so to. nato bombs target more market after using bunker in his hometown in libya despite claims the coalition is not involved in helping rebels hunt the colonel down concerns grow over who will get their hands on the country's a weapons of mass destruction and he isn't even rebels then he needs. to try to establish full control over the city and over the country for more joining this notion of from tripoli in just a few moments. gloomy forecasts for economic growth in france that's why the country announcing new austerity measures of twelve billion euros in cuts tax hikes for the rich. the republican votes for a new president and much of the country lying in ruins after years of struggling to

maintain independence from georgia. now it's seven o'clock on a friday night here at moscow this is r.t. with me roll reception british charts a fire to cruise missiles that colonel gadhafi controlled bunker in his hometown of sirte becomes it despite his previous denials that it would assist rebels in the hunt for the libyan leader and u.n. calls to arrest the leader are not to kill him he's here from washington now reports from. gadhafi still remains the goal number one for the rebels and since the beginning of the promotion here in the libyan capital of tripoli we've been hearing numerous reports and we've been hearing numerous statements by the leaders of the rebels that they know could of his whereabouts first as you remember they've announced that they've captured captured say from islam gadhafi his son and then it

turns out that he actually hasn't been captured then we've been receiving information that the rebels know where gadhafi is here in tripoli and they live inside but they foreigners khadafi and in had winds on many international news channels for quite a while but it actually didn't with any concrete details you can create a success and to tell you as well we are receiving reports that the rebels have flooded the streets of tripoli trying to hunt down qaddafi what we saw were driving from the tunisian libyan border to the capital tripoli differs a lot from what we used to see here in libya in june and july when the western part of the country had been controlled by cut off his forces and you leave his flags. waving everywhere and all the buildings all the walls covered with profit is saying

in arabic english and french are welcome to new libya welcome to freely meanwhile reminders of the recent battles everywhere we've seen many bandon tanks burned cars the only road actually was a good feeling that the rebels are the only people left in the because of the cities we've been driving through loot abandoned amps like ghost cities and the rebels are now facing many many problems the litter is of the rebels have repeatedly been talking about elections and constitution changes but actually that still it's not easy because there is a huge problem in libya structure this country is home to at least two thousand tribes and the one who. wants to control to this country to have good relations. rebels are facing financial problems because the country's economy infrastructure has been badly affected following six months of fighting as far as we know un planned to release one point five millions of dollars in aid to help the rebels

to be built this. country meanwhile there are skeptics who are saying already that the rebels are not well organized the very challenge and will be very hard difficult to control exactly where this money goes and whether this money goes to actually what was supposed to go and actually this is not the only concern about. tripoli a city in chaos there's constant gunfire both aggressive and celebration and on the outskirts of the capital stockpiles of chemical weapons nature you know very little about the people who might come to power in tripoli so now if you've got this cache of weapons of mass destruction and again people really don't know what's there and if this is falling into the hands of certain people i mean the situation is potentially disastrous despite the heavy presence of rebels in tripoli the chemical

stockpile appears still to be in the hands of plots left of these governments that's both good and bad news following a series of meetings in two thousand and three moammar gadhafi agreed to allow weapons inspectors into libya the first step towards abandoning his w m d program in return for a normalizing of relations with the u.k. and u.s. they agreed that he wouldn't use all moved the material but now thanks in part to nato in support of the rebels he's on the back foot and may feel he has nothing to lose by disregarding that agreement please. cry victory or martyrdom will strike an ominous note to those who know his weapons potential given the violations of. national territory of libya by needle led rebel forces i think that the idea that he would be beholden to these types of. grievance would be off the table of his

point and certainly he was called it as seen in early july that he would be willing to go to europe if tripoli was attacked so i think it's a fair assumption to say that if there is no capability that he would be looking at that option at this point. but the alternative rebel control of chemical weapons is arguably worse according to many some of the rebel factions have links to al qaida or of commentator abdel bari atwan says the west got itself into this trouble and now it has to decide how it will figure it out and the. attractive we know that. the people who are fighting muslim extremists how do you call is that we could deal with those people remove all of i believe there. would be more proper i'm a big fan. of it there are some indications nato is considering putting peacekeeping troops on the ground in libya regional experts warn that could be seen

