come. join the. ranks of the. moscow. nato bombs targeting moammar gadhafi concrete his hometown in libya despite claims the coalition is not involved in helping rebels hunt the colonel down says concerns grow over who will get their hands on the country's weapons of mass destruction. in the giving up its hope sending such units to hundreds of kentucky while the strikes establish the full control of the city and over the country and for more we're joined the marines notion of from cheap leap in just a few moments. away from fresh anti-government fury erupts in syria as more of this forces respond with crackdowns claiming they're fighting saboteurs. gloomy forecast for economic growth and from this despite the country announcing new austerity measures of twelve billion euro cuts and tax hikes for the rich. and

the republicans have cause your vote for a new president with much of the country lying in ruins after years of struggling to maintain independence from georgia our top stories this hour. international news and comment live from my headquarters in moscow where it's now just past nine pm and seven pm in libya where british tornado jets have thought of cruise missiles colonel gadhafi his command and control bunker in his hometown of sirte it comes despite nato his previous denials that it would assist rebels in the hunt for the libyan leader and u.n. calls to arrest the leader. reports now from tripoli. gadhafi still remains the goal number one for the rebels and since the beginning of the curation here in the libyan capital of tripoli we've been hearing numerous reports and we've been here

in 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 a full islam could have 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 that they've cornered khadafi and they spin headlines. many international news channels for quite a while but it actually didn't end with any concrete detail and concrete success and today you as well we are receiving reports that the rebels have flooded the streets of tripoli trying to hunt down khadafy what we saw while driving from the tunisian libyan border to the capital tripoli differs a lot from what we used to see here in june and july when the western part of the country had been controlled by kentucky's forces new leaders 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 via meanwhile reminders of the recent battles everywhere we've seen many bands and tanks burned cars actually we've also got a feeling that the rebels are the only people left in the because of the cities we've been driving through loot abandoned and to like go to cities and the rebels are now facing many many problems. litter is the rebels have repeatedly been talking about elections and constitution changes but actually that's that's not easy because if there is a huge problem in the structure this country is home to at least two thousand tribes and financial problems because the country's economy is structured. have been badly affected following six months of fighting but as far as we know un pledged to release one point five millions of dollars in aid to help the rebels

to rebuild this. country meanwhile there are skeptics who are saying already that will be 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 the rebels. tripoli a city in chaos there's constant gunfire both aggressive and celebrate three and on the outskirts of the capital stockpiles of chemical weapons nato know very little about the people who might come to power in. tripoli you know if you've got caches of weapons of mass destruction then 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 what's left of these government 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. but he wouldn't use all move the material but now thanks in part to nato support of the rebels he's on the back foot and may feel he has nothing to lose by disregarding that agreement he's cry victory or martyrdom will strike an ominous note to those who know his weapons given the violations of. national territory of libya by needle and rebel forces i think that the idea that he would be to hold most of these types of. grievance would be off the table of his point and certainly he was quoted as saying you know early in july that he would be willing to strike

out in 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 an option at this point and 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. it's trouble now it has to decide how it will figure it out and the options aren't attractive we knew that the majority of the people who are fighting critical of muslim extremists or how they could deal with those people are very model of clinical benefit i believe. would be more problematic than that. there are some indications nato is considering putting keeping troops on the ground in libya regional experts warned 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 armed islamic extremists. the next we cross to joseph he's a middle east expert talking to us live from geneva joseph thanks for being with us now as you just heard skeptics are raising concern over who will get access to libya's weapons of mass destruction washington has also admitted it cannot guarantee the arsenals will end up in the right hands just how dangerous could this be for libyans and indeed further afield i'm thinking here of revenge attacks against nato countries for example. right and here we are facing a tradition. where it's not clear what's happening on the field now isn't this the. rule. regime is ended and they thought i'm being calm about are you should getting in in the streets of people in other areas of the

media but are we in the same climb we can or. do you didn't pollution is only nomics going to we are in need be a position the libyan opposition. is a multitude of different groups you have the muslim brotherhood your father. who most of. the how do you need english and in the indian conditional national council was literally we're not sure yet it's believed to decide this book it's a victory because the good the. newly done delusion and the more so that national transitional council as its very definition transitional is mainly paving the way to not fall elections in the future i mean clearly that's a way where the libyan people themselves could question the n.t. see if mitt. then if it is true. what are you going to.

do you are not going to. receive any amount of money how money is going to be how and who. was going to go or do you get what you. are going to be in any person only if you. get there and had room for all of the little during the revolution the links were the working. and we were the first ones who are in invention. now the the opposition promised as a hand over power to an elected body as we were just talking about within eight months so i figured that has actually gone but that's quite a long time i suppose it is a long time in terms of politics but how long do you think it will take for libya

to return to some state of normalcy and stability. how do we do that how do we define insists that it doesn't exist and that is the degree the issue is going to be depending on how he and needs. to gear this condition the share the power or not because of the luck in. alone for a few on the personalities on the cards that we only know through. the existing group has been dismissed of what is the t.n.c. is going to do i mean with the people they have coming to be politically not they have to include people from the words in the video which is not in the is mostly concentrated in the. side of this and it lead to this slide. and they have to go next and they have to brush or leadership of the d.n.c.

