all she could hear is we will be catching up with a little bit later in the program i can very much promise you that our other top stories this lunchtime. colonel gadhafi hometown reportedly fall to the new libyan regime. these are live pictures you're seeing now from serves the last of the ousted leader stronghold where loyalists held out for a week. russia and the netherlands are teaming up to create one of the largest worlds of an old europe more than that in around twenty two minute. hello and welcome it's two pm thursday afternoon here in moscow you're watching international from moscow kevin knowing with our top stories it's

a busy afternoon ok first off the nato led peacekeepers have reportedly fired tear gas at protesters at a disputed border in northern kosovo today they're beginning to remove barricades set up by ethnic serbs after they failed to do so themselves. in kosovo is going to latest from a very good afternoon to you can you hear me. do you have any yet you're on the ground there can you bring us up to date give paint a picture of the atmosphere there now we could see more violence is that still continuing. yes cavanagh absolutely these continue where we are now tension the very high and tensions are boiling actually we are seeing all this scandal because we know that soldiers from change for nature not peacekeeping force you can call civil and call to service call seven service to billions but. what it looks like unfortunately technology is that it's down again the we've lost

the line as you can see to more if emotion we will try and catch up with a little bit later of course to bring you up today on the tensions today there on the border now john laughlin is from the institute for democracy and cooperation he told my colleague up of all of that earlier that nato movements of firing up the conflict right now. the fact is that nato or k four is not behaving as a peacekeeping force on the contrary they are igniting a conflict they are reigniting a conflict which has been quiet now for more than ten years they are exacerbating feelings on both sides when instead what they should be doing is to allow the situation to come down in other words nato and k. four and the western powers who control these troops are doing what they have done throughout the entire history of the breakup of yugoslavia which began now a very long time ago in one nine hundred ninety one this been going on for decades

they are granting the rights to certain populations to secede from the overall unit but denying it to others what's happening today in northern ca suppose a direct result of this ridiculous idea that the cost of zero is an independent state or that it can be an independent state ok for and you lead us in other words the european union or for it is which. now run kosovo illegally by the way because only the united nations has authority and cops are both there determined to push this policy through now to its logical conclusion and i'm afraid it's a very bad sign it's bodes very ill for those serbs who are hanging on in the north of the probs. it's also john locke homeless because he was more if not sure again last lines for a vote earlier on hope you can hear me again i asked you to gauge the atmosphere force can you bring us up to date again tell us exactly what's happening on the border at the moment. wow i am really trying to but i can actually we are now in

the middle of the monsoon so signals why we said i can tell you is you know you could be technical problems with that change and i decided very high here where we are right now at a place known as guardian neutral and tensions are boiling. all this front off between the soldiers from change to watch the nature that feeds keeping force here. unfolding i can see if you want to i don't them but i can excite the raw they could be even though they were right here early morning all. who arrived here. right only all the peoples i can see it sees three of them found in the here right now so they come here to the barricade to try to refocus by force from the other side of. the rise

here to protect their barricades and protect their rights. and indeed is home again was very a phenomena said obviously there are problems there she's in a very remote area there are some problems with phone signal thanks for bearing with us we will get about three later on or at least get a report in the can for you to hear more fully about what's going on there ok let's get over some more news now the big story today a lot kicking off in greece forty eight paralysis into its second day and athens is witnessing another show of force outside parliament lawmakers are preparing to give final approval to even more tough cuts in a desperate attempt to stave off bankruptcy now you may recall yesterday wednesday protests saw around one hundred thousand. testing and clashing with police the sewers humming that a day surface in a forest by the surf it feels like a lost cause for the great people i guess we can hear the noise over the shoulder their personal stopping them turning out today is a. city with a side of safety so yesterday i had the clashes between the police and the focus is

having to tell people they're going to stay behind me on the pakistan side of a parliament building they can't vote but you have a number of people coming that's against the austerity measures now that that's potentially cause untold existence that they will stay awake by gaining additional approval yesterday i think just being done at one of the barricades of the left of the part of the building in the today that led to the concept think of thousands at this time yesterday we haven't felt that writing and it just yet and obviously everyone the we've spoken to say they don't really want to see a repeat of these violent clashes but unfortunately public anger really reaching these limits the people here say against us that is that they've reached breaking point a lot of the people we would still see down in the state trying to tell us exactly what these are stacey mrs manston because we care a lot about these cases that you know frankly in the lives of these people everyone

