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welcomes his r.t. is ten pm now here in moscow my name's kevin zero in with the top stories for you tonight and despite a heavy offensive from libyan forces garfield loyalists are still putting up a strong resistance this is the country's interim leaders struggle to form a cohesive cabinet while the forces remain locked in a battle with supporters of the fugitive colonel well the loyalists are making their last stand in several cities with civilians in the affected areas trapped in the crossfire meantime the rest of libya is reeling from months of civil war with some estimating the death toll in the tens of thousands ongoing nato airstrikes have also reportedly killed a number of civilians and some western leaders now facing possible legal action over their ability campaign you may find some of the images coming up or down the bushes report disturbing. french explorer minister roland jamal's this is british.

if in good they're free in the international criminal court which is issued a warrant for his arrest but later we'll have to find the first libya's deposed leader is it hiding for good reason. if they find him they'll kill him like bin ladin some states are now claiming the right to kill against all international law . images like these a moving fridge lawyers to turn against big government because sarkozy faces lawsuits over the birth of ordinary people in libya lawyers here in france accuse the presence of committing crimes against humanity this lawyer calls the libyan war renew vietnam where the u.s. sprayed tens of millions of liters of toxins on crops in the sixty's and seventy's causing brain disorders miscarriages and birth defects to this day. so they using missiles with depleted uranium which causes cancer in tripoli i saw people crippled by nato attacks office workers who have nothing to do with the

fighting that's why we're soon president sarkozy for crimes against humanity and nato first denied bombing this residence where thirteen civilians including four children died it then called the place a military command center this journalist went to see what it really housed books videos spiderman. toys and cultural and everything is nothing nothing military in another attack it is wife and child the grandchildren were reportedly killed in their home nato is accused of deliberately waging a campaign of terror. their bombings targeted libya's electricity water and food supply after five months of deadly nato bombs and thousands of deaths people will stop supporting the regime because they simply cannot take it anymore. western leaders a poised for their first big legal challenge over libya if they stop the cases

coming to court all together as chickadee it will prove once and for all but worse than just this really used politicians not the rule of law the new bush or r.t. paris. when the latest twist of the libyan revolted submerge that colonel gadhafi could escape from tripoli a month ago in a state of the art armored vehicle got. reports in britain's daily mail newspaper the mercedes four by four was reportedly provided by the french government with nicolas sarkozy giving the green light for the deal back in two thousand and eight an interesting twist this one let's talk about it more than should we with author of the article journalist and political analysts nabila ramdani securities on the line would be from london but will a thanks for being on our team international's could see tonight just tell us more about this is it seems been so cozy provided colonel gadhafi if what i'm saying is true this very well get away car i mean that number i look at is quite ironic given that france given all the other nato nations wants to see him captured the most.

well absolutely it's quite an extraordinary twist in this rebellion and indeed a huge embarrassment for the french government as it emerges that president sarkozy saw in two thousand and eight a three point five million pound car took an orchid after which has allowed him to escape it's as you said a state of the old armored vehicle it's equipped with. a system which allows colonel gadhafi to keep in touch with his forces but it's also equipped with tracking system which makes it impossible for nato surveillance to to pick up any signals and indeed to locate and target a car so it's indeed quite ironic and indeed embarrassing for the french government the deal was struck in two thousand and seven when present sarkozy was then interior minister before that before he became president a few months later and as soon as he became president he received a colonel gadhafi himself in paris for a five day visit where he gave him

a tour of paris including to the palace of versailles he dined him at the ritz and he allowed him to plant his stand just across the street from the palace and he was also an opportunity to. strike very new creative business deals president sarkozy was hoping to sell the fighter jets. at the time but the deal for fell through and colonel gadhafi was able to buy those jets from russia instead but nonetheless the presence of because he was able to sell him this armored vehicle the cd is called four by four and indeed part of the deal is a twenty five million plus package which also includes provides the libyan government which means with means to keep tabs on positions via by controlling the e-mail system of dissidents what you're saying is huge double standard syria

the i don't want word of mouth it looks like you know the french government was all too happy back in two thousand and eight to be in bed if you like with free until it didn't suit them anymore fair comment. well absolutely especially that these revelations come in the wake of a triumphant visit lately by president sarkozy in libya where he was very much depicted in the french press as the liberator of libya he was nicknamed sarkozy the libyan and his war was nicknamed sarkozy's war he was portrayed as the savior of libya while at the same time of course his the one who probably the most to get gadhafi in arms as anybody of. course the polish picture as well i guess is not just fronts other is it i mean nato is selling weapons to gadhafi it's now allegedly providing the anti good afy fighters with arms it's got a full circle. well very much so the british government is new revelations have come out as well making it clear that the. tony blair government was