by parts of the free libya movement as an act of aggression but having supported the rebel movement need to must now deal with the consequences even if that's w m d islamic extremists lore and it's all a team of. the rebels prepared to receive a new tranche of money from the u.n. a history professor at oxford university mark on draws parallels with how the cash was handed out in iraq and afghanistan. there. libya not entirely sure who controls there as the. lead rebel national transitional council has had much fun actually and in libya was actually in places like qatar or america or rome and paris and so we're going to have the. right place in the voice for many of the really are those some high profile folks and look in the character and it hurts a lot i want to get off his experience to the shadowy figures and i'm afraid we

will do so because i also told you from experience in iraq and afghanistan what that means that all of us went missing should we really send in cash and this is what we're talking about large wads of cash to benghazi without being there exactly who's going to count for it how it's going to be spent. there are worries between those who want in against the bills who turn against recently but also because business in the west of action in tripoli who. deserve the almost all of the wars going in and who are suspicious of the people from benghazi who got a lot of diplomatic recognition early on don't necessarily have much of a reputation for tough fighting into even now after all they've hardly been a little dance very hard westwood's. i think was a lot of trouble waiting to happen and people who say it's not like rocks in many places and maybe it's always a problematic situation we face in iraq in two thousand and three. now you can express your opinion on the situation in libya by going to our web site and

supporting in our latest poll of i check out the south right now is today we're asking what's coming up next for the libyan people so far almost a half believe quote they face a slow war for years to come but the prediction power and all in their hands time to line the pockets is second the second most popular response and some of you say that people amounts will take it from here but a full victory is going to r.t. dot com to cast your vote. thousands of people have once again taken to the streets across syria in protest against president bashar al assad's regime at least a protesters were reportedly killed in crackdown on demonstrators on thursday let's get the details now live from our recluse grow in the syrian capital so what details can you tell us about what's happening on the ground right now. well as you said thousands of people have taken to the streets in syria this has become sort of a friday custom for the past five months for people after their friday prayers to

come out on the streets and protest their regime from what we know so far is that the majority of the protests have been happening in remote districts of syria not particularly in the mass this itself although there have been seven arrests there as well today and yesterday for example most of the protests with up to two thousand people out in the streets have been taking place in cities bordering. cities in regions bordering syria. syria and turkey of course you have to remember that on thursday the most prominent political cartoonist in syria has been severely beaten by armed men and now it is assumed that those men were from. the governmental allegiance groups and of course that has spurred a large wave of protests the cartoonist is now in hospital and of course a lot of people are saying that this has been something that the government has been doing but of course the government is saying that they're the crackdowns which

they have been carrying out with with thousands of people dying in the process the reason for the crackdown is the government says it's because there have been armed groups infiltrating syria from a very southern countries including places like iraq or saudi arabia and they say those armed groups are behind are behind those for protesting against the change of the regime now we did speak to some people who would not talk to us on camera who did say that fortunately there is some grain of truth to that that the armed gangs which the government of stopping about sort of develop this strategy when they come behind the protesters who are protesting. the current regime and they start shooting and then. the armed forces the police are starting to shoot back as a result you have these protesters who are stuck in between a rock and a hard place and they're the ones dying and this is this is what's happening

according to those people who have been to the protests and also into the policemen who do not like i said who do not want to talk on camera so in fact the situation in syria is very volatile it's basically hanging by a thread because unfortunately and this is the cries for change of government and its cries for reforms to be implemented unfortunately there is also. violence which is starting to come up and is starting to shine through unfortunately there has been a lot of religious tension in the country as of late and this is a country which is not used to that so what we're facing right now at this point is is a pos is the possibility of a few now there are a libyan scenario breaking out and this middle eastern country serving as you say to the revolution seems to be escalating without a bit of ethnic violence but let's talk about the bigger picture here president assad to come under heavy international condemnation of the crackdown so what's been the response from damascus. well like i said the government insists that the

measures that they are taking are absolutely necessary because of the armed groups and like we also mentioned earlier that groups do seem to be in place plus. the what the government says is obviously not enough to convince the international the international observers and everybody else of over the world that what they're actually trying to solve the situation gets they have done away with the emergency rule which has been in place since the sixty's since serious confrontation with israel but there's more that needs to be done a lot of people are just days of the need of jobs they need greater freedoms they need. more human rights which they say are being violated and obviously the crackdowns which have been happening the this standoff between the government and the people of this standoff which is being enforced by the police and the armed forces is not doing enough in order to convince the international society. leaders that the president and the government are actually in control of the situation it looks like they're just they're trying to suppress the boiling of the people and

