the national the new libyan government claims its troops have captured colonel gadhafi alive in the city of sirte which they reportedly have overrun after two months of fighting it's the top story this afternoon. also peace break is made so forces clash with serbs in northern kosovo took control over a disputed border area which the serbs consider their territory because the latest on that developing story to the self the new. and also the greek parliament preparing to vote on tough austerity measures as protests turned violent paralyzing the country for a second day our correspondents there to bring you the latest. welcome is four pm thursday afternoon here in moscow you're watching r.t. with me kevin oh in this hour of the top story breaking news from libya where

colonel gadhafi has reportedly been captured alive after two months of the run the country's new authorities claim the ousted leader has been taken in his hometown of sirte which is reportedly overrun by government forces earlier on today these are the latest live pictures you're seeing there ecstatic former rebels celebrating by firing endless rounds of firearms into the sky there they go again we saw a lot of that about an hour and a half ago pumping their guns knives even a meat cleaver into the air earlier on in this. sign in the singing the national anthem as well. that's the latest scene from sirte it has of course been the last major stronghold of gadhafi supporters for the past two months we hear that fell within about ninety minutes earlier on this morning reporters in search of so far been able to completely confirm get out his capture or even that the town has fallen to interim forces we must give you that footnote as well. but it looks like

it's gone that way now libya's current ruling body the national transitional council has said that they would declare libya liberated once. it's tropical this apart top to news on this james corbett james hi there thanks a big weather news is still sketchy we don't jump the gun on any of this a lot of news agencies are reporting various stories we're keeping a level head on it let's talk first of all about colonel gadhafi one theory being the south there that he has been captured in his last major bastion that appears as well to fall and does that mean the end of the libyan civil war than. well i think you're right to put a cautionary note on that because as i'm sure you know we've been lied to so many times by both sides in this conflict in every stage so it's and so obviously we have to take this news with a grain of salt but assuming that he has been captured and he has been taken alive one would assume that that would be the last domino to fall in this illegal needle and invasion of the sovereign nation of libya and and we have to wonder then

obviously what what the follow will be for gadhafi and for his forces but one can only imagine that there will be much of a rallying point for for any opposition to the national transitional council if if he really has been taken he's wanted of course for war crimes at the hague are the libyans and likely really that adam over if he's been captured alive well given the extent of the involvement of the. national transitional council and. their forces with nato i think it's at least a possibility assuming that gadhafi actually makes it out of this weekend alive because of course we have to wonder how he's going to be treated in custody and there have been a lot of reports of the types of atrocities that have been be being committed by the transitional council forces in sirte and and people who have been opposing them so we have to wonder whether he will over the world make it even out of this weekend alive but assuming that it was. to come to pass that he was actually taken

to the hague i don't think he's a one term chances for survival would be any better per se i think the obvious analogy here would be slaughtered and the rich circa two thousand and six when he turned up and mysteriously appeared in his cell just a few months before they were about to deliver the verdict on him and there were times lot of questions of the times about the toxicology reports and a lot of questions about he himself saying he was being poisoned so we have to wonder what good are these long term trends and for survival would be in this case there's at least one arabic news channel this reporting that he has in fact being killed where not saying just what arabic channel we've got so far but really so on top of course of secular state hillary clinton saying look at their face should be captured or killed only just a few days ago the details we must keep stressing are still very sketchy here the what we know what we think we know is that he's been captured maybe injured in both legs according to most reports. is there

a danger that he will be killed that big is that they think that on the back of what the secretary of state said just a couple of days ago well given that that basically was a green light for a death death pronouncement one has to wonder if if there is any chance for his survival even in the next couple of days certainly i think this would be a critical time for for him i suppose in his personal safety but i think in the broader context of all of this raises a number of issues and i think it's survival might even be more problematic in some ways for for the people who are trying to i suppose bring him to justice because one has to to look at the case that was brought against him by the international criminal record to be ridiculous charges of the biography of rapes by the libyan military forces that had to be withdrawn because there was absolutely no factual evidence to back it up and the fact that the entire international criminal court case. and his team of prosecutors was really done without

a single prosecutor or anyone involved with the international criminal court even setting foot in libya to collect any evidence whatsoever for the crimes that they're charging him with so i think it could be quite messy for them if they try to actually bring him before the court and actually have to put together a case so i think it would probably be more convenient for nato forces if he was dispatched of and i think that might have been the type of thing that clinton was alluding to obviously knowing that the end was drawing nigh and the conflict in sirte and and all of this i mean there's a lot of questions about international jurisprudence and really what the role of nato was all along in this conflict which was unconstitutional for the american forces and violation of international law and a lot of different can i ask you would there be more interested in having him dead rather than the basic question the simple answer to that oh i think it undoubtedly there is there is no question i think that men tell no tales and certainly there's a lot of tales that gadhafi can tell about his various involvements with with.