very much it was very close indeed to gadhafi and although and i'm not so extraordinary revelations came out showing that the m i six which is the british intelligence service where the very helpful in handing over political dissidents based in the u.k. to colonel gadhafi to basically get tortured back so these are hugely embarrassing revelations for western countries involved in this military adventure in libya and however to look at it it's very hard to believe that they are getting involved militarily out of the goodness of their hearts but of course as we've seen lately there was a paris conference held where very business interests were discussed and the whole purpose of that meeting was of course to make the military adventure worthwhile and to discuss business opportunities involving the rebuilding rebuilding of libya with

energy companies the telecom firms and construction companies from britain and france in a very good position to get a very lucrative business deals. with libya the bigger while you're on the line there's a very brief we could repeat outside of the rebels are also sort of been providing countries like france lucrative all contracts in libya what should call about fair payback you think for neighbors helping getting rid of gadhafi. well i don't believe that's how world politics work i don't believe in interference in internal affairs but i think it will be up to the libyans to discuss how they want to run their own countries the national transitional council has made it clear that it wants to reward other countries who took the lead role in backing of the rebellion but we also have seen resistance from jihadist movements who have called for

the members of the national transitional council to resign and who are making it abundantly clear that they are determined not to lead the west plunder the country is really good have a program and get your thoughts on this very interesting story journalist political analyst in the below room danny from london thanks ever so much thank you now still ahead for you this hour on the program angry demonstrators seem to more than crossing in serbia now the e.u. is weighing in to stop protesters settling into conflict you got the latest on that for you. and two russian cosmonauts returned to the capital after a nail biting mission red moscow star city with the details shortly. the u.n. and the world's key financial institutions say palestine strong enough to function as an independent state palestinian president mahmoud abbas is due to request full un membership for the general assembly on friday so he'll submit a request letter after his speech there but the threat of an american veto still hangs in the air artie's report explains the u.n.

players positions. if global politics were a sport. the united nations would be the grand arena. and september would be opening season nearly two hundred of the world's most powerful and not so powerful players descend on new york city gathering in one room for a week's worth of speeches and it chance to grandstand on the international stage nearly ten thousand delegates and two thousand journalists are in town for the general assembly you could beat but in reality five countries are the ones who really matter russia china france the us and britain the permanent security council members with veto power the real power in the united nations resides in the security council and it requires a consensus among the five permanent members and as long as the want one or one or more of the permanent members won't go along with something the un's ability to act is limited no resolutions can succeed if opposed by any of the big five case in

point the current palestinian campaign for un membership and statehood and initiative the us publicly supported last year when we come back here next year we can have an agreement that will lead to a new member of the united nations an independent sovereign state of palestine living in peace with israel but this year it's the opposite with washington saying it will veto the palestinian un membership warning of additional collateral damage one of the things that i that i hope the palestinian leadership is considering is the day after what will happen when after whatever. show we have in the united nations is done. what will change in the real world for the palestinian people. the answer is nothing that sadly ironically the majority of the general assembly supports palestinian un membership the assembly alone with two thirds

majority can award nonmember observer status to the palestinian. it's like the vatican enjoys and doesn't need security council approval to do so so no one can veto this decision some believe however the un is the wrong forum for resolving major international disputes it's a very dysfunctional situation actually the un really isn't the one isn't really the venue even for this the un only gets the sort of hype aspects of these fights and deals with them pretty badly to the israeli palestinian problem the un is mostly theater and this is just one one particularly for a freakish example of it this global gathering attracts the security crowds and media madness of a sports championship but when it comes to practical outcomes scoring more than a symbolic victory could be unlikely even if there is a permanent member or two or three who believe that. palestine should not be a member of the us and they want it on record but the vast majority of the people

the world do believe that it's time the other we're going to see a gathering all the. way. yet many wonder if this diplomatic strategy leads to anything more than the event itself. artsy new york. tensions in northern kosovo will be discussed this week in brussels as both great stop negotiated call for car merging all sides to seek a diplomatic solution the atmosphere in the region intensified after pristina but by a nato led forces placed customs officials on the two disputed border posts previously under so control a response serbia blockaded all the roads leading to the crossings and i see sarah ferguson more in this highly charged situation. and of course of those thirty's with the e.u. and nato forces on one side ethnic serbian protesters on the other of course this is our land territory it's refusing to accept the costing government's attempts to

