the face of a fallen dictator this unconfirmed photo was released as libyan officials claim colonel gadhafi has died from his injuries after being shot by government troops during his capture earlier today and this news comes from the city of sirte which has reportedly been freed from gadhafi loyalists earlier on today after two months of fighting much more of this head this hour our other top stories we're covering as well. the greek parliament prepares to vote on tough austerity measures as protests continue to paralyze the country for the second day now. finding things once again on the streets of athens this is. the government's place the stakes this is the bring you all the latest in the capital just a minute. plus peace breaking news nato forces clash with serbs in northern kosovo for control over a disputed border area which the serbs consider their territory. i did business news a russian company makes a major breakthrough you see because of the issue to build

a huge terminal in rotterdam for more two minutes twenty minutes. welcome to six pm thursday evening here in moscow money kevin are you watching r t international and the breaking news again this hour from libya it's the top story today a government official say colonel gadhafi has been killed and he was comes from the city of sirte which has reportedly been overrun by government forces ok well you're looking at the latest live pictures now that are coming through from sirte we were across from a couple of hours ago there was jubilant appeared to be jubilant at least the gunfire. from those former rebels that have been celebrating basically seems a little bit quieter now although from what we can see there these guys are happy.

officials first said gadhafi had been taken alive with serious injuries to both his legs and reporting i just an hour or two ago but the latest we are hearing from the national transitional council is that the colonel has died from his wounds one of gadhafi sons is also reportedly just been killed in sirte as well that's another development in this fast moving story the south in the m.t.c. have said the fall of sirte would spell the liberation of libya after nine months of civil war let's get some more analysis of what's happening here now from us basically goes north of people lemme see even as a say the details coming through thick and fast and again some of it has to be taken with a pinch of salt until it's been fairly confirmed we are seeing various pictures of someone purported to be good. on various channels on the internet but again it has to be confirmed who is in those pictures. first of all than the m.t.c. said gadhafi has been taken alive now the latest reports are that he is dead do you

think they actually intended to take him alive in the first place well i am very skeptical of the release of. his from e.m.t. see whether it's from watching any of the other needle coteries in the. quarters in brussels from the western media i have an independent reports and i honestly don't know one way or another but i haven't you know. i love. the farmer in me. he died near the roof or green can be green is the is the official color of the libyan government's. green community. the official records coming over the western media of loss he is all right where he's been you know i don't know or. early records were what it was so i'm seat. quickly

trails that lean in tripoli and those cameras are will be i think at least twice he was reported killed and then he reported he showed our lives will be stephen we've also been just such he saying ourselves again unconfirmed by another report so this has happened in the last half hour or so but another of the sons we don't have a name at the moment anyway reportedly killed in sirte as well again it kind of we believe. i don't believe i don't believe it i've written several articles in the last week or so including really debunking the major media was to me you are absolutely false so far right sir it is not controlled by the m.t.c. neither is larry while he i mean while he and as a matter of fact neither is not also perfectly horrid bengazi internet or effects what i call loyalist fighters of the libyan general

a loyalist fighters you give me a name you want the libyans who want to live free free from nato three for a nice piece of mercenary fighters need to recruited three for nato colonization and occupation date i resist being if they have guessed that the first of may goes for us in the first seven months imagine ordinary people time down toward the supposed cultural military force for seven months and they still control most nights of libya has starvation in the western media is writing they are lying in the official records are a lie it in the panels call back and forth some of the territory changes the baby who reveals he ended in the end it will boil as well the latest reports i had yesterday were truly buddy wiley search and guys see misrata and

other cities across libya most of it carrying tory who are in loyalist stance no needles control stephen i take it everything you say completely but just looking at what we're saying on face value that's the first value i don't have a name much that i can put to one of a gadhafi sons that we were talking about just that's been reportedly killed the softer news and it's. good that i feel we're hearing it cannot confirm the. because one of the clock by u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton only a couple of days ago said that capacity should be captured or crucially stroke killed you know was not a license to kill for the new government looking at this at face value if he has been killed today but i would say a mets other pieces of their statement alone could and should be indicted as a war criminal even she wanted to put out a contract to kill somebody that's complicity in a murder if it happened of course hillary clinton or obama in the team around him

is going to have somebody war crimes if i take the risk of their lives just equivalent to a court proceedings so to sell or lease things the way i have it and i thought i put out this morning i quoted the very same. maybe she was she was smuggled into truly for a photo op. she could do any be important in the weekend because is this fighting going on all around the airport there's no way a plane could weigh in safely was possible way over the dark you. truly reflowed aware of are you know they have somehow managed to get around who are you wouldn't be lovely if if they tried to get a return helicopter. you know you could because the loyalists have weapons that are able to do things like which we never hear reports about there's only major media we have down some sort of nato aircraft i think some grown and i think a couple of government cars have been sharknado so i mean i mean these these

