and the greek parliament prepares to vote on tough measures as protests. in the country for a second day. and in business news a russian company makes a major breakthrough. a huge terminal and. twenty minutes. welcome it's now five pm thursday afternoon here in moscow my name is kevin only watching our. main news that dominating all the headlines this afternoon the story coming from libya but government officials say colonel gadhafi has been killed that news comes from the city of sirte which has reportedly been overrun by government forces earlier on today now officials first said gadhafi had been taken alive with

serious injuries to both his legs were 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 bit yet of course to be confirmed that it is him these claims have yet to be confirmed independently we must stress that the n t c is said the fall of sirte would spell the liberation of libya after the nine months of civil war they witnessed there's been comment from russian president dmitri medvedev who's called reports of gadhafi is captured 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. 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 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 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 won't be much of a rallying point for for any opposition to the national transitional council if but if gadhafi really has been taken 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 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 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 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 records in the the ridiculous charges of the fueling of the by the libyan military forces that had to be withdrawn because there was apt absolutely no factual evidence to back it up dead 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 he's been cooperating with them for the for the last several years in their rendition program and all sorts of things that he has a lot of skeletons that in the closet that he can dig 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 loss of each situation would develop if he ever was brought before a court. he was going through

a thick of us that was james cole but i was speaking to a little bit later on but if you just to show you this just to remind you the news that we are broadcasting it to be confirmed hearing in the last hour that government officials in libya say that colonel gadhafi has been killed what course moammar gadhafi ruled libya for nearly forty two years before he was ousted back in august but 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 campus or a far cry from when he assumed power in a bloodless coup in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine shunning 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 opened 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 defiance 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 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 safehaven eight months after the for . those 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 oliver r.t. . let's take a look at some of the top stories today take the northern kosovo where nato peacekeepers of 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 the still don't consider kosovo an independent country if an option is there with the latest. we are now at the scene of the tensions of this standoff

between the soldiers of k. for the nato led peacekeeping force here in kosovo and the cost to insert civilians the soldiers have come here earlier in the morning as you can see on ahmed to be called the riot least three of them behind this very case 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 living 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 k. four 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 them to be here but they're right now rather it's just in pristina in. its institutions over the course of a over. the territory that the ethnic serbs 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 address into the crowd and calling on that to disperse and threatening otherwise the force would be used and from time to time they are using these words which is happening gas pepper spray this is something like 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're 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 leaders of the serbs here are dressed same crowd calling on. remain calm and peaceful as much as possible but as you can see the

situation may look staple but this is very dramatic this is an absolutely no win situation and tension is very high and it's boiling. all the time last month when try 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 as well fears are growing that it could be violent and they could be blood and victims from both sides. correspondent on the border there that trouble if 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 the. nato forces supposed to be there to keep the peace is that what they're doing though do you think. they're actually fomenting conflict and vera actually. the church bishops here in serbia have

sort of over the last few days nato forces are actually acting in the in the same way as the nazi occupying forces from one thousand forty want to nine hundred forty five they're saying that the serbs down in cost or telling them that it's no worse than it was during the second world war the german forces were actually supporting albanian fascists in. proclaiming security in the course of all this that this is what nato is doing right now. can 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 at all for the for the narco cartel that's the 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 land or the nato forces here from who knows where. peace talks between kosovo and serbia had failed to agree on removing these blockades that's why it's got this for me one of the chances of any negotiations for me are on in that. while 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 allow albania and. the officials from taking the border between costs of on 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 of the government in pristina. do you think serbs are 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 done it's been done 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 in cost of all absolutely no way the third will never give up because of all this is something that mate is going to have to deal with and how is all this going to affect and cost of his 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 places like kosovo to be part of e.u. i mean two thirds of the heroin coming from ghana standing to europe goes through the course of all it's the place with the highest crime rate probably in the world not the capital of arms human smuggling or human organ smuggling and trafficking this place would never get into the. e.u.

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 of the extract you can search and from belgrade not giving the albanians normal average albanians delusion that they'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 political analyst alexander puppets on our t.v. and just like you know of course as we saw a correspondent. there on the ground out 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 in culture with our twitter page and the latest from here you can also get all the latest new videos via you tube channel to. greece remains paralyzed by the two day general strike as thousands of greeks continue to protest against the country against those new

budget cuts parliament's to devote on another round of the intensely unpopular sturdy measures needed to secure a continued payment from an international bailout fund to get late so this story today that it is rumbling on a lot of firsts 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 a month the playtest is themselves on the streets of athens today but still united in their opposition to the government's austerity. the matches there in the parliament building at the moment that we saw about an hour ago that fights breaking out amongst two groups of the protesters themselves one side using militant cocktails and try one thing like fireworks there's still a lot of tension the riot police didn't even and try to separate the two groups think the large gathering you can see at the moment outside the parliament building those 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 then they were saying you know they were really wanting to remain on the streets and to make their point at 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 two you can expect it does remain tense here on the street he can see we've still got 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 seen with scenes like this is not to lose sight of what this is actually about because it is easy to get caught up in those types of in and it is that actually people are turning out onto the streets who are in the hundreds of thousands is the government and the measures that they are trying to push three to meet the demands of the eurozone leaders of detroit 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 for greece they got this they are getting today and then the