take control of two border crossings here in the north the protesters are standing firm at the barricades that they erect is the game of nerves and night the sides willing to back down i don't think anyone in the world can come to these people here in the north and tell them give up. go home and accept that you leave independent cos they will not do it for the time being the protesters seem calm you don't have to look hard to see signs of the underlying tensions here all along the roads here in the north you come across these makeshift roadblocks serbian people using gravel rocks bits of wood whatever they can get their hands on really to disrupt the flow of traffic in this area protesters about that look to remain in place until it dialogue begins about who man the border posts and what will happen with the revenue collected from the customs tax control we're not going to move until the solutions reached. sides the situation right now is unacceptable back in

july violence erupted when the authorities tried to take control of the border posts after closer than prime minister has seen that she wanted to trade down and serbia the conflict resulted in the death of the policeman now neither side wants to take action the theory could once again ignite tension concerning the major events picking place for. considering the concerns. of population living. i would say of removing those barricades from the streets and from the main highways it's not for. the funding criticisms that they preach they need to. position with regards to cause the way you look says that the monitoring it because the gate bring much needed law and order to the north pristine is acted with in terms of an equipment claim that belgrade strongly. this is a serious incident in

a serious step back along the road to formalisation or for relationship with krishna the second thing is that once you put across them officers then you will put a flag and you will put a call to arms then you will push for so-called possible laws and then people who live here will be circled by something that looks like. this if you cannot accept this now talk among building you bypass the checkpoints because when authorities refused to leave the time being the border crossing remains blocks and there are many obstacles that will need to be eva come on the rates of finding a resolution. for the news extended coverage of websites of wealth of information and if you would r.t. dot com take a look at some stories we got online right now we put through for you this is the fear some flag ship and indeed the pride of the russian navy close up now you get

me inside look at the mighty valley i get all its glory on live below our cameras inside for you to take a look. also a small town of russia's far eastern face with an extraordinary nuisance as you see a group of polar bears invaded here it's attacking the locals. to find a residence a combative threat that was a wake up call to just about scrambles to a feet there and waddles off r.t. dot com supposed to get more. and more news making headlines from obese twenty people including a child reportedly killed by pro regime snipers firing from rooftops in the yemeni capital sanaa hundreds more were treated for gunshot wounds it comes a day after twenty six protesters were shot dead. clashes between presidential loyalists and opposition supporters in the bloodiest crackdown in weeks we've been telling protests demanding the end of president sellers rule russia wants both sides to enter talks saying it's the only way out of the crisis that. has been

given to bait him to enforce deeper budget cuts if it wants to avoid going bankrupt early next month the international monetary fund surrounded on athens for falling behind on reform targets the country's finance ministers pledged to speed them up and is holding the emergency conference with credit is it comes as eurozone leaders chose to wait until october before ruling on whether to release the next eight billion euro bailout package to greece. president obama's laid out a plan to cut the deficit to revive the american economy with the wealthy expected to pay more he said bigger news and corporations must pay a higher taxes are legal everyone should pay a fair share rival republicans are already refusing to greater tax hikes the white house believes the public's on its side. rescue work across so isolated himalayan areas in the nepal into bed after a strong earthquake hit the region killing was fifty people the epicenter of the quake was the northern indian state of the casualties were buried under debris

fifty others were injured some critically serious quakes to strike the region a lot but until now haven't caused any major damage. two russian cosmonauts are back in moscow after an extended and eventful stay onboard the international space station their return to work was delayed because of safety precautions after the failure of the progress and cargo ship back in august one of these people all of us on the k.c. reports from moscow star city space center. the two russian cosmonauts that returned back to worth on friday have been talking about their experiences while on board the i.s.a.'s but they were up there nearly six months so as you can imagine with only four days to get used to lay back on earth it has taken some getting used to. i was afraid my first moves on earth would be clumsy and difficult but it turned out to be not that bad julie my body was challenging and i wanted to turn around but i could only walk straight despite my intentions it's much more stressful to land on earth than to leave it a was