resistance fighters all you want is their country back you want to be liberated we want to live free they want to rate so to rebuild and live in peace. it is a busy afternoon we got a lot of big news stories all the time for now but ever so good to have in the program and have a stephen leatherman radio host and author thank you. but mama gadhafi ruled that libya for nearly forty two years before he was ousted in the august thirteenth paper all of it takes a look back at the role of one of the world's most controversial media. hunted through the streets of his own smoldering compass or a far cry from when he assumed power in a bloodless coup in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine shiling the west gadhafi 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 terror groups in one nine hundred eighty six bombing

of la belle nightclub in west berlin targeted u.s. servicemen and resulted in president reagan ordering pair strikes on tripoli airstrikes which provoked the finance from kids afi 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 seventy people cut off from trade in fearing the rise of militant islam isn't in the region it's our feet 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 the u.n. passed a resolution to allow airstrikes 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 win one of the most colorful and controversial figures in modern history was removed from power peter all of a party. greece remains paralyzed by the today general strike as thousands of greeks continue to protest against the country against new budget cuts parliament's to to vote on another round of intensely unpopular austerity measures needed to secure a continued payment for an international bailout fund r.t. sarah firth as the latest for you from athens. well we sold the visions amongst the

protesters themselves on the streets of athens today still united in their opposition to the government's austerity measures 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 cult tells and try one thing like fireworks there's still a lot of tension the riot police did move in and try to separate the two groups to 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 final 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 that point that they did 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 groups but it does remain tense here in the speech he can see we've still got a lot of people a lot of via police as well 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 a nice sight of all this is actually about because it is easy to get caught up in those types of in images that actually people it's hiding out on the floor 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 change their breaking point and this is a very important week because they thought this thing going stay 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 vestey plan allude to say be deciding whether to release the next tranche of money that we need people here's that simply enough is enough then. allister's to think that it sets me so was saying what if they pass these austerity measures in the cupboard and say well to figure is they need this and now some kind

of rescue plan at the weekend the case we've seen these measures before and they simply haven't had the impact needed to move the country out of this financial crisis. but correspond in athens sort of. to over kosovo now where nato peacekeepers have unleashed tear gas on ethnic serbs pushing them away from a disputed border crossing the serbs have barricaded the area claiming a belongs to them as they still don't consider koslow an independent country that is really for nationalists there. we are now at the scene of the tensions of this tent of between the soldiers ok for the nato led peacekeeping force here in kosovo and the cost to insert civilians the soldiers have come here earlier in the morning you can see on ana to be called the riot police three of them behind these barricades as you can see frightening in full riot gear to try to remove the barricades that affleck serves 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 known as pay 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 are right now rather it's just in pristina in installing 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 forget nies possibles 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 cast 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 protecting themselves with masses 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 not but as you can see the situation may look staple but this is very dramatic this is an absolutely no we think your nation and tension is very high and it's boiling. all the time last month when he came forward to 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 is about fears and growing that it could be violent and they could be

large and the victims from both sides. of will come to support the serbian political analyst exam to profit should claims the serbs the northern coast of made concessions to broker a peaceful solution to the crisis but still a foreign peacekeepers and they perforce are actually acting in the in the same way as the nazi occupying forces the forty want to nine hundred forty five it's no worse than it was during the second world war when the german forces were actually supporting albanian fascists and proclaiming and securing an independent course of all this and this is what nato is doing right now they're not going to stop now that's for sure it's just a matter of who will be more stubborn the serbs for defending their own ground or the nato forces who serbs have tried to negotiate 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 albanian so-called cross to

officials from the border between costs of all of 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 now acting as the infantry of. the government increased in alt. serbian police to publish talk to me there but his reflection is on the ground in kosovo updating us for the latest on air and online of course you just head to our twitter page for the latest from the t.v. all these videos as well from that area on a you tube channel to. there's a class war brewing in the united states that's the stark warning from the occupy wall street movement now into its fifth week and showing no sign of giving up for them the yawning gap between rich and poor is getting far too wide and that could cost the government dearly is what is going to change you can explain. a class war seemed impossible in a country were being both 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 better time when the which are getting richer over all the little class is class a class war is being waged in a burka today unfortunately the world saw it is winning the so-called one percent of winners are the nation's top corporations which this year and they think condi is very slow growth as non the less made record profits the thanks 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 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 really isn't dollars in tax stimulus that the government gave the economy same erika's largest corporations are sitting on more than three trillion dollars and not investing in the economy unemployment in the us remains over nine percent where we live in a nation where corporations get 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. and then what does that say about our country the wall street answer to people's rage if you kill wall street will be nobody held three jobs but as one of the protesters try to put a word of objection well at all. i know it's not your job i'm talking to these people . i'm not talking to you you can 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 it could be the end of it and the beginning of a class war i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.p. . some of the news in brief around the world violence broke out of the streets of the chilean capital as police used water cannons tear gas to disperse student led protests at least forty people were arrested when a peaceful march for education reforms ended in clashes today shrugs calling for free and quality education students also claim president pinera is failing to distribute the wealth from a recent copper price to chile's education rallies has been ongoing for several months. in thailand people in bangkok are 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 declared a national crisis over three hundred people have died in floods since july 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 over that figure is expected to rise even more. the first of a launch of a russian rocket from a western platform has been temporarily perspire on because of technical problems carrying a european satellite navigation system called galileo the rockets no shuttle to blast off from french on friday he's done a bushel reports. drivers find g.p.s. navigator can often be inaccurate and actually cartel to built up zones of the new e.u. competitor called galileo promises me to point precision even in open areas where buildings currently more ski p.s. coverage to send the satellites into orbit europe chosen the soyuz launcher with