eurozone leaders meeting at a nice summit at the weekend where they're going to try and come up with some kind of rescue plan though also be deciding whether to release the next tranche of money that greece needs people here said simply enough is enough then. alison i was talking to me last hour had said to me say what say what if they pass these austerity measures in the government and say what if the euro is a need is announce some kind of rescue plan at the weekend because we see in these measures the four and they simply haven't. the impact needed to me the country out of this financial crisis or either to serve first in athens there thanks for bringing us up to date this is our team from moscow much more few in head including another store a coal space a step or displacing measuring historic a russian soyuz rocket said to make its first foreign launch to aid the european setting up its own satellite navigation system promising to become a rival to america's g.p.s. there's been a bit of a delay and i think it may have been the weekend where planning to cover it live

whenever it happens today or the weekend hoping to stay with us for that and catch it. next there's a class war brewing in the united states has to start 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 delhi is going to she can explains. a class war seemed impossible in a country where being wealthy east part of the national green but as thousands marched 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 it's hard when the rich are getting richer while the middle class is collapsing class war is being waged in a burka today unfortunately the wrong side is winning the so-called one percent of winners are the nation's top corporations which this year the economy is very slow

growth of non the less made record profits the things to various loopholes but these corporations little or nothing in particular 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 if you killed will be nobody helped create jobs but as one of the protesters tried to put a word of objection call an old on hold on it's not your show monkey i'm talking to these people hold on i'm not talking to you you can. talk personal success and money have always being 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 in fact it could be the end of it and the beginning of a class war i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team elsewhere

around the world violence broke out of the streets of the chilean capital as police use water callen and tear gas to disperse student led protests at least forty people were arrested when a peaceful march for educational reforms and even clashes the today strike was calling for free and quality education students also claim president pinera is failing to distribute the wealth from a recent price to chile's education well he's been going on for several months now . bad weather still in thailand understatement that is where people are. bangkok heading for higher ground as the country's worst flooding in decades threatens to small parts of the capital the government says it'll be impossible to protect the city from the disaster as the prime minister has declared a national crisis over three hundred people have died in those floods since 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 although that figure is expected to rise to. the first of a launch of a russian rocket for

a western platform has been temporarily perspired because of some technical difficulties carrying a european satellite navigation system called galileo the rockets no shuttle to set off from space from french guiana on friday bushell reports on the promising project. drivers find g.p.s. navigators 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 urban areas where buildings currently mosk 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 valuable laundry for me in the world. and i miss that. we we are glad 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 recount reactively 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 they versification of it structures the man in charge of the law which says it's for superior to the us system disappeared it to be a majority of the way to go but it should galileo's first satellites of lifting off from french guiana the earth rotates faster here by the equates to 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 washers on such a 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. well be well fingers crossed r.t.

said to broadcast that historic soyuz launch live on friday at around ten thirty g.m.t. i will stay with us for the full coverage from french guiana. coming up shortly as romania approves the placement of elements of a u.s. army base our defense system on its soil got off speaks to the head of the state duma foreign affairs committee about what impact that might have on the u.s. russian relations spotted on the air soon enough for the latest business right now with yulia. hello and a very warm welcome to the business update our top story at this hour russian investment group suma capital and a branch of oil trading giant the two all have one attended to build an all terminal in rotterdam in the netherlands art is going to go to a new has been forming 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 oil go through out the 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 comes a deal as a sicko deal for so much capital are they going to benefit from it and of course it's a very good deal for so much capital and not only. for all oil companies so we should try to export oil to the baltic wants because you know it's in the future that the job rushing to duration to increase our exports will baltic sea and to decrease our x. what was available for all to wipe so-called biplane system because now we have. forty three more construct a new ball to move this year we'll finish the construction of the second dronke i mean the second stage will baltic by quincy some it will be the soonest increasing of capacity approximately seventy million tons per year so that is why we see that

we have tried to increase our exports from baltic sea it means that of course it will be very you just simply have. to have our business in the three of them i mean to take to us to take this oil of them to sell this oil to refine it isn't other it consume us in europe so it's very logical say that but the whole russia as a country russia the fall i mean is there a lot of significance to having this new network of ports and particularly having this new hub and not the oh it's an interesting question why because if you for example if you had tried to compare oil business was guess business and we see that all at themself russian companies competition to buy something downstream in the euro and we see the bed in there get the friction off your appeal to a this and. in oil business we see a very good examples and the story we suma gave it a little bit of the in my presence a good example that russian business can buy samson's european downstream and

europe is not against it that is what in my opinion it's a very good deal for all country because we see that all with us as they are welcoming those business it means that maybe in other sectors of and as you our companies will also be you. also have this warm welcome and there will be no q to syria about political reasons about possible use in all of this i don't know what the poor as analogy would happen though some say so you're saying that europe has got nothing to fear at all from from the attic live there and with the help of these deals we can try to explain to you world that it's just business it's our money we try to invest it with right wing lies in large the rather than poor we try to invest money through european dollars through was a part of our. own business so we're producing oil say who do you want to and it must be no political free as europe must be not scared about these increases in the

freshman in the west months to european downstream thank you thank you constantin and just to add one note about this of course today at present event it was meeting with the dutch prime minister and one of the things that he said it's quite apart from russian investment in the western europe expect some sort of reset for cation and full dutch companies to carry on investing even more into russian energy resources inside russia and parties eager to get what he thinks want for this indeed and that wraps up the business all day stay tuned for the headlines next with kevin.

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this is our to moscow and breaking news and you know the face of a fallen dictator. must stress that was released of made claims by libyan officials that colonel gadhafi has died from his injuries after being shot by government troops. today but he was city of sirte which has reportedly been freed from gadhafi loyalists after two months of fighting still waiting for independent confirmation of the colonel's death he ruled libya for many forty two years before being ousted by revolutionary forces assisted by nato airstrikes.