capsule just a minute. plus piece break is nato forces clash with serbs in northern kosovo for control over a disputed border area which the serbs consider their territory. and in business news a russian company makes a major breakthrough soon with capitol hill to build a huge oil terminal and write the down for more two minute twenty minutes. welcome to six pm thursday evening here in moscow money is kevin when you're watching r t international and the breaking news again this hour from libya it's the top story today but government officials say colonel gadhafi has been killed the news comes from the city of sirte which is reportedly being 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 in the air from those former rebels that have been celebrating basically seems a little bit quieter now although from what we can see there looks that these guys are happy but officials first said get their feed been taken alive with serious injuries to both his legs and reporting are just now or two would go 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 being killed in sirte as well that's another development in this fast moving story in the south and in the n.t. so you had said the fall of sirte would spell the liberation of libya after nine months of civil war let's get some more analysis on what's happening here now from u.s. based radios north of stephen lemon stephen 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. really confirmed we are seeing various pictures of

someone purported to be good daffy on various channels on the internet but again it has to be confirmed who is in those pictures. first of all then 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 every so-called social reporter karen whether it's from the mt see whether it's from washington any of the other needle countries in this campaign from nato headquarters in brussels from the western media i have an independent report and i honestly don't know one way or another but i have an independent report i love star month. diet net and they reported green community green is the is the official color of the libyan government's solid green. green committee's report the official

reports coming over the western media are false gadhafi is all i used whether he's been injured or not i don't know but they say he's alive early reports were what it was so unsafe was captured and then he turned out of your he quickly trailed simply in tripoli and no sorrow commissar believe i think at least twice he was reported killed and then he reported he showed up alive what we got to steve and we've also been just saying ourselves again confirmed by another report so they just happened in the last half hour or so that a number of good tuffy sons we don't have a name at the moment anyway reportedly killed in the search as well again can it be believed. i don't believe i don't believe i've written several articles in the last week or so including really debunking the major media you're always wastin me

you're all it's absolutely false if i search is not controlled by me in t.c. neither is clarity while he by me while he and it is a matter of fact neither is most of tripoli or bengazi as a matter of fact what i call loyalist fighters of the libyan general a loyalist fight if you give them a name you want but the libyans who want to live free free from a go free from the use these mercenaries fight is need to recruit in free for a nato colonization and occupation and say i resisting if they have guessed it the best of nato ferocity to seven months a mansion ordinary people time down the world's most colorful military force for seven months and they still control most fights of libya gives us time machine in the western media is writing they are lying in the official records are

a lie in the panels go back and forth some of the territory changes hands maybe the rebels get it and then the loyalists get it back but the latest reports i had yesterday were truly bunny wiley searchers in guy c. misrata and other cities across libya most of it carrying tory who are in loyalist stance no needles control stephen i am that i'm taking everything you said completely but just looking at what we're saying on face value just that first value i do have a name out so i can put to one of a gadhafi sons that we were talking about just that it's been reported they killed the softer known it's. a good daffy we're hearing again not confirm the. just one of the close by us secretary of state hillary clinton said only a couple of days ago said that gadhafi 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 well i would say events on a basis of that statement alone hillary clinton should be indicted as a war criminal if you want to put out a contract to kill somebody that's complicity in murder if it happened of course hillary clinton or obama in the team around them it could be that somebody war crimes it might take the risk of their lives just a put them to court proceedings to settle all each things the way i have it and out of that i put out this morning i quoted the very statement you know it may be she was she was smuggled into truly for a photo op. she could do any of the important and we haven't because there's this fighting going on all around the airport there's no way a plane could land safely was possible way to drop through and it's a truly for a refloat a well and then they have somehow managed to get around alive wouldn't be lovely if

they try to get a raid on a helicopter and they shot the helicopter you know you could because the loyalists have weapons that are able to do things like this but you never hear reports about there's a new major media they have down some sort of nato aircraft so i think some grown and i think a couple of helicopters have been shocked at oh so i mean i mean these these resistance fighters all they want is their country back you want to be liberated they want to live free they want to rape so to rebuild and live in peace stay happens or 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 as have a stephen leatherman radio host and author thank you aaron well mama gadhafi ruled libya finally forty two years before he was ousted in august peter all of a takes a look back at the role of one of the world's most controversial leader. until 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 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 opened up libya as a safe haven for the west into a groups the one nine hundred eighty six bombing of la belle nightclub in west berlin targeted u.s. servicemen and resulted in president reagan ordering airstrikes on tripoli air strikes which provoked 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 the shining five star hotels and presidential palaces he stayed in a traditional bedouin tent flanked by a security detail of glamorous female agents his face bearing the marks of repeated cosmetic surgery partially hidden behind sunglasses at all times the beginning of the end came in february political unrest swept along on the wave of popular revolt in egypt reached libya the response from the libyan leader was brutal the u.n. 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. greece remains paralyzed with a two day 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. sara firth as the latest for you from athens. well we sold the visions amongst the protesters themselves on the streets of athens today but 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 fights breaking out amongst two groups of the protesters themselves one side using militant cocktails and throwing one thing like fireworks there's still a lot of tension the riot police didn't even and try to separate the two graves that 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 than they were saying you know they were really wanting to remain on the streets and to make their point of 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 groups but it does remain tense here on the street you can see we've still got a lot of people a lot of riot police as well 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 images that actually what people are turning out onto the streets for in the hundreds of thousands is the government and the measures that they are trying to push through to meet the demands of the eurozone leaders of the choice 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've got this thing going through 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 a low 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 the last hour he said to me so you watch say what if they passed these austerity measures in the government and say look if the euro is a needed and now some kind of rescue plan at the weekend because 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 the cost of oh 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 it belongs to them as they still don't consider cosco an independent country. as their. 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 as you can see on armored vehicles