even lucian in their hands and not in the end of the nato or nato. countries or i just want to quickly ask you finally you talk about nato and western countries now i understand we were just talking to. a little earlier one of our analysts he's been involved in work over the draft of a new libyan constitution he told us that that would be based on shari'a law now how concerned would the west and those nato countries be over that element. i mean it would never have been an issue if we're going to use a little bit. in the world. i mean you have different views. oh. it's more of the new issue. and the issue needs of the world and our allies is getting us.

probably within. this do. you need for the revolution. the economy moving and political interests joseph will have to leave it there thanks very much for your time joseph the middle east expert or just live there for switzerland on the web cam thank you very much. well of course you can express your opinion on the situation the developing situation in libya by going to our website that's online at the moment and participating in our latest poll at some of the conscripts and see what the results are so far well today we're asking what's coming up next for the libyan people something i've just been talking to joseph about what so far almost half believe they face a slow war for years to come the prediction and on their hands times in line pockets is the second most popular sport and something you say that diplomats will take it from here in the victory is near log on to our feet dot com to cast your

vote. turning to syria now where thousands of people are once again taking to the streets in protest against president bashar al assad's regime the government has responded with force allegedly killing a number of demonstrators. has the latest now from the syrian capital. the reason for the crackdown as the government says is 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 who are 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 just talking about have sort of developed the strategy of 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 of these protesters who are stuck in between a rock and

a hard place and they are the ones dying and this is this is what's happening according to those people who have been to the protests and also pointing to the policeman who did 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 admits the cries for reforms to be implemented unfortunately there is also a security and 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 as the possibility of been another a libyan scenario breaking out in this middle eastern country. well on the way here in r.t. picking the new president you can find out what the voters in the republic of cardiff are expecting from their new leader can succeed the late president about

which. the first europe's spreading debt crisis is threatening to draw in france as the government announces new austerity measures amid concerns it could lose its aaa credit rating and a deficit reducing package will see some twelve billion euros worth of cuts plus a three percent tax hike for the rich because artie's daniel bushell explains the move could be too little too late with fears social unrest is around the corner. france enjoys a triple a credit rating but now put one of the hoisted 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. mr causes presided over the biggest jump in debt levels in our history books that carry too much water since. france has gone above the tolerance limits admitted prime

minister your as he explained the new role of spending cuts this week but economists fear things are so bad those cuts go nowhere near enough me you can compare it with people saying. and the only buy a porsche and they call that austerity doctors warned france these huge good burden is bringing chronic underinvestment in schools and hospitals. getting. into. computers. very. old fashioned. out of the situations explosive say experts and frauds could be next to witness roy it's like those in britain with the proved regions like the inner part of cities in the suburbs. are essentially

segregated to stand far more so than in the u.k. or in germany so yes unrest could come from the suburbs and spread through nicolas sarkozy's flying a fall from france as he can all budget they tease 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 to let them take the. for hopefully unions students. can march directly and protest against their ministers while he's behaving in a certain because these absence in this time of crisis rights leading newspaper le figaro may be clear both politically but his failure to tackle the country's troubles no could be creating even greater problems for the future then you see paris meanwhile the world markets took in stride the news u.s. federal reserve chairman ben bernanke said that no new steps will be introduced to

boost the economy well let's cross live to our business test another woman is there not exactly what the markets were hoping for there was no no it wasn't bill investors were really looking forward to hear what ben bernanke there would have to say about how it would improve the u.s. economy and one of the measures they were looking forward to more is more money printing and even though i think they don't rule it out he did say that would consider it in september but for now it's a no and investors were looking forward to the markets improving and although they were disappointed markets a bit make a contact us stocks are now trading in the black the u.s. their european markets close on a negative note but russian forces also positive so they have made a bit of a contact so disappointing news part the markets out there from that we rebounded ok i'll have more of course in business sure thanks a lot really i will see you in about five or six minutes from now thanks a lot for more on that marina there. well more world news in brief for you at this

