making headlines around the world not to try pleaded not guilty during a pretrial hearing at the international tribunal for the former yugoslavia on thursday the ags both me and said c'mon days accused of killing almost eight thousand bosnians a tribe or need say one thousand nine hundred ninety five his lawyers claim that sixty nine year old client is still able to stand trial the hearing comes to days

after goran hardage the water time leader of rebel serbs in croatia pleaded not guilty to crimes against humanity. a state of emergency has been declared in four u.s. states as the hurricane irene nears the country's east coast also he's in new york have ordered the evacuation of people from low lying districts while in north carolina around two hundred thousand people have already fled early in the week irene back to the bahamas and the caribbean with winds gusting to almost two hundred kilometers but our meteorologists say irene is a once in a generation. but it seems that crucial say two militants have been killed in a string of rocket attacks this comes after school palestinians were killed during as tried to state the israeli military say that strikes in retaliation to shelling from gaza the sides have been exchanging daily fire despite announcing a cease fire this week. so pissed off with both strikers down the aisle at zero has

arrived in moscow thursday to join north caucasus club. reports the newcomers salary at around four hundred thousand euros a week making him the world's highest paid player however as a cultural reports it's not the money that made it into the middle. to divert the above to go much and 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 today behind flying in to join new club. i'm starting from scratch i want all the trophies possible in europe as a player and here i can start a new plus i've played little bridge across before and he told me a lot about russian feeble and i do not forward to joining the team at zero is a 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 goalscorers and

yes this stellar signing has split of 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 sports had lines across the globe and its inverse unlikely setting that i team of world service stars is being built the story behind this trial began in january when the darkest on the clock was bought by sally month giving him of a locally born businessman and one of the richest men in russia he found to turn gene into 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 where's in the world will be playing him there are some remember well. america are very big on but in practice it's

a good development told for all of the game here in russia. i think it would give a very good image of ross and thoughtful because sam is one of the best paired sinclair's here is not the star of the boss the russian money in european football is nothing new back in two thousand and three russian businessman that i'm on the bottom which bought english club chelsea and transformed a mid-level club into a 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 a bit as 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 superstar splaying for russian clubs are asking women as goals mice no question the r.t. reporting from the north caucasus europe to date i'll be back with a recap our top stories in about ten minutes in the meantime it's our interview

with iran de vito a member of that fact finding mission just back from libya stay with us for the. 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 whilst you were there on that we 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 television centers and this was totally against the humanitarian reasons they said they were funny or 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 essentially tell it is like hospital i said that this was a very difficult period for muslims now because of ramadan and that is why the daytime during the housing went to tripoli and to the town and we saw huge protests

with thousands of croaky dopy supporters turning. to get a male child and all of 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 why you would turn in for bombing us with what we do why are you killing our children that was the main question when she did it on the same day they bombed the heils and this house taught children were killed while we tried to show the pictures of these children the two are 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 offices and journalists from little you gave to us as destiny to anyone who died 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 that's because i believe that all this is because of economic reason money or at least there are other reasons why there's more happening to truly on the run of these requests and 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 as a liberal is considered to be the stewards and of the african continent and is very rich and school of the three for his people and on hospitals are for him for 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 you're on is 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 a bit 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 when 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 probably. a continuation of the volatile situation a bit queer i believe that the rebels will not be able to do a good job after gadhafi among them there are many groups is my message to media that 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 we interviewed were very afraid to imagine that iran 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 actually 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 one and many people

say the people were targets on purpose to create panic on the ground how much of the discrepancy did you see a look on between what later was saying or you're saying i think that's many many discrepancies every day the first day nato bombed a civilian target i polished 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 need to we're denying it saying it was gadhafi compound that wasn't true you saw it this is being described by years a war of distance summation 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 the gadhafi sons have been arrested was this tank out to be untrue the reports that all of tripoli have been taken over by the robbers and this also comes on truly. a friend of ours who is a businesswoman who lives in tripoli and one 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. we're making false reports saying that the rebels were behind them when in fact the city behind them was empty we saw pictures of green square that is completely full of rebels but if you compare those pictures to other pictures of her in square it's completely different it seems like a set was created on patmos to make the public think that all of tripoli was taken over by the rebels and all the gadhafi family was dead was saying this isn't meant to tactic because they want people to think that the rebels have taken power and i believe they're doing this because nato has an a hari to shell days before the start of the focused because they don't want to have to provide for the financing for the rule other says 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 after gadhafi to

a very difficult and major one leave the national transitional council to govern as they have put a lot of money into this process so probably they will want some of that power and to be in charge that there was just an excuse or justification that they want to help the people they will continue to take control of the city.

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this is a check of the headlines. isolated heavy fighting still reported in treated tripoli as the hunt continues for gadhafi rebel forces are also advancing on the cannolis hometown of sirte meanwhile the united nations have set to vote on unfreezing one point five billion dollars of seized projects. also while the you're on the u.s. push for harsher sanctions against syria's president assad twenty five people are reported to have been killed by security forces but some journalists question to put it used to highlight the government's bond and climb down over the last five months they say have been staged. also as recovery operations underway in eastern russia for a possible one month space freighter that failed to reach its orbit on the.