team oscar what you see on your screen is now breaking news that we believe this to be the face of a fall in the dictator it's not been confirmed by a graphic picture there that photo was released of made claims by libyan officials that colonel gadhafi has died from his injuries after being shot by government troops during his capture earlier on today is a cell that information still to be confirmed the news though comes from the city of sirte which is reportedly being freed from gadhafi loyalists after two months of fighting. the other top stories today peace breakers nato forces clash with serbs in northern kosovo took control over a disputed border area which the serbs consider their territory. and the greek parliament prepares to vote on tough austerity measures as protests violent paralyzing the country for a second day. and business news a russian company makes a major breakthrough zuma capital is judge will build

a huge world terminal in rotterdam for more two minutes twenty minutes. welcome it's now five pm thursday afternoon here in moscow money was kevin are you watching r t in the main news that's dominating all the headlines this hour for the story coming from libya but government officials say colonel gadhafi has been killed that news comes from the city of sirte which is reportedly being overrun by government forces a day now officials first said that there are fears being taken alive with serious injuries to both his legs who are reporting that last hour the latest though we're hearing now from the national transitional council is that the colonel has died from his wounds you saw that graphic photograph there it looks like a village yet of course to be confirmed that it is him. these claims have yet to be

confirmed independently we must stress that the n c c is said the fall of sirte would spell the liberation of libya after nine months of civil war the of what this has been coming from russian president dmitri medvedev who's called reports of get their fees 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. as i'm sure you know we've been lied to so many times by both sides in this conflict for so 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 and is so illegal invasion of the sovereign nation of libya and and we have to wonder then obviously what what the follow will be for 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 but if

gadhafi really has been taken well given the extent of the involvement of the the national transitional council and there are other 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 of the types of atrocities that are going to 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 lower will make it even out of this weekend alive but 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 it raises an number of issues and i think his 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. quirks and the ridiculous

charges of the fueling of some of the libyan military forces that had to be withdrawn because there was out absolutely no factual evidence to back it up dead men tell no tales and certainly there's a lot of tales that you can tell about his various involvements with with the intelligence agencies cia for example he's been cooperating with them for the last several years in graham and all sorts of things that he has a lot of skeletons in the closet that he can do go up and 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 last image situation would develop if he ever was brought before a court. because going through thick and fast it was james corbett i was speaking to a little bit earlier on but if you just to show you this just to remind you the news that we are broadcasting yet to be confirmed hearing in the last hour that government officials in libya say that colonel gadhafi has been killed or course moammar gadhafi ruled libya for the early forty two years before he was ousted back

in august he's paid for all of it takes a look back at the role of one of the world's most controversial leaders. 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 duffy equipped his army with soviet military technology all paid for with money from libya's huge oil reserves during the cold war he opens up libya as a safe haven for the west and to a group 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 for 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 is in the region 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 has promoted billions of dollars of business being conducted between libya and the global community and 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 airstrikes on libya as rebels packed up with military aid

from foreign governments closed in on his last safe haven eight months up. but first protests and despite claims from gets alfy that he would fight on and win one of the most colorful and controversial figures in modern history was removed from power peter oliver r.t. . some of the top stories today take the northern kosovo where nato peacekeepers have unleashed some ethnic serbs pushing away from a disputed border crossing the serbs have barricaded the area claiming it belongs to them as the still don't consider kosovo an independent country rif an option is there with the latest. we are now at the scene of the tensions of this tent of between the soldiers of the case for the nato led peacekeeping force here in kosovo and the cost of inserts civilians the soldiers have come here earlier in the morning as you can see on armored vehicles the riot police three of them behind these barricades all as you can see frightening in full riot gear to try to remove

