nato says it will continue its presence in libya as long as it needs to despite also saying that the gadhafi regime is south of thing of the past. the brutal lucian or something as a growing daily in syria fears a thousand that the political crisis may be spiraling into a religious one. palestinian a word israeli defense forces reportedly prepare for adopt rising carving out tear gas and stun grenades to self worse as the new one both very palestinian state but the. other american all drydocks of mobile and russia's roster of striking historic cooperation deal paving the way for a joint or oil exploration from the gulf of mexico to russia's past diksha.

just after eleven pm here in the russian capital you're watching our take now nato says it's close to success in libya as a gadhafi regime has fallen the alliance vowed to continue its process of the region to secure the u.n. mandate meanwhile still no one knows the whereabouts of the fugitive colonel and fighting between rebels and government loyalists continues near gadhafi is hometown the libyan transitional government is demanding the extradition of the colonel's family after they fled to neighboring algeria this comes as the rebels claim to have killed the leaders youngest son although that's not been independently confirmed now in tripoli people are struggling for stability for the rebel takeover parties but if a motion or now reports. graffiti you around the city claims will continue

tripoli the city has indeed changed appearance recently. what used to be one of the most beautiful on the african it's rainy and closed now looks neglected and duty. with fighting still continued in parts of the city and in the rebels and gadhafi forces an army of a not a kind has taken to the streets where clearly. forty one years like they have finished all of this and now i know you clean. lost in. with police no longer on the ground armed volunteers maintain order something the ordinary residents are very concerned about if there is a gun they say and who fire sooner or later was. going to be. home to the biggest aquaduct in the world tripoli has been without trying water for

more than a week already the new authorities claim is technical problems not because of the street fighting. that's not good weapons in the hands of youngsters on professional people. sammy calls himself liberal middle class now the rhaetian are poor his family lives in a mood house in the center of tripoli just like every resident there is struggling . this is hard i wish kluge like women were doing fifty years ago with hands like this but this battle is nothing new comparing to woods behind them some he says. still don't tell the. water. no food. at least we get rid of. at least we have our freedom and these four days seems to be shared by many here. although today may not be the best place to live hey it's dangerous from both humanitarian and security point of view truckers are water

medicine food coupled with people with guns everywhere and no police but the residents of the libyan capital say they've been living without fresh air for forty two years of khadafi is wrong since they get it back nothing else matters there is not an hour to fearfully libya and patrick case reporter for the online magazine spiked believes that the primary task for libya's new government should be proving its legitimacy to the libyan people. i think fundamentally with the transitional government that's being put in place what you have here is a government that's been cherry picked by the west these are people it's on two legs it's they all finish try and win a debate with the libyan people about why they're in any way more legitimate and gadhafi the libyan people still do not have a voice and i think is fundamental to this as well as securing us in libya which of course they're trying to do it in moments debate they say this is our

constitutional charter this is what we stand for this is the way we think the country should be governed and i really put that to libyan people for them to make up their own minds but i mean also fundamentally in terms of securing the country i think it's the absence of that you see from the transitional government the absence of a real sense of what they're going to do next other than just you know basically implement a kind of blueprint for it's you know the west seems happy with this is going to cause real problems here ok and now let's talk about the fall of tripoli everywhere tripoli fell almost all the western leaders i cheered that this is a job well done daffy has finally fall and you know just days later and now nato promises to stay for as long as necessary but why stay if the revolution is over. well for starters i wouldn't say this is in any way a revolution the west western government basically bombing the path. of a rag bag of rebels and filling the vacuum left by gadhafi isn't in any way what i would term a revolution but that's something that i think more fundamentally than that there's

been no sense from from western leaders what they were doing in the first place and they've not any point had a coherent sense of what the mission is and there's a lot of talk a lot of grandstanding over the last few days about this a job well done there is no mission creep with xander with no mission creep going on it was only because they didn't have any idea of what they were trying to achieve in the first place and it's no surprise for now gadhafi is gone they're still hanging around because they're still unsure it's still unclear they want to get some brownie points from this you know and have made some short term political gains as a result of it all you're watching archie and there's plenty ahead for you this hour including war contracting expose a u.s. senate committee finds thirty billion dollars of taxpayers' cash wasted or stolen by contractors and afghanistan and iraq warning that as much again is still at risk . while lingering violence in syria shows no sign of abating