intelligence agency cia for example has been cooperating with them for the last several years in their rendition program and all sorts of things that he has a lot of skeletons in a closet and he could to go if he was brought before a court and allowed to actually speak but one can imagine that probably will happen in something like the last of which situation would develop if he ever was brought before a court ok here's analyst james corbett thanks being on the line there from a socket japan we are joining us tonight very good to see a hope you stay with r.t. for the latest from libya where colonel gadhafi has allegedly been captured alive that's the breaking news this is still unconfirmed we're still trying to get more of a handle on it was some reports even claiming as i mentioned earlier as well that he's been killed we will be reflecting on the colonel's role as the leader of libya for nearly forty two years before he was ousted from power this august a lot more to come on that story this afternoon. let's take a look at events the northern kosovo another busy news day there were nato

peacekeepers have unleashed tear gas on ethnic serbs pushing them away from a disputed border crossing the serbs have barricaded the area claiming it belongs to them as they still don't consider kosovo an independent country and is there with the latest for us now. business face quite dramatic we had. between change for soldiers from that peacekeeping culture that i'm supposed. to feel. i can see right now least one hundred soldiers. who can. resist the time to time the peacekeepers are using was. called in on the crowd to disperse but the people have come here to present the four soldiers to remove the perry case paid by nato to a safe christian. holiday situations for all cultural was. to receive in

here. the. heartland. the serbs are not ready to surrender not ready to get out of here they are ready to take. you know as long as it's needed to catch my attention because. all the time the main message from the conference or even here in consular is. offices and police offices who are currently working as a check for in serbia. don't shirk my suppose i should leave normally. in the streets and only after that last throes. will be the. message as we can see why defined

and. surprised. from time to time. friends saying to you that from. holding time to remain peaceful and should remain calm they look side ready to fight to the arms. on the ground in cost us with a song the line of course as well if not by your t.v. just head to our twitter page you can also get all the new videos as well coming through via you tube channel. greece remains paralyzed with a two day general strike thousands of greeks protest across the country against those new budget cuts to vote on another round of the intensely unpopular sturdy measures needed though to secure they say continued payment from international bailout fund wednesday saw over one hundred thousand demonstrators clash with police let's get the latest math and show we go live to surface a correspondent covering this story and other service so what is the situation the greek capital like today. that hail from the sticks and they were just going to see

was going on we don't actually see it in the last. stand thing between the communist party which ran the bank towards the front of the parliament and just in the front. there in the plaquemines they started playing a noise that popped out in the rocks at the other place that is they were trying to protest peacefully and i think this is the family trying to sort of hold the line and what we see now is a surge of needs minutes people are still moving on to the stenches play in syntagma really developing exactly it's nice to just take very very quickly the situation escalating to the time being the by at least hadn't actually in the. this is exactly what you're seeing is what we think right now the. me being into the stench was actually chilling bias

a shill it is in the universe. ok this is thank you very much this is speaking to the pretense that. these are people turning out into the street they're being treated to extreme measures clearly that's what we're seeing kids today can you explain a bit more about. what's actually happening while greek society is facing a social disaster for the past two years we've received austerity package after austerity package in the name of the debt crisis and now they're going to get another was there the packards and we have a a very big unemployment rate there are drastic cuts in way this people are beyond third breaking point they cannot stand it anymore the government and the european union e.c.b. and i am if troika just piling up explosive material that's why yesterday we had the biggest write in mode in greek history and the biggest demonstration regarding get another demonstration on how long this tension and violence rising exactly