the barricades that ethnic serbs erected here three months ago but the ethnic serbs they really here in kosovo have gathered here to prevent the peacekeepers from doing that from taking the barricades away as they say nato as well as pay for here in the region not as peacekeepers but they are exceeding their mandate the u.n. security council resolution number twelve forty four the only legal reason for that to be here but there right now rather it's just in pristina in installing its institutions over the course of a over. territory that the ethnic serbs still see as their heartland as an independent state they don't recognize course of his two thousand and eight self proclaimed independence and don't recognize the authorities and laws and institutions from time to time the peacekeepers are using loudspeakers addressing to the crowd and calling on that to disperse and threatening otherwise force would

be used and from time to time they use in these words which is packed with gas pepper spray this is something like a tear gas it has the same impact on human being as the tear gas has but serbs are not ready to surrender as they say they are protecting themselves with masks using special liquid to wash their eyes and they say they will be here until the very and as long as it is needed to protect their rise from time to time the leader is of the serbs here are addressing crowds calling on. remain calm and peaceful as much as possible but as you can see the situation may looks to people but this is very dramatic this is an absolutely no we situation and tension is very high and it's boiling. all the time last month when he came forward tried to remove the barricades by force they used tear gas against protesters and rubber bullets

even at least seven civilians have been injured and this time is about fears are growing that it's could be violent and they could be large and victims from both sides. correspondent on the border the troubled border grief a nationalist get some reaction in the serbian capital from political analyst legs on the profits joining us live on xander thanks for being on r.t. nato forces are supposed to be that. they're ok nato forces supposed to be there to keep the peace is that what they're doing though do you think the mother there are actually fomenting conflict and vera actually. the church bishops here in serbia have surged over the last few days nato forces are actually seeing in the in the same way as the nazi occupying forces that from one hundred forty want to know in forty five percent of the serbs down in course they were telling them that it's

no worse than it was during the second world war when the german forces were actually supporting albanian fascists. proclaiming security in the course of all this this is what make it was doing right now. we expect to see more military action from nato which is going to go. absolutely they have obviously they have no qualms in firing at civilians and they're intent on securing the entire. province of course little for the for the narco cartel that's ruling prishtina right now and this is doubly disgraceful so they're not going to they're not going to stop now that's for sure it's just a matter of who will be more stubborn the serbs who are defending their own brand or the nato forces sent here from who knows where. peace talks between kosovo and serbia failed to agree on removing these blockades that's why it's got this move

one of the chances of any negotiations from a iranian that. well the serbs have tried to negotiate they've even they've even tried to give concessions in the sense that they're willing to let supply convoys pass and supply the nato troops what they're not willing to do is albania and so it's quite close to the fischel from taking the border between costs of running the rest of serbia and this is something that they're not going to back away from so this is why we can expect more conflict because obviously nato is acting as the infantry. the government and priestley not do you think service rather going to accept the independence of kosovo it's a basic question what's the onset absolutely not. more than say more than ninety percent of serbs would never accept something like that especially the way it's been illegally by force this is a this is a land that's always been considered serbian it's part of serbian myth more than

thirteen hundred monasteries and churches are down and across the world absolutely no way the third will ever be local so this is something that makes us going to have to deal with and how does all this going to affect the cost of us plans for e.u. membership in the future. well there isn't going to be any membership that's the biggest issue of all i mean it's does anyone think it's realistic for a place across the world to be part of e.u. i mean two thirds of the heroin coming from europe goes through cos of all it's a place with the highest crime rate probably in the world not the capital of human smuggling or human organ smuggling and trafficking this place would never get into the. you obviously has no plans of including serbia either so this is just a game it's just the membership is just being used as a means that you can search and from belgrade giving the albanians normal average are behaving as delusion but you're actually going to get something down the road

when it would be much easier for them to just come to peace with the serbian neighbors ok thanks so much for your thoughts live from the serbian capital of belgrade politically selig's out of coverage on r.t. and just let you know of course as we saw a correspondent. there on the ground up that tribal border in kosovo updating us for the latest on air as well as online if you don't know your t.v. history mind you she's also constantly tweeting without twitter page and the latest from here you can also get all the latest new videos for you cheap channel to. greece remains paralyzed by the two day general strike as thousands agreed to continue to protest against the country against those new budget cuts parliament stupid vote on another round of the intensely unpopular sturdy measures needed to secure a continued payment from an international bailout fund to get later on this story today that it is rumbling on a lot surface there for us so. again what is the situation in the greek capital like at the moment it was rowdy we can hear it again now bring us up to date. we