the country at the same time you have a lot of people here for are absolutely perfectly fine with the regime because they are afraid should the current regime the current regime be god. the country will enter chaos and primarily the chaos will be based on it really just intolerance because because at this point we have because my that the groups the religious minorities are being taken care of christians and others but it is should not go away a country where more than seventy percent of population are sunni muslims may be facing total mayhem in terms of in terms of religious balance so the government of course is saying that they're trying and they're trying and will bring forth changes which the which the population is calling for but the international society isn't convinced. and the u.s. has implemented sanctions against the country which prompted various so promptly

basically the shut down of credit card use all across the country we have actually encountered we basically have to go to another country in order to get some money out of the brain machine we've seen lines of people people are lining up by automatic telling machines by the banks trying to get some cash out and that of course is not working so whether or not those sanctions will actually bring forth any any fruits in this regard is yet to be seen as you're alluding to earlier could still be early days yet into resolving this conflict that is really going to go live from damascus thank you. all the way here on our to the new president but i would vote in the public because you are expecting from the new leader who will succeed the late president but how. europe's spreading a debt crisis is threatening to draw in front of the government announces new austerity measures about concerns it could lose its aaa credit rating the new

deficit reducing package will see some twelve billion euros worth of cuts across a three percent tax hike for the rich because i don't know bush explains the move could be too little too late but fears that social unrest is just around the corner . france enjoys a triple a credit rating for now put it one of the choices debt ratios among the world's top rated states many investors bet on it to follow the u.s. and be downgraded just repaying interest on its debt this year has overtaken education and defense as the government's biggest spend was just mr sir cause he's presided over the biggest jump and get levels in our history books the courage to much water. france is going to put their tolerance limits it's a prime minister i see explained to you rolled up spending cuts this week but economists fear things so bad those cuts go nowhere near enough you can compare it

with people saying we're going to buy a lumber genie and the only buy a porsche and they call that austerity doctors want for all these huge debts burden is really truly called reverse mint in schools and hospitals. and. computers. are old fashioned. out of the situations explosive say experts and frauds could be next to witness roy it's like those in britain with deprived regions the likely the inner part of cities in the suburbs. are socially segregated very high stand for more so. or in germany so yes unrest come from the suburbs and spread through nicolas sarkozy's flying

a fall from france as he chatted over budget they teased pacific island of new caledonia with students planning street protests over the cuts he's left the job of presenting them to his prime minister he'll let them take their. four and hopefully unions students. can march directly in protest against their ministers while he's behaving in a certain song because these absence in this time of crisis writes leading newspaper le figaro may be clever politically but his failure to tackle because she's troubles now could be creating even greater problems for the future of. our team. meanwhile the world markets took in stride the new u.s. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke you said that no new steps will be introduced to push the economy let's get some more details on this cross live to our business one on one here in the marina not exactly what the markets were hoping for oh no

not what they were hoping for part but they are making a comeback u.s. stocks are already trading in the black and russian markets ended their trade in session on a positive note as well and of course yes investors didn't hear what they wanted which was a third round problem on the princess but ben bernanke you didn't rule it out he did say that they would consider it in september and we'll have all of you tell us right here in our business program for early. all right so you shorting arena now let's get to our world update here on our season headlines from around the world this hour first to nigeria where a large explosion has struck the u.n. complex in the capital of a buddha leaving at least sixteen people dozens of injured have been taken to hospital witnesses say a suicide bomber drove through the security gates in a car laden with explosives and smash into the building last happened in the same area where the u.s. embassy and other diplomatic posts are located police say is the longest militants could be deployed. to pounce prime minister has formally announced his resignation

paving the way for the country's leader in five years this move follows a nationwide criticism of its response to the devastating earthquake and tsunami that took place in march and triggered a nuclear crisis in a plot between a natural disasters claimed the lives of more than fifteen thousand people with survivors complaining about slow recovery efforts and you leader of the ruling democratic party who will most likely become japan's next prime minister will be chosen on monday. at least fifty three people have been killed in an arson attack at a casino in the mexican city of monterrey gunman burst into the venue sprayed it with fuel and set on fire around one hundred staff and customers were present at the time many people were trapped inside and ended up choking on the smoke authorities suspect of the attack which was one of the deadliest for several years was connected to organized crime. it's a big day for the little republic of a which is electing a new leader following the death of its president. passed away in may having our