in the country is going to think that that is the wage cause most people hearing of the statistics and even more in some cases of the stuff that they have like. women in the country getting a high in the event you've got a lot of people who initiated creation and they've got absolutely nowhere to get enough money we seeing the emergence of a new generation of. people you wouldn't think of the middle class if the jobs simply because they went to the will say has had a very to me did the status of the station on the eyes of the chief. thing much the way it is measured in the the usa. it would take me days to get it working he did a. nice job but the. most being sober this eurozone leaders meeting on sunday where they're going to gather to try to work out a solution to try and take this forward there's only one hope for the vote will

bring so when the inside. of i think the feeling of margins and said yeah this was stated to the expenses that there was expected to run saluted until one thousand was not to be made on sunday by the way they needed because it was the reading glasses that would be very very immediate on the financial markets to the already existing was about the situation as he could imagine and so if the rest of the gates we would see the situation going out of hearing very very closely they say yesterday were the f.a.a. was filled with play to take us not going to be instilling confidence in anybody and now somebody's going to be deciding whether or not to think that it's charged money to take the lead you're right that we need to stay afloat and of course as we said before this isn't just a greek problem because it's going to be always a deal doesn't get the next tranche of money that is going to have and if you had

the other you make such a study of your raising could face one of the big problems we have a lot of the biggest thanks to it is trying to get the justice of minds to seventy members they dismissing of the currency we seeing time and again to the as grave existing how they always think feel about it but a lot of the experts i say can see it here in athens is that it's not just that they have this trouble high voice in coming up with solutions and it's finding none of the say that the whole of the phrase the situation has fundamentally flowed the litigated in a way where the trying to please the league the financial markets and the people here is that it is not about us with the other. the fact is they take the cake no way did they as if that was like the look you can see this. just might match the bit that in fact what is the ok sir referred to bring yourself to date their very noisy situation ongoing fluid situation will be coming back to you

throughout the course of the afternoon for more updates or a further correspondent in athens course it's not just greece where economy campaign there's a digging in occupy wall street is into its fifth week now as we report later this hour in the program will reveal why the u.s. government could be the one paying the price if the wealthy keep getting richer of the expense of the average american and the first ever move of a russian rocket in a western nation is perspire is now a twenty four hour wait for europe's first sat nav system to blast off in french guiana. another developing news story libyan fighters have now taken over gadhafi loyalists final holdouts in the colonel's hometown with reports now saying that sirte as fall and the city has been besieged for weeks these are the latest live pictures we're getting through on your screen now with thousands of civilians of course trapped in the crossfire with the new regime regarding regarding it as the symbolic last step to victory over gadhafi

let's discuss it now with international relations professor mark. as i say very good afternoon to you we were just looking at the pictures. garden fire into the sort of gunfire i guess for the news that come through the south in the last couple of hours that finally has been taken. for the new leadership is taking certain mean a total victory there are still pockets of loyalists resistance is this the end of it where do you think it's going to go mark. the beginning again. to the beginning of the. taken control of the more than coastline it will lose people's lives but there are big swathes of dirty deep into the center of the to the desert which are not under the control of course they certainly don't move cold enough in his lead in some stuff to get to the control and so the response feeds all the brutal.

transitional council and in tripoli because the feed has stopped at a new strategy that he's recognized that he can't fight it on against. the rebels on the ground and so but he will eat them so that if in the last few days maybe this is absent was or maybe it was a change in strategy if he wants to stop the insurgency which up with jabril the prime minister the interim government has admitted is a possibility because remember after all in iraq the fall back to create some savings from the fighting it was the beginning of the incident of course mark we're going to keep all these live pictures coming through from third to the celebrations from at least the people we're seeing on the screen ear gunfire into the air as the politics play out as the to ing and fro ing happens of course we mustn't forget the huge human suffering here we're talking to an eyewitness or one of our guests on the program last night you just come back from sirte he said he talked about the desperation of the thousands of civilians who remain there what can be done for

them now this is a big problem isn't the nature of the lead to be our humanitarian brooms get this load on us of the war has led to thousands of deaths for the many thousands of injuries terrible changes of meds and really. the nato alliance has a suitable sponsibility to provide that but actually trying to restore the economy in function and spittles of the sewage system is easy is that the and i'm afraid this is going to be potentially one of the pics this is one good call that the over there in suits that if you could get out of it livingston to pose with those somebody who sweeps the rooms of the. we killed disappeared may we'll have blamed the victorious rules and so forth from the scene be it isn't this victory could be schools of youth you see in the libya has a tradition of feuds and been dismissed and it would be great in that we see the