a more brutal battle may be on the horizon nourished by a series of fierce political clash just a fragile secretary and balances started crumbling as argues that in a delusional reports serious religious minorities are under threat. protests in syria start out with political slogans. but when violence breaks out people come to blows over issues of faith not politics. with more than four thousand years of history damascus like the rest of syria has been home to multiple faith for centuries but with an increasing political unrest namely are starting to wonder whether this could upset the delicate balance of religious tolerance in the country for now who is enjoying the quiet comfort of her home like most christians in the country it's a life she's been used to since her childhood but then i was growing up in a place with christians jews muslims and everyone got along just fine we still do actually but it's not like this everywhere more than seventy percent of syrian

population are muslim and just plain christians and most muslims here belong to different branches of the religion take for example the president himself was shot are said is a follower of the old with branch or islam who are a minority among the predominantly sunni population so some of those dissatisfied with the current regime spread their animosity towards all of its if someone for a problem with the government. some people believe this because of this regime belong to this strict and we have to struggle against the sick and this can be a bloody battle indeed i don't know why my son was killed he was just working in a shop and his killers knew that he was not politically active but he also knew he was an alawite and there must have been the reason for his murder such a violent is something that's new to syria where religious minorities have a special status largely because the country's leader is himself a member of such well we are protected by

a law which allows us to live according to our customs since the protests started a lot has changed and it's strange for us it must be coming from the outside. whoever is rocking the boat of syrian religious tolerance they aren't reaching their goal just yet the prevailing attitude on the streets is still that of acceptance but if the political unrest worsens the lives of many religious minorities in syria could be at stake it only goes quietly him ask us. now the last few months of prove a disheartening for america in afghanistan with july and august being the two deadliest for u.s. troops since the war began a decade ago well that comes as a senate committee in two wartime contracting has found a thirty eight billion dollars of taxpayers' money missing or stolen by contractors and the final report claims the money was squandered due to poor planning a lack of oversight and outright fraud by u.s. contractors and federal employees but it also warns that another thirty billion could be wasted unless tough measures are taken for the five things are now to be

presented to congress as a cash strapped washington prepares to trim with defense spending to tackle its enormous debts and for more on the implications of the report i'm now joined by john glaser assistant editor at antiwar dot com live from our studios in washington d.c. thanks very much for joining us now on this replace or the real surprise here is the sheer magnitude of what he said funds there's one in six taxpayer dollars that went to iraq in afghanistan why dig up lost or stolen now it seems extraordinary doesn't it that the problem wasn't officially recognized or acknowledged and the extent of it much earlier. yeah you're right but what's even more troubling is the fact that this is just one report in a field of many describing such profligate waste in the american empire there's been previous reports about. us going directly to from the insurgency that is the taliban who are suppressed and sadly there to be fighting there is a report out done by the center for public integrity that investigates the

pentagon's practice of. the no bid contracts for defense industry corporations which is ballooned to a one hundred forty billion dollars problem and twenty eleven so this kind of ways to is just widespread throughout the wars oaky you're saying that there have been reports in the past but now it seems like they're giving it a bit more official recognition surely washington will stop its. it down and read it want it. well i'm concerned they're not having they're not being enough of an effect from these reports of the the recommendations within the report sort of have the air of usual washington type advice build another bureaucracy to watch over for oversight in this department you know hire an inspector general so on and so forth i'm concerned that the recommendations of this

committee although their analysis of waves are very valuable and concerned that their recommendations won't even take place or if they do they'll be wasteful still here talking about concerns about the recommendations in that case what is the point of these recommendations that you're pointing out and if it's about to to attract bad press all these reports coming out so why even acknowledge it if you're not going to aim to fix it. well washington doesn't know how to fix these problems the fundamental problem in this is what was in the report which the commission interviewed people from the department of defense and these people told them that they can't even gauge in a prolonged military conflict without the help of contractors and there's a reason for that the reason is that we're engaged in these wars that are not narrowly focused military operations where we have a clear to me and a clear goal for the end of the conflict instead there are these vast campaigns of social reconstruction and nation building but you know building up institutions

trying to remake societies there are colonial projects they're not small wars they're building up in expanding the empire and of course that's good that's too too much for just the military to handle they have to hire the entire defense industry ok you're talking about the dependence on contractors saying as you mentioned that they can't go into such countries like iraq or afghanistan without these contractors but surely this is. a security threat don't you think it's posing a security threat of relying on outside contractors to do the job. it's a security threat it. puts us in further into debt it makes a larger just distance between who we can look to to go for accountability when something wrong goes happens in the when when something bad happens in these war zones you know who do we go to some private contractor these are very dangerous