latest country for more than six years in a struggle to retain hard won independence from georgia but it is in the capital for us covering the presidential vote. three candidates have stepped in to try and take his place the vice president the prime minister and the former vice president all of them at the moment strong contenders it's not known whether there is a lead contender at the moment as far as russia is concerned russia plays a big role here with helping to maintain the stability of the region they say that none of those no those kinds of this really are a very empty russian all very particularly over pro russian they wouldn't really have a problem with any of those kinds of it's having having one so it's yet to be seen what will happen tomorrow as to who will win this whole contest watched or so many international observers at the moment cause is independence it's recognized by only

five countries in the world but there are representatives of twenty seven countries here to watch these elections some indication perhaps of the interest in the elections here and also of the fact that georgia's calls for people were observers not to cover what these elections georgia still considers. to be part of its territory for an on on some death is twenty seven countries worth of death is we talked to one of those foreign observers earlier a representative of the swiss. when i was invited to. have. a very quick reaction from georgia who says oh no don't go zero but my impression is good it can be exactly support what you're doing here you know because you're fighting for your syringe you have to independence in the press he appreciates the context

of this country now is that people are fighting for the freedom torture still claims cause the south the second is that he's to be part of georgia and so technically at least there is still a threat a military threat to the into. all of this small corpus is for the public there's also five thousand russian troops helping to protect our cause so in both the sense of its territorial integrity and in terms of its economic strength the country has a long way to go it's hope that the next president will go a long way towards fulfilling those dreams. report now for more news our stories and videos just go to our website of course i'd like to compare a couple of items reading for you on line there right now the prosecution for the case of alleged arms a dealer victor boot suffers a serious blow a judge rules the statements the russian made before his extradition to the u.s. worker was. also in line for you to the core read about the symbolism

some people are drawing into the news that the washington monument the world's tallest opulence was cracked when i should be eastern seaboard all. right out of the business with a very. well i'm. here on the markets have been waiting with bated breath for the chairman of the federal reserve to outline how he would rescue the u.s. economy and location the world economy ben bernanke his speech from jackson hole proved to be and inside climax he signaled knowing the moves and that the fed would not be cranking out the prince of prices for three of the last wrong or the last

strategist capital believes bernanke did a good job. he failed to disappoint by the pace of this timely altavista given that the given of the the world's financial markets have really been focusing on this speech now for most of his week to get it just about right and i don't leave markets moving very rapidly in one direction of the other is probably the balance you want to get actually i think they're going to switch should look to where the problem really exists right now which is in europe so they'll be watching europe next week and to see whether markets in europe continue to react as badly as they have been in recent weeks if that happens then without standing behind to make some positive statements and i think you could see some further weakness of the markets what mr bernanke he was pointing out in the speech actually is that now you need to see something more from the government from fiscal policy you need to see help with mortgages in the u.s. you need to see structural reforms is not enough just to print dollars and help the

hope that by printing more dollars you're going to print your way out of the current the current mess the problem in the u.s. these fiscal and structural and i think that's where mr bernanke is hoping that the governor will now focus. part let's take a look at the markets or oil prices are down despite fears that hurricane irene could this truck refinery production on the east coast over the last and after a steep thirty six hours selloff in the gold market process not always stuck between gains and losses on monday it reached a record high of ninety one hundred dollars per ounce and this was followed by a fluke day correction. pull over and then you want to start lower ahead of time for ninety minutes only call they need but they are now limits and losses investors have also been reacting to all this thing allan consumer sentiment which turned out to be slightly higher but still shows a lack of faith in the economy. and the european stocks are recovering some of

their losses as the fed chairman said the central. and has tools if necessary to bolster the economy. and the cycle of what's happening if you're ever on. both the arts yes and the my sex clothes the trade in session poses of territory there we go we can see actually we're having a bit of an issue with our graphics but that actually posed a threat in session of course it's a. let's take a look at some individual moves on the my sex fertilizer acro on game day after it almost tripled forest half net profits we all still make or m.k. was down the company post the person million dollar that profit in the second quarter of the year well below expectations and the other still major civil still is in the red after posting a sixteen percent rise in second quarter profits and also below forecast. brochures export duty on oil will increase six dollars to four hundred forty four

dollars per its home in september on thursday prime minister putin has also signaled brushless new poll that export duty of regime this is intended to increase investment in refining and help avoid a repetition of the fuel storage there's seen earlier this year. and russia's biggest problem a gas producer novacek has got a license to develop new fields in siberia analysts estimate that the poles it's a can say that at least a trillion cubic meters of natural gas companies already represented in the region word jointly runs an elegy project with gas. and that's all the business news for now for more stories you can head to our websites or to dot com slash business the headlines are next in gory. to.

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