saw this in the paper is themselves on the street that is today still united in opposition to the government. is there an apartment building at the moment that we serve an arab guy fights breaking out and those two kids are the protesters themselves one side getting militant cult thousand trying would seem like fireworks there's still a lot of tension the riot police did me then try to separate the two graves to the large gathering you can see the name and outside the parliament building these are the people who have been trying from the very beginning to keep this protest peaceful and after the violent clashes we saw yesterday this morning when i was speaking to than they were saying you know they were really wanting to remain on the streets and to make their point that the do it in a peaceful way so they were very very much against any violence being used at that point to the riot police at the moment have managed to separate the t. case but it does remain tense here on the street he can see we still can't

a lot of people a lot of riot police as well as still very very angry and was very important here is with a lot of these violent clashes that we seeing with scenes like this is not to lose sight of what this is actually about because it is easy to get close up in those types of in and it is that actually people it's hiding out on the streets or in the hundreds of thousands is the government and the measures that they are trying to history to meet the demands of the year is a leaders of the troika as european central bank the i.m.f. and the european commission they simply reached the breaking point and this is a very important week in greece they call this they are getting today and then the year is a leaders' meeting at a nice summit at the weekend when they're going to try and come up with some kind of rescue plan those who also be deciding whether to release the next tranche of money to greece me the people here is that simply enough is enough then. allister's to think that if that's me say what say what if they pass before

starting measures in the government and say most of the euro is a need is there now some kind of rescue plan at the weekend because we seen these measures before and they simply haven't. the impact needed to the need to kankakee this financial crisis or i don't see surface enough was the place to bring us up to date this is our team from moscow much more fuel head including another story called space a step into space you know to be a story a russian soyuz rocket said to make his first foreign launch to aid europe in setting up its own satellite navigation system promising to become a rival for america's g.p.s. has been a bit of a lawyer think it may have been the weekend or we're planning to cover it live whenever it happens today although we hope you stay with us for that and catch it. next there's a class war brewing in the united states that's the stark warning for the occupy wall street movement which is into its fifth week and shows no sign of giving up for them the your warning gap between rich and poor is getting far too wide and

that could cost the government dearly as going to she can explains. a class war seemed impossible in a country were 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 it's only when the which are getting richer while the little class is class a class war is being waged in america today unfortunately the wrong saw eye is winning the so-called one percent of whiners are the nation's top corporations which this year the economy is very slow growth of non the less made record profits the thanks to various loopholes many of these corporations pay little or nothing in practices 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 as 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 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 when we live in a nation where corporations could profit off a child dying at the same time with their parents in a bankruptcy because they're trying to pay for these kids medical bills. with it what does that say about our country the wall street answer to people's rage but the kill wall street will be nobody held great jobs but as one of the protesters

tried to put a word of objection call at all. hold on it's not george i'm talking to these people. who are talking to you. mike you. personal success and money have always being part of the american dream. the aspiration to become rich is equally 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 it could be the end of it and the beginning of a class war i'm going to check our reporting from washington. and elsewhere around the world violence broke out of the streets of the chilean capital as police use water cannon and tear gas to disperse street led protests at least forty people were arrested when a peaceful march for educational reforms that in clashes today strike was 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 well it's been going on for several months now. bad weather still in thailand understatement valleys where people in bangkok are heading for higher ground as the country's worst flooding in decades threatens the small parts of the capital the government says it'll be impossible to protect the city from the disaster as the prime minister's declared a national crisis over three hundred people have died in those floods 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 worth of damage or that figure is expected to rise to. the first of a launch of a russian rocket for a western platform has been temporarily suspended because it's a technical difficulties carrying a european satellite navigation system called galileo the rockets no shuttle to set off from space from french guiana of friday. reports of a promising project. drivers find g.p.s.