because society is under attack ok now we had the face going to in parliament as the name of the racket leahy's example i mean they don't actually think to have much support here in a country d.-day at which things can happen that it doesn't pay big stand how. we're facing a very unique situation we were supposed to be the cradle of democracy and greece is become the best bit of democracy we have a government which has been rejected openly by that of majority of the people and at the same time they're good they're just very cynical way just voting yet another blue and through parliament they have noted that the message i mean they're the most hated democratically elected government in modern greek history i mean this cannot go anywhere ok probably they will pass the vote they will finalize this through parliament so what people are going to become poorer and poorer they're

seeing public sector services collapsing hospitals schools universities they're facing an extreme deterioration of the living state of their living conditions so we're just going to see social explosion after social exclusion. there's no end in sight and that's exactly what we're seeing here day this public anger once again bubbling on the street and that's i mean it's really the seeded team is the stuff that's really separating infighting amongst. the situation here is extremely chaotic this is a protest absolutely a.j. it's a should reach this because this is something that the fact is every single class in this country in the people that we speak see and try to just get across all these are stats you measures have meant for them it's meant wage cuts. wage cuts in some cases that this is the tax hike is not cuts in social spending it's been incredibly hard to live under these measures and say what we're seeing is time and

again with these protests against that was that was the last days of this country is that public anger boiling a. serious so they actually haven't felt the worst of it yet that's still the kick in ok well thank you for the latest they'll be coming back to throughout the course of the afternoon for more especially of course of the situation situation kicks off for any worse or further in athens thank you looking ahead to what else we got the program as well this hour with the kevin zero in another historical step into space for you a russian soyuz rocket said to make its first foreign launched to aid europe in selling a satellite navigation system promising to become a rival to america's g.p.s. . launches planning has be delayed if it will try to track the latest for you. next though there's a class war brewing in the united states that is the stark warning from the occupy wall street movement which is 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 could

cost the government dearly he is going to cheat you can explain. a class war seemed impossible in a country were being wealthy east part of the national green couldst 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 it's all in with a ritual getting ritual a little course is class a class war is being waged in america today on fortunately the wrong side is winning the so-called one percent of winners are the nation's top corporations which this year and the economy is very slow growth have nonetheless made record profits the thanks to various loopholes but 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 there were 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 the economy same erika's largest corporations are sitting are no 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 and a bankruptcy to their trying to pay for these kids medical bills. and then what does that say about our country the wall street answer to people's rage if you kill all three will be nobody held a job but as one of the protesters try to put

a word of objection all all in. oh no hold on it's not your job might be talking to these people although we're talking. my. 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 and 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 impact it could be the end of it and the beginning of the class war i'm going to check our reporting from washington marking. else around the world violence broke out of the streets the chilean capital as police shoot water cannon in tear gas to disperse student led protests at least forty people were arrested when a peaceful march for educational reforms ended in clashes today struggles calling

for free and quality education students also claim president pinera is failing to distribute the wealth from a recent copper price boom chile's education rallies been going on for several months now. let's take a look at thailand what's happening there those floods people in bangkok are heading for higher ground as the country's worst flooding in decades threatens to swamp parts of the capital the government says it'll be impossible to protect the city from the impending disaster as the prime minister's declared national crisis over three hundred people have died in floods this industry lined with 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 although that figure is expected to rise. but of happy news france's first lady carla bruni has given birth to a baby girl in a clinic in paris president sarkozy's been accompanying his wife when she went into labor but missed the actual birth because then it would attend talks in the euro debt crisis in frankfurt business came first it is their first child together but

both children from previous marriages. first of all should. a russian rocket from a western platform has been temporarily postponed because of some technical difficulties carrying a european satellite navigation system called galileo the rockets no show jewels to take off for space from french guiana on friday fingers crossed bushell reports on the promising project. drivers find g.p.s. navigator this can often be inaccurate and actually cartels in built up zones but the new e.u. competitor called galileo promises meets a point crucifixion even in open areas where buildings currently 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. lethal in the world. and. we. hear from treasury e.u. space chiefs the 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 the way you are a country actually contributes to industrial scientific and technical cooperation for example. it is important stop on the way to a reasonable level of quality of our business ties and diversification i would structure it the man in charge of the launch that it's full superior to the us system is geared to the majority of the way to go but what should. those first satellites lifting off from french guy on the earth for it's a false thing here my view point securing an ideal compatible effect on takeoff i think you around the clear skies 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 also to g.p.s. known as glue less competition in the sky is about to get just

