russian company makes a major breakthrough she with capital will be building a huge oil terminal and. film all the business later on in the program. was just after nine pm here in the russian capital you're watching r.t. let's begin with breaking news story from libya where government officials say colonel gadhafi has been killed the news comes from the city of sirte which has reportedly been overrun by government forces officials first said gadhafi had been taken alive with a serious injuries to both his legs the latest we're hearing from the national transitional council is that the colonel has died from his wounds two of gadhafi sons have also reportedly been killed in sirte including be influential saif al islam who was poised to succeed the colonel of the m.d.c. had said that the fall of sirte would spell the liberation of libya after nine

months of civil war while moammar gadhafi ruled libya for nearly forty two years before he was ousted in august now artie's peter all of our takes a look back at the role of one of the world's most controversial leaders. hunted through the streets of his own smouldering capital a far cry from when he assumed power in a bloodless coup in one thousand nine hundred sixty nine shunning 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 opened up libya as a safe haven for the west into a groups the nine hundred eighty six bombing of la belle nightclub in west berlin targeted u.s. servicemen and resulted in president reagan ordering airstrikes on tripoli 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 is 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 shunning five star hotels and presidential palaces he stayed in the 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 it. well let's get some more analysis from jordan based analyst professor abraham of mr luzhin if gadhafi is indeed dead doesn't this by the question why did he try to flee to another country or at least escape be a decisive battle for sirte. let's admit the fact that the buffy stood up and fought to the last breath just like he said that he would the guy could have scaped like you said and he could of. ran away but he didn't he fought and he gave away his sons as fighters in this fight just like he promised so i think what we have here is

a heroic stand in the defense of libya against and. brazen ok what will happen now to the remaining pockets of resistance do you think a new of euless leader will emerge or do you think the fight is well and truly over right now. i think what we'll have is a rerun of the scenario in iraq and out of history every time we had a leader fall he has set an example for thousands of followers this has happened and palestine then the iraq and several other places the fuck about freak shows the fight to the death will give an example to all those who reject nato intervention and libya. ok you know if now that there are reports that he has died or been before the rebels had been saying that they would have liked to see get off the stand trial what do you think we would have learned about the events we witnessed in libya if he had stood trial. i think we have to take heed of the fact

that he was caught. and this was shown on t.v. many channels has shown t.v. . clips t.v. clips of cut duffy one the them blog and he was assassinated thought after he was caught one that this is a very heavy else crime against one that none and the other public would see it as such but i have met tonight several yes mr i want to staple really dislike of though that i mean he had been did accuse gadhafi himself had been accused also of killing a lot of people so how do you put that into the context of what you're saying ok a man has been injured and killed. i think we have to put things in perspective this is a political fight against and they led invasion and nobody today that was there and russia or the rest of the world especially the arab world has and the dollar and the more that what we have in libya now is not driven mary's but nato stooges ok i

let's talk about now about the of reports stream media very very quick to jump on reports of gadhafi is that a lot of them calling it a spectacular victory do you think that's justified. i think it's a very sad day for all people around the world who oppose foreign heads of money if you are on site and period last if you are for independence and if you are for the liberation of the third world from imperialism then this is a very sad day for you and the at the only people rejoicing and i'm on today are the muslim brotherhood and their supporters so other people are asking questions i was saying earlier that i've talked to people who dislike free who dislike the way he was killed they think this tells you something about the mortality of the so-called revolutionaries he should have been at least given proper medical

treatment and should have should have been given a proper trial at least if you claim to be democratic and supporter of human rights then you are setting a bad example for the kind of rule that is to follow in the future and mind you that duffy was not the only one killed that way many of his lieutenants were killed the same way and we have many people coming out on the arab media saying that many were caught including the defense minister of the cut out for regime and killed just the same way that thanks again much indeed for your thoughts stan jordan base analyst professor ibrahim thank you. you know well what we would like to know what do you think about the reported death of colonel gadhafi and today we're asking you when gadhafi dead what happens now in libya and so far the most popular response is west guarded oil fields surrounded by chaos and will emerge and years of being boiled slow recovery comes second now some of you say

that the colonel's death will lead to a green zone in tripoli and tribal control everywhere and only four percent of you say election reforms and despair well now head to our dot com to cast your vote. well to greece now where clashes broke out in central athens between rival groups of protesters during the second day of mass demonstrations against a new round of austerity measures being debated in parliament authorities say one person died while dozens were injured as more than fifty thousand demonstrators gathered in the city's main square outside parliament r.t. sorry for its reports now from athens. people again to be very quickly also in tightness. in the crowds we're not sure exactly what that something off but everyone's just trying to. keep this back by the riot police not aware that in england it won't really follow needs all the draft all of that she will do.