the riot police three of them behind this very case all as you can see looking 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 all 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 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 well from time to time the leaders of the serbs here are dressed same crowd calling on. remain calm and peaceful as much as both but as you can see the situation may look staple but this is very dramatic this is an absolutely no we say today shouldn't 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 to you guys against protesters and rubber bullets and even at least seven civilians have been injured and this time is about fears a growing that it could be violent and they could be blood and the victims from both sides. wolf will come to support the political analyst exam to prove it should claims the serbs in northern kosovo made concessions to broker a peaceful solution to the cross if it was still a foreign peacekeepers the nato forces are actually acting in the in the same way as the nazi occupying forces did from one thousand forty want to nine hundred forty five it's no worse than it was during the second world war while the german forces were actually supporting albanian fascists proclaiming and securing an independent course of oh so 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 land or the nato forces the 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 albania and so-called cost to 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. serbian political analysts looks on the published talking to be there what is written 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 if you're not near t.v. all those videos as well from that area where you tube channel two. 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 teach you can explain. a class war seemed impossible in a country where being wealthy east part of the national dream 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 the 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 collapsing class warfare is being waged in america today unfortunately the wrong saudi 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 but 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 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 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 can profit off a child dying at the same time with their parents into bankruptcy because they're trying to pay for this kid's medical bills. with them what does that say about our

country the wall street answer to people's rage he killed wall street will be nobody helped create jobs but as one of the protesters tried to put a word of objection call at all. oh no don it's not george i'm talking to these people hold on i'm not talking to you you'll be 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 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 the class war i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. some of the news in brief around the world violence broke out in the streets of the chilean capital as police shoes water kind of tear gas to disperse student led protests at least forty

people were arrested when a peaceful march for education reforms and even clashes today struggles calling for free and quality education students also claim president pinera is failing to distribute the wealth from a recent copper price to chile's education rallies has been ongoing now 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 provinces still water logged homes factories and thousands of acres of farmland have suffered billions of dollars of damage whether 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 guiana on friday during a bushel reports. drivers find g.p.s.

navigators can often be inaccurate and actually cut telt in built up zones but the new e.u. competitor called galileo promises me to point precision even in open areas where buildings currently mosk g.p.s. coverage to send the satellites into orbit europe chosen the soyuz launcher with its own rival track record by far the most valuable long playfully in the world. and i miss that. we we are glad to hear from treasury e.u. space chief say it 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 corporation for example in the era speech field it is important step on the way to reason the level of quality of our business ties and diversification over structures the man

in charge of the launch that it's for superior to the us system to disappear that to be a major problem to go but it should galileo's first satellites a 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's sat nav market till now with so use also behind russia's answer to g.p.s. known as glow in us competition in the sky is about to get just a little more crowded than your bushel artsy french guiana. well to let you know r.t. so to broadcast that historic soyuz launch live on friday at around ten thirty g.m.t. stay with us for the full coverage from french guiana. a minder of our breaking news story from libya where government officials say colonel 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 the south of the m.t.c. had said before the surge would spell the liberation of libya after nine months of civil war. or that of course in the coming hours and also to come this hour we sit down with social critic and blogger james kunstler to get his take on the occupy wall street movement shortly which is still of course shaken the u.s. up next though latest business with yulia. hello and a very warm welcome to the program russian investment group suma capital and a branch of oil trading giant of the tall have won a tender to build an oil terminal in rotterdam in the netherlands the deal has been

signed during the visit of the dutch prime minister to moscow archie is eager to go in and has the details. the bulk of the conversation between president medvedev and the dutch prime minister mark lute their 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 and the russian market they contribute to a large amount of investment in the russian energy sector from all the foreign partners so they're already heavily involved here in the form of cooperation isn't just some sort of theoretical exchange what russia wants is the ability to control its oil downstream as it flew from russia to europe was the western companies the dutch companies won the opportunity to help russia to discover and to drill its oil particularly that which is located in the arctic in your mouth another area in which the touched is renewables the dutch companies are going to be lending their expertise and producing more noodles in russia at the moment russia is lagging

behind other countries perhaps not reconsidering its regional resources and of its renewables production in terms of a specific result of course is going to be the construction of this huge oil hub of this huge terminal and wrote that down now the cost of this project is expected to be anything up to one billion dollars already thirty percent of all the all the go through rotterdam is russian oil is sure to increase and so this is going to be a profit of this specific russian company so much 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 distributed as well are you going to go to a new reporting there and the head of the national energy security fund says the deal is in line with russia stretches it to diversify all exports. so a very good deal. not only for. all companies

we should try to export oil with the baltic words because you know it's in the future that the job russian federation to increase our exports through the baltic sea and to decrease our export was the fault. of 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 on 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 insurgency ahead of the crucial we can't see over it all across the board with financials weighing on the sea and manufacturing companies among the top losers in frankfurt. and russian markets continue their

march into a read investors are moving into cash anticipating a possible worsening of greece's economic situation let's take a look at some of the individual show moves in the minds that financials are in pain was shedding point two percent bank of moscow is in the red it's that profit has dropped by seventeen times in general june into robbers flat was defend earlier the company reported a nine fold increase the net profit for the first half of the year. so we have time for now you're up to date stay tuned for the headlines next with kevin.

more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations are on the day. wealthy british style. markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy

with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines kaiser reports. here in moscow thank you for being with. the breaking news this could be the face. photo was released amid claims by libyan officials that colonel gadhafi has died from his injuries after being shot by government troops during his capture earlier today the news comes from the city of sirte which has reportedly been freed from gadhafi loyalists months of fighting still waiting for independent confirmation of the colonel's death he rolled libya for nearly forty two years before being ousted by revolutionary forces assisted by nato.