a little more crowded than a bushel of sea french guiana. just to let you know all things going well r.t. said to broadcast the historic soyuz launch live on friday around ten thirty g.m.t. i'm going to stay with the full coverage there from french guiana now back to the main developing news story this afternoon the breaking news we're bringing you from libya it's been reported that the government officials saying. has been killed that stories moved on somewhat the last thirty minutes the news comes from the city of sirte which has reportedly been overrun by government forces earlier on today now officials first said you may recall if you join us the top of the hour that caffie had been taken alive with serious injuries in both legs the latest though we're hearing now from the national transitional council is that the colonel has died from his wounds it's a big story the south move these claims of course have yet to be confirmed independently so we must treat this with some caution but we wanted to bring you up to date with what we know as soon as we get it now the m.t.c.

had said the fall of sirte would spell the liberation of libya after nine months of civil war russian president dmitri medvedev has called reports of his capture great news and added that the colonel's fate must be decided by libyans themselves not foreign forces which have been waging a military intervention in libya since march let's take a look back now at the role of my fee is the leader of libya for nearly forty two years. hunted through the streets of his own smoldering carpets or a far cry from when he assumed power in a bloodless coup in one nine hundred sixty nine shiling the west it ducie equipped his army with soviet military technology all paid for with money from libya's huge oil reserves during the cold war he opened up libya as a safe haven for anti western terror groups the one nine hundred eighty six bombing of la belle nightclub in west berlin targeted u.s. servicemen and resulted in president reagan ordering airstrikes on tripoli air

strikes which provoked the fly ins from gadhafi the worst atrocity committed during this period was the one thousand nine hundred eighty eight bombing of pan am flight one hundred three over lockerbie scotland which killed two hundred and seventy people cut off from trade in fearing the rise of militant islam is in the region duffy initiated a thawing of relations in the ninety's the libyan leader condemned al-qaeda and declared himself an ally in the war on terror this promoted billions of dollars of business being conducted between libya and the global community world leaders going out of their way to make sure that they were seen to be working with kids after the shining five star hotels and presidential palaces he stayed in a traditional bedouin tent flanked by a security detail of glamorous female agents his face bearing the marks of repeated cosmetic surgery partially hidden behind sunglasses at all times the beginning of

the end came in february political unrest swept along on the wave of popular revolt in egypt reached libya the response from the libyan leader was brutal trade and arms embargoes and a freeze on his assets did not deter could duffy's violence against his own people and resulted in international calls for him to step down the un passed the resolution to allow airstrikes on libya as rebels with military aid from foreign governments closed in on his last safe haven eight months after the first protests and despite claims from good selfie that he would fight on and when one of the most colorful and controversial figures in modern history was removed from power peter oliver r.t. . well more on the breaking news that colonel gadhafi may have been killed today in a few minutes with our next headline update the latest business next from moscow.

hello and welcome to your business update our top stories this hour russian investment group summa council and a branch of trading giant feet all have one attendant to build and all terminal in rotterdam in the netherlands for more i'm joined by our cheesy going to go we can follow what does this mean for suma capital and russia. well starting with zuma capital the capital is not a household name but there's a large company with a lot about it's a lot of diversified assets now some of us are already in oil and gas but more importantly it already owns a network of ports so this is a very natural development to use this agreement to build a terminal and. also seems like a good location for a place through which a russian oil be transported already thirty percent of all world is russian so was this terminal which is estimated to cost anything up to one billion one third terminal is built that will see even more ocean all travelling through it and power

through other ports which are already owned by sumo so this is definitely a very good move for them and very lucky in this respect now talking about the benefits russia not surprisingly this news comes in as the russian president is meeting the dutch prime minister so this is as a context of why the corporation and energy between russia and the netherlands and in fact today. not only is this one move one way russia is investing into the netherlands but also he's invited dutch companies to invest into russia particularly in the arctic shelf particularly in your mouth and also into renewables which is of course an area in which russia is perhaps likely behind western europe but of course russia already very close partners and a lot. all the money that goes in from dutch investors into russia. all investors into russia is from dutch investors so there's a radicalized barbershop there and you get closer with this deal being signed thanks artie's you could go with you for reporting there that's all we have time

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