circumstances and simply expanding the empire in this way you're exactly right puts the greater danger ok but at the end of all of this i mean this report is going to be showing presented to congress that what will come out of this whole fiasco if the proposed measure is proved to be useless will this just be ignored and that the practice is worthless continue as they are currently being implemented. you know i can't say for sure but if all of the even if the best of outcomes are right that we can imagine that that congress takes these these analyses and these recommendations to heart and they try to implement them. it's still going to be the problem that we're building and expanding an empire and we're relying on an entire. government bureaucracy in order to do it and that problem is not going to change no matter what congress does as per these recommendations ok one of the biggest debates in

america of course the defense budget cuts do you think that this will have any impact the comment if that's not it cuts in america. i hope it might put unfortunately the pentagon and the defense department and many people in congress have a beneficial way of you know crowding out these types of arguments which is to say you know you don't want to fund the war you don't want to fund the troops and you're leaving them to be unprotected and you know your you hate america basically that's a very good rhetorical slight and i think that unless we. hold the line and start to make it real to people how wasteful these wars are and how dangerous they are to innocent lives we were going to see more of it ok thank you very much john glaser assistant editor at antiwar dot com thanks for the. all you can always chuckle website for the latest updates on our stories and here are some of what you

can find online right now and dancing the ultimate honeypot the story of an airbase in parody song that is the u.s. and russia playing off against each other today today of millions of dollars. by show literally becomes a premier attraction as a thousand riders roar into town to praise world war two heroes a battle cruiser return to action again as pyrotechnics helped evoke memories of this video and many more can be found in our view to show. the israeli defense forces reportedly preparing supper is for the mass uprising of palestinians expected after the u.n. votes on a palestinian statehood in september all the preparations include having out tear gas and stun grenades to civilians or just call us leader has more now on how israelis are bracing themselves for what they see as in the words of the rest. the israeli army is preparing for what it's calling operation on the sea it is preparing for september when it's widely expected at the united nations general assembly will vote in favor of establishing

a palestinian state now the army has got into rid line around it we settlement in this country what this means is that as palestinian protesters approaches islam and at first there will be fired at the tear gas in continue to approach closer to the settlements soldiers will be given the order to fire at their feet and use any other kinds of means they can as mr three dispersing the crowd the army does seem to be disparate it has been holding intensive training for internal security establishments with in the system and things cells it's also giving specific orders and not secure should you do if people approach the borders if indeed the roads are blocked if they fear that someone has infiltrated the community it is also a growing fear here there comes a timber they will be shortages in fuel and gas and groceries are to kill really within the system and into this order to close has been given instruction to stock up now the working assumption of these ready defense establishment is that come to

him that there will be a vine and there will be confrontations between israelis and palestinians they will be what is being termed here public disorder what we're hearing from the army and from the various reports that are being bandied about is that they anticipate that there will be marches by palestinians to name roads into it into junctions between main streets that there will be coaches held outside communities it will be the destruction and the damaging of any kind of symbols that are associated with the israeli government and this in the army is also preparing for the worst case scenario which is essentially violence shooting and any kind of terrorist activities a military resistance palestinians will only bring international sanctions on israel after palestine is recognized as a terrorist boat and that's the object. a political activist and co-founder of the israeli committee against house demolitions. it's clear that israel's not going to allow or it's going to try not to allow september to happen israel has no intention

of giving europe it's control of the occupied territories the until today israel's managed to keep its whole settlement enterprise because it's succeeded in getting the united states close to characterize the occupation as disputed territories and not real occupation once the un recognizes palestine within these borders now there's no argument this is occupation international law is a crock probably one hundred forty countries will recognize palestine and israel is going to be under a lot of pressure to me to try to maintain the occupation and i don't think the the military resistance to the palestinians is going to help i think it's actually going to make the inquiry tired national community impose sanctions on israel a big campaign will be after september getting the israeli presence out of the sovereign state of palestine and on our website we're asking what do you think is

the reason behind israel seargent preparations are just looking at the chart here a fifth of those who voted think the jewish state is just concern for us people say fifty seven percent say the israelis are simply being paranoid twelve percent think it's a way of distracting people from the economic woes inside the country and almost two out of three respondents think it's all a provocation pain that discredits and the palestinians ruining their chances of the u.n. vote and you can join it at r.t. dot com. let's have a look at some world news in brief this hour a demonstration in iran calling for greater protection of one of the world's biggest salt water lakes turned violent protesters threw stones at security forces and police reportedly fired back and it is unclear whether the regime's. live bullets i would say can a couple of days for the story to come to light as locals were said to be too afraid to talk about it on friday mentalists have been raising the alarm over the