stage of the day it eighteen minutes past the hour first to nigeria in the world of things where at least sixteen people have been going after a car bomb attack outside the united nations main office in the capital of objects and dozens were injured and witnesses say a car drove through the security gates as guards tried to stop the vehicle and smashed into the building of the charges nearly four hundred employees at last happened in the same area where the u.s. embassy and other diplomatic posts are ok. police say islamic militants could be behind the. prime minister has formally announced his resignation paving the way for the country six leader in five years his move follows nationwide criticism of his response to the devastating earthquake and tsunami that took place a notch and triggered a nuclear crisis at the fukushima plant a twin natural disasters claimed the lives of more than fifteen thousand survivors complaining about slow recovery efforts a new leader of the ruling democratic party who will most likely become japan's next prime minister will be chosen on monday. to mexico now at least fifty

three people have been killed in an arson attack at a casino in the city of monterrey the government burst into the venue sprayed it with fuel and set it on fire around one hundred staff and customers were present at the time many people were trapped inside and choked on smoke authorities suspect the attack which was one of the deadliest for several years was connected to organized crime. seven states along the east coast of the u.s. including new york declared an emergency in anticipation of the arrival of hurricane irene hundreds of thousands of both locals and tourists have been evacuated from its path because the bombers urged americans to take precautions and to follow evacuation orders the storm traveling from the bahamas has already caused havoc in the caribbean the hurricane has weaken slightly on a friday but forceful winds of up to one hundred ten miles per hour still forecast . i go voting has come to a close in

a car which is electing a new leader following the death of its president. and passed away in may have left his country for more than sixty years in a struggle to retain hard won independence from georgia tom barton is in the carson capital for us. 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 well whether there is a lead contender at the moment as far as russia is concerned russia plays a big role here in helping to maintain the stability of the region they say that none of those most of those candidates really are a very m c russia know very particularly over pro russian they wouldn't really have a problem with any of those kind of those having having one so it's yet to be seen what what will happen tomorrow as to who will win this whole contest watched also

by many international observers at the moment our 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 certain georges calls the people for observers not to cover what she's elections georgia still considers. to be part of its territory for non on some deaf ears 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 can you please support what you're doing here you know because you're fighting for your. independence in the press he appreciates the context of this

country the people are fighting for the freedom georgia still claims of cars and self-assertive to the east to be part of georgia and so technically at least there is still a threat the military threat to the into. of this small caucus this republic 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 just remind you for more news stories and videos you can go to our website at www dot com here's what's on the line right now the prosecution the case of alleged russian arms dealer vick to boot suffers a serious blow as a judge rules that statements he made before his extradition to the u.s. were coerced. and also

a life you rush to the core read all the details in the news of the washington monument the world's tallest but it was a crack when a recent quake shook the eastern seaboard of america those stories and plenty of others at archie dot com. all these business bulletin the highs and lows of this friday marina is next. here on ars 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 the world economy but ben bernanke speech from jackson hole proved to be and i don't side climax the signal of knowing the moves and that the fat would

not be cranking up the plan some classes for q three never the last roll and the last investment strategist vernal capital believes according to a good job. if i failed to disappoint both the pace of this time the optimists and given that the given that the the world's financial markets are really been focusing on this speech now for most of this week to get it just about right and i would not leave markets moving very rapidly in one direction on the other was probably the balance you wanted to get actually i think they're going to switch a 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 going on piece standing behind to make some positive statements and i think you could see some further weakness of the markets what mr bernanke it 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 there's not enough just to print more dollars and help hope that by printing more dollars you're going to print your way out of the current the current mess the problem in the us is fiscal and structural and i think that's where. the governor will now focus. on a second look at the market so well prices are next this hour that's following fears hurricane irene could the stop and finally production on the east coast are his wife's. and gold is going slightly as the five points off talks of monetary easing so late september when they had to have her earlier traded as high as eighteen hundred dollars an ounce and that was in expectations ben bernanke with news that further economic stimulus in the u.s. economy. over in the u.s. stocks opened lower ahead of time by going to speech class they have now made a comeback and masters have also been reacting to all of us their own consumer

sentiment that's turned out to be slightly higher but it still shows how life afraid in the u.s. economy. over in europe stocks closed end there. they managed to recover some of the losses after the floods chairman said the central bank has those if necessary to pull sort of the economy let's take a look at what's happening here in russia well both the my sex and the arts u.s. close in the black b.r.c. has added chords eight percent of all the minus six out of just over one precise let's take a look at some individual fare moves on the my psych's fertilizer acro and gained one percent after almost triple with first half of that profit still maker m.k. was their own and that's after the company posed the thirteen million dollars net profit in the second quarter of the year but that was well below expectations and another still majors of us thought it was in the positive territory after posting a sixteen percent rise in second quarter profits but i was also below forecasts.

russia's exports oil will increase six dollars to four hundred forty four dollars per ton in september on thursday prime minister vladimir putin has also signed russia's new oil co that export d.v.c. and this isn't said to increase investment in refining and help avoid a repetition of the fuel shortages see earlier this year. that's all it is is for now the more stories you can head to our web sites our it si dot com business in the meantime stay tuned for the headlines with bill.

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