a very eventful six months that they were on board the international space station there are three key incidents that occurred while they were up there they were they were of course there for the progress module the crash that was heading up to supply the i s s with water with oxygen and they talked about how that affected them on board we spoke at great length about it from here on the earth but they were saying is terms of food water and supplies too much however it did affect them in terms of their experiments that they were doing that was equipment was being carried on the progress module it was intended to help them come to those experiments that were going on up in space to make our lives here on earth all that better unfortunately the loss of that equipment couldn't get those experiments now they were also up there for the final talking all the nasa space shuttle and station plant is stopped on the eighth of july unless bonnie joy i beg your pardon is the last time for it now the cosmonauts are saying that this was a very very sad experience it was quite similar in may arise to when the nearest

space station finally fell out of commission a real end to a chapter in space exploration history now the main celebration of their time when the on board the international space station was of course you recent night the twelfth of april fifty years since you could set off to become the first man in space that was of course hugely celebrated on board the space station the internet . space station containing people from japan people from america of course russians as well during that celebration so they were it was a real international of their this is what it was the cause not to say. well it's especially nice to know that countries other than russia respect to this holiday we received lots of warm wishes and greetings like true russians we took pride the duty to go in was our countryman our ship was called to go and so the flight was filled with the holiday spirit so while alexander some a could have been under polishing to get used to life but here on the recognized the the celebration it was

your garbage first like fifty years ago for star city peace r.t. to exactly twenty three minutes past ten o'clock at night here in moscow just twenty five minutes away from later sports and i will you know discover who the new team is to catch a russian russian football's premier li got details coming up for you if we could have a business right now with junia. hello and a very warm welcome to the program russia's interest market is seeing its biggest deal since. number three of the market rest so is buying a twenty five percent blocking stake in his rival of the s.k. deal is expected to be worth around two hundred fifty million dollars the company's aim to created during group named rest so. recess present in ukraine one of the for biggest companies supremely as

a separate company in because of the second company you know i mean the biggest private insurance group in bill russia so we are already present in your sister. expect that musical before new partners develop this business of includes the eastern europe maybe due to the crisis or some other situations for you. to get some interesting targets for there because you should be converging projects any way you look at the market. as mr abramovich the you don't buy shares you buy situations which you try to find interesting situations insurance markets. and french banks being p parable has decided to quit its retail business in russia clients accounts will be transferred to other lenders and b. and b. will now focus on its consumer credit joint venture with russia's burbank been

prepared part of the russian market five years ago and initially planned to set up one hundred fifty projects but it only managed to open trying to six several foreign lenders have pulled out of the country in recent months it's a result of the difficult business environment and such a ration of the local retail market. that's a look at the markets as well as subtle low as we could global equity markets and assistance concerns about greek debt crisis weighed heavily on market sentiment that's prompted investors to lock and profits. go stocks us thinking on fears that greece's debt crisis is worsening the dow is losing under two percent and the nasdaq is one point four percent in the red this hour as it slides comes in the way of wall street's best we can months. and european stocks more disquieting as investors speculated that greece may not receive a payment that would help it avoid default. that's not true meeting with top european finance ministers over the weekend fail to show up jittery investors could

see was two point four percent lower shares and all britain's leading banks were pulling in germany the techs was down on just three percent after a regional election defeat for more goals government headed to the markets uncertainty. on stocks in russia were in the red truck in europe low with most blue chips dipping world hundred percent the russian currency also lost ground slipping more than one percent versus the dollar in the first minutes of trading on monday which in this year's lowest level therefore the difference in the drop scale the r.t.s. and the biceps let's have a look at some of the individual show moves here energy majors and banking stocks were also under pressure russia's largest oil company rosneft was one point seven something lower left was to produce a new one was also in the red after the company's reported its plans tough net profit rising fifty eight percent to two hundred thirty billion dollars dollars gold finished up though just marginally its last tough profit has doubles to two

hundred seven million dollars michael steiner is grittier financial corp bret's not today straight for us today russian equities have extended friday's losses and it's more concerns for both the global economic recession hema growing risks in the euro zone and the absence of visible solutions right now in the domestic market we see something in the ruble which is now trading at the lowest level since december of last year despite the stubbornly high oil price despite the very solid macroeconomic data which was released in the last couple hours showing a big year in year improvements in retail sales improvements in fixed capital formation and a decline in the unemployment rate that. is positive for the export oriented companies such as luke will rise now it's called the steel companies but it is not negative for the domestically oriented companies including spear being the retail operators as well as the mobile operators. the threats stop the business program

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