navigator can often be inaccurate and actually cartel in built up zones but the new e.u. competitor called galileo promises made to point precision even in open areas where buildings currently most g.p.s. coverage send the satellites into orbit europe's chosen the soyuz launcher with its own rival track record by far the most. playful in the world. and i'm with. we. 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 country actually contributes to industrial scientific and technical cooperation for example. it is important step on the way to reason the level of quality of our business ties and diversification of structures the man in charge of the launch that is for superior to the us system

is clear that it would be a major problem to go but it should galileo's first satellites a lifting off from french going on all the earth rotates falls to hear my view point six giving an ideal catapult effect on takeoff i beat you around the clear skies and you have the perfect conditions for launching its base america's g.p.s. has enjoyed a monopoly on the world market till now with so use also behind washers answer to g.p.s. known as glue ness competition in the sky is about to get just a little more crowded than you will sure see french guiana. well be well fingers crossed r.t. said to broadcast that historic soyuz launch live on friday at around ten thirty g.m.t. and stay with us for the full coverage from french guiana. coming up shortly as romania approved the placement of elements of a u.s. army beside a phone system on its soil going off speaks to the head of the state duma foreign

affairs committee about what impact that might have on the u.s. russian relations spot soon enough for the latest business right now with yulia. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update our top story this hour russian investment group capital and a branch of oil trading giant the tall have won a tender to build an all terminal in rotterdam in the netherlands march is going to go with new has been following the deal over to you get. well this really is a huge piece of news it's a huge deal the terminal is expected to cost up to one billion dollars already rotterdam is a huge help for russian oil nearly a third of all the old go through russian oil so this figure is only likely to increase but in terms of how much sense this deal makes a good competent seaman off here is going to help me talk me through it. is this a good deal possible capital are they going to benefit from it you know of course

it's a very good deal for so much capital and i think not only capable but for all oil companies so we should try to export oil. because you know it's in the future will stay the job crushing to duration to increase our exports through baltic sea and to decrease our expertise available for old pipes so-called used by a point system because now we have. forty three more construction you want to move this year we'll finish the construction of the second drunk i mean the second stage will bolt if i can see some to do with a serious increase in the capacity approximately seventy million tons per year so that is why we see that we are try to increase our exports from baltic sea it means that of course it will be very simple here for. our business you know them i mean to take two years to take this oil of them to sell the sort of thing we find is

that the other accounts you must that you knew of so it's very logical for that but the whole russia as a country russia the foreign minister a lot of significance to having this new network of ports and particularly having this new hub in interrupted oh it's an interesting question why because if you for example even try to compare oil business was his business and we see that all at themself russian companies from companies to buy something downstream of the euro and we see the big a negative reaction of european regulators and. in oil business we see a very good examples and the story we summa gave of the look of them in my presence a good example that russian business can buy sampson's european downstream and europe is up against it that is what in my view it's a very good deal for all concert because we see that. they are welcome in the business that means that maybe in other sectors of and as you. will also be you.

could also help the swarm will come and there will be no ask you a serious political reasons possible using these i don't know for as analogy would happen or something so you're saying that europe has got nothing to fear at all from from just actually let them do the these deals we can try to explain to you are a bit it's just business it's our money we try to invest it we try to live in large of the. world we try to invest money through european goes through with a part of our. own business so we're producing oil the same who do you want to do it it must be no political free as europe must be not scared about this increase in the russian investment to european downstream thank you thank you constantin just one note about this of course today a present of it was meeting with the dutch prime minister and one of the things that he said quite apart from russian investment into western europe expect some sort of reset for cation companies to carry on investing even more into russian

energy resources inside russia. parties eager to go to a different school for this indeed and that frets up the business all day stay tuned for the headlines next with catherine.

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