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 on the run the country's new authority is claiming 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 and signing 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 sirte have so far been able to completely confirm gadhafi is 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 falls strong pickle this apart talk to news analyst james corbett james hider thanks for being with this 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 know that he has been captured in his last major bastion that appears as well to have 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 for every stage so it's 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 nato led invasion of the sovereign nation of libya and and we have to wonder then obviously what the what the follow will be for gadhafi and for his forces but one can only imagine that that there will be much of a rallying point for for any opposition to the national transitional council if if gadhafi really has been taken he's one of the cause for war crimes at the hague the libyans and likely really that had them over if he's been captured alive. well given the extent of the involvement of the the national transitional council and. their forces with nato i think it 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 of the types of atrocities that have been be being committed by the transitional council forces in sirte and people who have been opposing them so that we have to wonder whether he will 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 his long term chances for survival would be any any better per se i think the obvious analogy here would be slobodan milosevic circa two thousand and six when he turned up in the seriously dead 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 the lot of questions about he himself saying he was being poisoned so we have to wonder what gadhafi has long term transits are for survival would be in this case there is at least one out of a kid news channel this reporting the he has in fact being killed where not saying that just one arabic child we've got so far but really this so on top of course of

ceteris a terry 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 how big is that they think going 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 an number of issues and i think it's survival might even be more problematic in some ways for the 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 of the via growth fueling of of rapes of the by the libyan military forces that had to be withdrawn because there was apt absolutely no factual evidence to back it up and the fact that the entire international criminal court case louis marino compote 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 when 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 in this conflict which was on constitutional 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 the basic question what's the simple answer to that i think of the 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. the . intelligence agencies cia for example has been cooperating with them for the last several years in the rendition program and all sorts of things that he has a lot of skeletons in the closet that he could do go if he was brought before a court and allowed to actually speak but one can imagine that that probably won't happen in something like the loss of a situation would develop if he ever was brought before a court ok use analyst james corbett thanks being on the line there from a soccer japan we are joining us tonight very good to see a hope you stay with r.t. for the latest from libya we're 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 now in 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 independent country. is there with the latest for us now. amazement face quite dramatic they way we had now. handled between tasteful soldiers the night tonight peacekeeping force he told to the i'm told to go in strip to fill in the wrong and i can see right now it's nice one hundred soldiers. who can fly and announcing on the other side of. resistance from time to time the peacekeepers are using law. called in on

the crowd to disperse but the people have come here to prevent the four soldiers to remove the barricades what they see as an attempt by nato to i think to christian. holiday the situation throughout cultural would ask mixture is even here and to see the heartland recognizing close to the. serbs are not ready to surrender not ready to get out of here they are ready to take. you know how as long as it's needed to that's why tension the very high end it is. all the time the main message from the conference are here living in conflict inside than in customs. officers and police officers who are currently working at the checkpoints serbia at the. serbs don't try to be nice as

propofol that should leave normally. in the street and only after that last throw throws no controls what will be the. message and you can see they are quite defiant and the raw leaders are right here and they are from time to time addressing to the crowd. holding can choose to remain peaceful and to remain calm so they look quite ready to fight to beyond. his roots. on the ground in kosovo dating is the latest on the long line of course as well if not by your t.v. just head to our twitter page for later you can also get all the new videos as well coming through via you tube channel. greece remains paralyzed for the two day general strike thousands of greeks protest across the country against those new budget cuts parliament's 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 shall we go live to sarah ferguson a correspondent covering this story either sara so what is the situation the greek capital like today. that sleet hail from the sticks and they were just going to say he was going on here we've actually seen it in the last. stand starting between the communist party which ran the bank towards the front of the parliament and just down in front of our hotel here the. guy here in the black mustache they started trying to move the puck tells in the ropes that the other protesters who were trying to protest peacefully and say these guys at the front were trying to sort of hold the line and what we see now as a surge of movement as people live and still moving on to the central square in syntagma really developing exactly as we still would guess they very very quickly

the situation escalating for the time being the riot police haven't actually inside the church so this is exactly what you're seeing is what we think right now the anarchist great meeting into the central stone actually queing bias a shilling just from the university and eight years of this thank you very much i was speaking to a protester earlier who said these are ordinary people turning out into the streets they're being driven to extreme measures clearly that's what we're seeing here today can you explain a bit more about. what's actually happening while the 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 austerity package and we have a a very big unemployment rate there are drugs to cats in wages people are beyond

their breaking point they cannot stand it anymore the government and the european union e.c.b. and i am if troika just piling out explosive material that's why yesterday we had the biggest strike in modern greek history and the biggest demonstration are having yet another demonstration and you have all this tension and violence rising exactly because society is under attack ok now we had the face going through in parliament at the moment the rapid ladies example i mean they don't actually seem to have an exit for him in the country d.-day would you think's going to happen that the government going to be able to stamp out whoa we're facing an aa a very unique situation we were supposed to be the cradle of democracy and greece is becoming the death bed of democracy we have a government which has been rejected openly by the majority of the people and at the same time they're good they're just in a very cynical way just voting yet another blue and through parliament they have no need to say i mean they're the most hated democratically elected government in more