rebel flag raised and go with interviews we think that is the end of the story the purpose to many false goals is what about nato as operation as pretty maintaining a course all along it will continue its strikes in libya until the fighting and one out of syria is taken it is this the end of the line as far as nato is concerned. will it could be because this is that we might see insurgency exactly eight hundred is for it tell us where to put the libyan coast news their planes first assistance of the plane trip that will into information live and then from that to just i world with a little bit of face that we run the first intervention in libya the first use of the alt native media slide it's all drawn deeper and deeper into the desert this is for this. there is the potential for home very new systems does us say this some reckless transformation because to take space so there who fills it with uses to the wrists the goodwill the infighting amongst different groups but also the

continued insurgency whether it look at the feet for this will just come but even those who hate it. may not feel that there will be children and about i think less will full it off if you just captured in trouble in the good could give you comfort square those who hang together because they fear for me but i fall apart and it will be to mark briefly for courage is one of the talk about gadhafi and his whereabouts still unknown but nonetheless he got the u.s. secretary hillary clinton just a few days ago saying that they want to see him captured or killed what's going to have them do you think will show the americans will meet at the. allies of the us of the world it will that if it killed. trickle down it has with. its support for good but also as we've seen in the use of it it will still go out of a. big case it will have a look at me because you know it's look. ok professor mark almond thanks for

joining us there and just reminding our viewers what you're seeing on the screen there libya's transitional government soldiers say they've taken full control of sirte the last city where gadhafi loyalists would remain holed up according to eyewitnesses and reporters you're seeing celebrator gunfire live pictures coming through from the here on our international. also more on our website of course log on to see the latest there and the while you're online these stories might interest you to the safari shootout in small town ohio around fifty lives cheetahs and tigers you heard me right be killed by police after being let loose on the streets we've got more about that story online also the law sees a light on the hooligans in russia who try to blind pilots with those laser pens as they try to land their planes filled with passengers now they'll face ten years in jail it's about home. there's

a class war brewing in the united states that's the stark warning from the occupy wall street movement that's now into its fifth week and shows no sign of giving up for them the yawning gap between rich and poor is getting far too wide and that could cost the government did the result is going to teach you can explain. a class war seemed impossible in a country where being wealthy east part of the national green. thousands march on wall street and in other parts of america protesting against the system that they claim works only for the benefit of the few super rich individuals and corporations many ask whether america is facing a class war that at a time when the rich are getting richer while the middle class is collapsing class war is being waged in america today unfortunately the wrong side is winning the so-called one percent of winners are the nation's top corporations which this year amid the economy's very slow growth of non the less made record profits but thanks

to various loopholes many of these corporations pay little or nothing in parts of the corporations say they need the tax breaks to be able to invest more in to hire more america's second largest energy producers chevron is now lobbying not to let the government tax them more and to my question how many americans has chevron hired since the tax breaks were introduced in two thousand and four the c.e.o. of the company said they were up slightly a few thousand in our upstream business over the years but not significantly not significantly on our chevron payroll a few thousand jobs for the billions of dollars in tax stimulus that the government gave them economy same erika's largest corporations are sitting on more than three trillion dollars and not investing in the economy unemployment in the us remains over nine percent where we live in a nation where corporations can profit off a child dying at the same time with their parents into bankruptcy because they're

trying to pay for these kids medical bills. with them what does that say about our country the wall street answer to people's rage if you kill wall street will be nobody held a job but as one of the protesters tried to put a word of objection call at all. oh no hold on. to these people hold on i'm not talking to you you can. talk personal success and money have always been part of the american dream. the aspiration to become rich is deeply ingrained in american society and widely promoted by pop culture but those who took to the streets have made it clear that the situation when the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer is not their idea of the american dream it could be the end of it and the beginning of a class war i'm going to check our reporting from washington. whether it will be used dominating the headlines now in brief you'd bring it today with people in

bangkok heading for higher ground this is this one part of the thai capital in the coming hours the problem this is declared a national crisis now the disaster is claimed over three hundred lives since august and at least a third of the nation's problems is still water logged homes factories and thousands of acres of farmland have suffered billions of dollars of damage that figure is expected to rise to. a peaceful march for educational reform in chile's capital ended in a clash with riot police nearly a hundred thousand protesters gathered inside the girl with students demanding higher quality public education in place of minor reforms to the project system groups of violent protesters pelted police with rocks and stones while officers responded with water cannon and tear gas she said you cation rallies have been going on now for several months. some happy news from syria's first couple now have their first born after carla bruni gave birth to her daughter in a paris clinic president sarkozy had been with his wife but missed the actual birth