its own rival track record by far the most. played for the new world. and. we we are glad to have for you to hear from pleasure 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. or a country actively contributes to industrial scientific and technical cooperation for example in the airspace field it is important step on the way to resume the level of quality of our business ties and the versification of structures a man in charge of the launch that it's full superior to the us system just gives it to 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 way to give you an ideal

catapult effect on takeoff i beat 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's sat nav market till now with so use also behind russia's answer to g.p.s. known as alone as competition in the sky is about to get just a little more crowded than a bushel of french guiana. well to let you know our teaser to broadcast that historic soyuz launch live on friday around ten thirty g.m.t. org stay with us for the full coverage from french guiana. a minder of our breaking news story from libya where government officials say coma gadhafi has killed the news comes from the city of sirte which has reportedly been overrun by government forces now you're looking at what appears to be an image of the colonel's body officials first said gadhafi had been taken alive with serious injuries to both his legs the latest we're hearing though from the national transitional council is that the colonel has died from his wounds one of gadhafi sons is reportedly also been

killed in for example into the sea had said before the third would spell the liberation of libya after nine months of civil. war that of course in the coming hours and also to come this hour we said there was social critic and blogger james comes to get his take on the occupy wall street movement shortly which is still of course shaken us up next though the latest business with. honda very well welcome to the program russian investment group similar capital and a branch of oil trading giant at the top of one a tender to build an oral terminal in rotterdam in the netherlands the deal has been signed during the visit of the dutch prime minister to moscow to go in and has the details. the bulk of the conversation between president medvedev and the dutch prime minister not a clue to concern increasing energy cooperation between the two countries now this

isn't just empty protocol in this particular case the dutch companies are already big players in the russian market they contribute a large amount of investment in the russian energy sector from all the foreign partners so they're already heavily involved here and the full cooperation isn't just some sort of theoretical exchange what russia wants is the ability to control its oil downstream as it moves from russia into europe was the western companies the dutch companies well the opportunity to. discover and to drill its oil physically that which is located in the arctic in your mouth another area in which there is renewables companies are going to be lending their expertise in producing more new russia at the moment like in behind other countries have actually considering this region resources in terms of its renewables production in terms of specific results of course is going to be the construction of this huge oil out of this huge tunnel in rotterdam now the cost of this project is expected to be

anything up to one billion dollars already thirty percent of all the older go through rotterdam is russian oil under snow but it is sure to increase and so this is going to be a prophet of the specific russian company so what capital which is going to be involved in this but it's also going to be improving the image of russia as energy provider and as one that doesn't just provide the oil with distributors as well. parties eager to go to a new fortune there and the head of the national energy security fund constantin seaman of says the deal is in line with russia to diversify all exports. it's a very good deal. not only for. all companies we should try to export oil. because you know it's in the future will spread the joy of russian federation to increase our exports through baltic sea and to decrease our export was available for all by absorbing all dues we're going to start. let's have a look at the markets now oil is still trading near its lowest in four days giving

up recent gains things are flat with traders awaiting confirmation leavis former leader colonel gadhafi has been killed. u.s. stocks are little changed in early trade while european shares of the euro fell as investors watched developments in talks to boost the euro region's bailout fund. as you can see european stocks are extending losses investors are still looking to stick to the sidelines and meet the uncertainty ahead of the crucial weekend a sea of red all across the board with financials weighing on the footsie and manufacturing companies among the top losers in frankfurt. and russian markets continue their march into a read investors are moving into cash and just facing a possible worsening of greece's economic situation let's take a look at some of the individual show moves in the minds of spine chills are in pain was shouting point two percent bank of morse code is in the red it's net profit has dropped by seventeen times in general june in toronto is flat was

different earlier the company reported a nine fold increase a net profit for the first half of the year. so we have time for now europe today to stay tuned for the headlines next with kevin. the books. the book. the book.

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