lake for years saying its very existence is threatened are drowned. hundreds of a.n.c. protesters have clashed with police in south africa ahead of a disciplinary hearing of the ruling party's youth league leader julius malema is accused of sowing divisions in the party and embarrassing the president by calling for botswana's regime to be ousted and police is trying to break up the stone throwing demonstrators with water cannon rubber bullets and stun grenades the limit faces expulsion from b. and c. at the close door hearing. nato has shelved troop reduction plans in kosovo after a recent outburst of violence in the area fighting flared again bistro by one constables of forty cents police to the north in a border dispute with serbia of the alliance was going to remove around half of its soldiers but in light of events it's decided to reinforce instead of eight us presence in the region has lasted for more than a decade. american all china mobile and russia's ross nafta have signed

a historic cooperation deal paving the way for further joint oil exploration and development from the gulf of mexico to russia's vast optic shall i does it our skin off the details i think you. this is quite an impressive deal which should open brand new opportunities both for russia's biggest company and for u.s. energy giant exxon mobil first of all the two companies will be jointly developing the all fields on the russian arctic shelf people already talked about some really impressive figures they are planning to invest three point two billion dollars in oil exploration but according to prime minister vladimir putin who was present at the signing of this cooperation agreement between the two companies he said that in the future this figure could become over a hundred times bigger which is a really good news for us since the company has been looking for

a quarter to develop the oil fields in the arctic shelf for quite some time the last set of negotiations with british petroleum fields and out of all the global energy giants out there exxon mobil has managed to make the most adequate proposal also under this agreement the american energy giants will also take part in the development of all fields on the black sea and according to russia's officials this project of the black sea project could grow in the future and. it will be part of at least six world development projects in the united states and in the gulf of mexico so this is a great opportunity for the two companies to exchange their experience and no power in the oil development business. no more that they are not a business bulletin if you will ya.

hello and a very warm welcome and we of course continue with this huge deal between russia's rosneft and your assets norval the agreement will help to significantly increased presence in the u.s. market and will also draw a line in role so that's long lasting quest for a partner to develop the russian arctic shelf it was obvious of all that believes the deal has a strategic importance for the country's energy sector. generally this is something that will raise your track of. russia's oil and gas sector with the universe so to say until recently before. all of last year. russia's stock market was plagued by uncertainty including in the tax year there were other problems and now you finally had several drivers aligned recently there was this announcement about why don't we have a decision on the taxation on the oil and gas sector so there is greater visibility

and now there's a deal i think for there will track the interest of portfolio investors and will really make the will and gas sector especially in this relatively high oil price environment really one of the more interesting thirty years within russia's space. and to look at the markets branch current rose to the highest level in more than three weeks as markets wait a sharp drop in consumer confidence against the threats of cuts yet another tropical storm but for some from land in the atlantic. look at precious metals now gold is not like pulling its worst weekly performance in two months last week and silver is also higher this hour. stocks are flat on the news consumer confidence was falling in august and a rally in britain's banking stocks i'm sure the c. one hundred index closed nearly three percent higher today so germany's dax

finished lower as you two just fell extending the indices because the drop in almost nine years. the russian storage market made sure terms of growth in tuesday but was unsuccessful first activity was quelled for the release of poor through aspect for economics just explained the day's close as a result the market closed with minor changes for the day let's not have a look at some of the individual share moves in the my six just. all of us just start posting strong first quarter results grows shopgirl report says signing a huge corporation agreement for exxon mobil. law that's despite reports that russia's biggest lender has boosted his first stop the traffic move into salt which in turn helps prevent all those. markets started off pretty positively of what we've been seeing happening today is that the positive momentum that was driven by speculation that the fed may in some way be able to accommodate security three for

the euro three wouldn't be necessary because the u.s. economy appears to be strong enough so that it's not needed there's a new trick open like you did on friday they put the ball back in the bombers course on the economy and that's quite smart and the markets now are starting to look at numbers and then the second story is the market as a minutes away from from one trade speech is starting to look again at europe and it's starting surprises are possible fluctuations in europe through next week. that's all the business news from now with more stories you can log on to our website r.t. dot com slash business. wealthy

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