than greek history i mean this cannot go anywhere ok probably they will pass the vote they will finalize this through parliament so watch when people are going to become poorer and poorer they're seeing public sector services collapsing hospitals schools universities they're facing at 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 it's joining us that's exactly what we're seeing here today this public anger once again bubbling a fellow on the streets of athens i mean it's really awful to see the two groups of protesters themselves actually separating and fighting amongst each other but the situation here is extremely chaotic this is a protest of absolutely all ages and social groups this because this is something that's affected every single person in this country in the people that we speak to

have tried to just get across what these are starting measures have meant for them it's meant wage cuts huge wage cuts in some cases that thirty percent is that tax hike is meant cuts in social spending it's been incredibly hard to live under these measures and say what we're seeing is time and again as these protests turn out against further south in more states than it is coming through is that public anger boiling a. serious so they actually have felt the worst of it yet that 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 first thank you looking ahead to what else we got the program as well this half hour with me kevin oh in another historical step into space for you a russian soyuz rocket set to make its first foreign launch to aid european satellite navigation system promising to become a rival to america's g.p.s.

. launches punning as we delayed a bit we're trying 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 known to 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 is going to she 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 a 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 class a 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 the things to various loopholes many of these corporations pay little or nothing in taxes 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 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 economies 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 when 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. what does that say about our country the wall street answer to people's rage i think you'll still be nobody held a job but as one of the protesters tried to put a word of objection when all all in. oh no hold on it's not george i'm talking to these people hold on i'm not talking to you. 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 in fact it could be the end of it and the beginning of a class war and going to check our reporting from washington. else around the world

violence broke out of the streets the chilean capital as police shoot water cannons and tear gas to disperse student led protests at least forty people were arrested when a peaceful march for educational reforms ended in clashes the two day strike was calling for free and quality education students also claim president pinera is failing to distribute the wealth from a recent copper price boob chile's education well it's 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 a national crisis over three hundred people have died in floods this is july now with at least a third of the nation's provinces still water logged homes factories and thousands of acres of farmland have suffered billions of dollars of damage or that figure is expected to rise. but of happier 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 to go to ted talks in the euro debt crisis in frankfurt business first it is their first child together but both children from previous marriages. the first ever launch of 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 now shuttles to take off for space from french guiana on friday fingers crossed daniel bushell reports on the promising project 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 lonely feeling in the world. and i miss that. we. used to hear from treasury e.u. space chief say shows you don't need to be complicated to succeed rational 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 country actively contributes to industrial scientific and technical corporation for example. it is important stamp on the way to reason the level of quality of our business ties and diversification of structures the man in charge of the launch says it's for superior to the us system it is clear that to be a majority of the way to go but it should be galileo's first satellites are lifting off from french guyana the earth rotates faster here by the equates to giving an ideal catapult effect on takeoff at the year round 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 russia's answer to g.p.s. known as glue nice competition in the sky is about to get just a little more crowded than your bushel see french guiana. just to let you know all things being well r.t. said to broadcast the historic soyuz launch live on friday around ten thirty g.m.t. if you can stay with us for full coverage there from french guiana now back to the main developing news story this afternoon the breaking news we're bringing use from libya it's been reported that the government officials saying colonel gadhafi has been killed that stories moved on somewhat of 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 joined us the top of the hour that khadafi had been taken alive with serious injuries to 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 moved 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 moammar gadhafi is the leader of libya for nearly forty two years. hunted through the streets of his own smoldering capital a far cry from when he assumed power in a bloodless coup in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine shunning the west duffey equipped as 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 the west into a groups the 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 airstrikes which provoked defiance from kit duffy. 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 in scotland which killed two hundred and seventy people cut off from trade in fearing the rise of militant islam isn't in the region duffy initiated the 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 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 duffy's violence against his own people and resulted in international calls for him to step down the un passed a resolution to allow air strikes on libya as rebels backed up with military aid from foreign governments closed in on his last safe haven eight months after the first protests and despite claims from gadhafi that he would fight on and when one of the most colorful and controversial figures in modern history was removed from power peter all of a party. 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 cum patel and a branch of oil trading giant feet all have one attendant to build an oil terminal in rotterdam in the netherlands floor i'm joined by our fellow what does this mean for suma capital and russia. well starting with zuma capital soon the capital is not a household name but there's a large company with a lot of assets and 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. is russian so was this terminal which is estimated to cost anything up to one billion one the terminal is built that will see even more charming through it and power throughout a portraiture 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 surprising me this news comes in as the russian president is meeting the dutch prime minister so this is as a context of wider corporation and energy between russia and the netherlands and in fact today you have said that not only is this one move one way russia is investing into the netherlands but also he has invited the 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 of her. hold the money that goes in from dutch investors into russia all

investors into russia is from dutch investors so there is a radicalized barbershop there and you get closer but they're still being signed thanks are. reporting there that's all we have time for now stay tuned for the headlines next with kevin.

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one story dominating our headlines this hour after noon on r.t. libyan officials claim colonel gadhafi has died from his injuries after being mortally wounded by government troops during his capture earlier on today the news comes from the city of sirte which has reportedly been freed from gadhafi loyalists after two months of fighting that is the main news this afternoon just to update you again we hear that colonel gadhafi has been killed trying to get more confirmation on that throughout the afternoon other top stories peace breakers nato forces clash with serbs in northern kosovo for.