because the other go to a euro crisis meeting in france it's the first child together but both have children from previous marriages the forty three year old former model is the only serving french first lady to become a mother. the story launch of the first russian rocket to take off from a western nation is to hold on for another day no apparently because of fueling problems when the soyuz does blast off though on friday it said to carry a european satellite navigation equipment bushell reports from the south american country on the big bucks project resting in russia's hands. drivers find g.p.s. navigator can often be inaccurate and actually cartel to built up zones but the new e.u. competitor called galileo promises me to point precision even in open areas where buildings currently more g.p.s. coverage to send the satellites into orbit europe's chosen the soyuz launcher with its own royal track record by far the most.

we. will use here. e.u. space chief say shows you don't need to be complicated to succeed russian system very simple and effective it's a very good way of designing the politicians think it will launch a new partnership between europe and russia in what used country actively contributes to industrial scientific and technical corporation for example and. it is important stamp on the way to resolve the level of quality of our business ties . with structures the man in charge of the lot says it's for superior to the us system disappeared it to be a majority of the way to go but it should be galileo's first satellites and lifting off from french going on the earth rotates false to here by view giving an ideal catapult effect on takeoff i think you around the clear skies and you have the perfect conditions for launching into space america's g.p.s.

has enjoyed a monopoly on the world market till now with so use also behind buses on such a g.p.s. known as gluing us competition in the sky is about to get just a little more crowded than your bushel see french guiana and of course artie said to bring it that historic soyuz launch lives to make sure you're here for our coverage from french on friday around ten thirty g.m.t. now we're told the live coverage from sports show where in twenty minutes time we're going to have that whether tennis has resumed at the kremlin cup here in the russian capital with a quarter final place is up for grabs and these are champing at the bit daters very shortly but it's the latest lunchtime business next for moscow at one twenty four and a half. and welcome to business russian investment group so much capital and a branch of oil trading giant vitol have won a tender to build an oil terminal in rotterdam in the netherlands the fifty five

hector facility in the largest port in europe is expected to take on a significant share of the global world trade it may potentially almost double the volumes of oil going through rotterdam there's only investment in the joint project may reach one billion dollars but this isn't the only opportunity russia and the netherlands are involved in as our correspondent mary the cost and explain. to the landscape was this an economic commission some of the country's leading businessmen are over here looking to make deals and they're interested in energy and agriculture infrastructure and what is medical technologies that are also looking to get involved in russia's afterwards to modernize its infrastructure especially with such you posting the winter olympics in twenty four teams now there was also an agreement with or the water down to build and exploits in the world terminal the project is designed to become a major european logistics hub and to transport layer off of russian through all

the spite the financial turmoil around the world the dutch prime minister and british this business elite to make contacts and find good deals here in russia but not all trade amounted to fifty eight billion dollars in two thousand and ten and in the first seven months of this year it has already increased by fifteen percent and when it comes to of foreign investment the netherlands is second adding some of what we believe in dollars to the russian economy. and russia's biggest oil trader good voice is turning to other new creative black stuff and staking thirty three percent stake in u.s. coal mine a signal peak for food. hundred million dollars the american firm expects the corporation will help to get into new markets and increase production says it wants to diversify from oil trading and into coal expecting demand to grow faster than truth in the next twenty. minutes move to the markets first while it has

a rebounded that's on the hopes that the european union leaders will reach a compromise on cancelling the bailout rescue fund latest figures i'm looking out right now it's a light sweet and brant are up something like forty cents whereas we have dated figures we apologize for that european stocks however are down investors are still looking to stick to the sidelines amid the uncertainty ahead of a crucial week in the sea of red all across the board financials weighing on the footsie and manufacturing companies will be in frankfurt in russia markets continue their march into the red but they have somewhat actually rebounded from when we last looked at them investors are moving into cash anticipating a possible worsening of greece's economic situation look at the main movers financials are in pains burbank is one of the biggest losers down to a half percent bank of moscow's negative territory to its net profit of one seventeen fold in january to june into raul is also down the company reports

a night for an increase in net profit this year has very briefly of young people handing over its russian retail operations to bank french lend is selling its hope for there including retail loans of deposits worth forty two million dollars in people rebar decided to quit retail business in russia after it got into trouble as a result of the european debt crisis. more business news in around fifty five minutes time.

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