to blow. a lot of people that they wanted today to be peaceful once again. the crowd. really very shocking we've seen divisions amongst the protests itself today everyone united completely in their opposition to the government. holding all the political system of groups and vulnerable. people hit the fill it stream the angry we see now anger reaching boiling point live in it and here on the streets of athens. it's an extremely volatile situation that the rest of europe and the usa needs going to be watching this very closely because this isn't just a problem that affects greece it is a situation that affects the entire eurozone all right well let's go to northern kossovo now where nato peacekeepers have unleashed tear gas on ethnic serbs pushing them away from a disputed border crossing the serbs had barricaded the area claiming it belongs to

them as they still don't consider kossovo an independent country artist many of the national is there with the latest for us now. we are now at the scene of the tensions of this tent of 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 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 the 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 and using loudspeakers addressing to the crowd and calling on that to disperse and threatening otherwise would be used and from time to time they are using these words which is gas pepper spray this is something like tear gas it has the same impact on human beings 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 till the very end as well as it is needed to protect their

rise from time to time the leaders of the serbs here are dressed in crowd calling on. to 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 tensions are very high and it's boiling. all the time last month when he came for try to remove the barricades by force they used tear gas against protesters and rubber bullets even and 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. that was artie's but if a national on the ground in kossovo there and she's updating us with all the latest on air and online as well you can head to our twitter page for all the latest tweets from her and can also get all our new videos by our he tube channel. now

there's a class war brewing in the united states that's a stark warning from the occupy wall street movement which is into its fifth week and show no sign of giving up well for them the yawning gap between rich and poor is getting far too wide and that could cost the government dearly. explains. a class war seemed impossible in a country where being wealthy east part of the national green. thousands march on wall street and in other parts of america protesting against the system that they claim works only for the benefit of the super rich individuals and corporations many ask whether america is facing a class war that at a time when the rich are getting richer while the middle class is class a class war is being waged in america today unfortunately the wrong saw is what 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 to 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 speech there were up slightly a few thousand 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 when we live in a nation where corporations can profit off a child dying at the same time put their parents in a 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 and if you kill will still be nobody you know great jobs but as one of the protesters try to put a word of objection we 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 be part of the american dream when you reach 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. let's have a quick look at some other world news in brief this hour violence broke out in the

streets of the capital as police use water cannons and tear gas to disperse the protests at least forty people were arrested what a peaceful march for educational reforms and that in clashes with a two day strike was calling for free and quality education students also claimed that president bailing to distribute the wealth from a recent copper price boom she lost education rallies have been ongoing for several months now. and in thailand are people in a bad call for heading for higher ground as the country's worst flooding in decades threatens to swamp parts of the capital the government says it will be impossible to protect the city from the disaster as a prime minister declared a national crisis over three hundred people have died in floods since july but 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 although that figure is expected to rise. for the first several launch of a russian rocket from

a western a platform has been temporarily postponed due to some technical difficulties we're carrying a european satellite navigation system called galileo the rocket is now scheduled to set off for space from french guy on on friday bush will reports now on the promise of project. the director of the european space agency reacted calmly to the delay he called soyuz a proven vehicle and says he doesn't want any minor issues to affect the launch the organizing committee area and its passes lift off may be put back to friday seven thirty am local time or saturday its head also insists the problem is not serious issues with refueling valves on launch vehicles are fairly common but on officially there's talk at the space center that the launch may be postponed for longer to make sure everything goes smoothly soyuz has by far the world's best launch success rate with over ninety percent of it seventeen hundred plus takeoffs going as planned people who've seen the base in baikonur will recognize the set up here the

russian team behind has built the same joint crater or flame ball around the launch pad to take exhaust gases and noise away from the rocket much of the equipment is built in russia before being shipped to french guyana the e.u. says it wants this to be as successful as the base in russia with the aim of sending an improved version of america's g.p.s. into space more on the project in this report drivers find g.p.s. navigator can often be inaccurate and actually cartel to built up zones but the new e.u. competitor called galileo promises meets a point precision even in urban areas where buildings currently most 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 laundry for in the world. and i mean. we we are glad to hear from treasury and e.u. space chief say shows you don't need to be complicated to succeed russian 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 we may use a contrary actually contributes to industrial scientific and technical. corporation for example and. it is an important step on the way to raising the level of quality of our business ties and diversification of its structures the man in charge of the law which says it's full superior to the us system to just get it to be a majority to go but it should be galileo's first satellites a diff to go from french guiana the earth rotates false to here by view point six 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 sat nav market till now with so use also behind bushes also to g.p.s. no just blueness competition in the school is about to get just

a little more crowded. see french guiana a little way have declared this year as one of remembrance for the country's holocaust victims but that doesn't include focusing on the brutality of the people interred under the nazis as are his policy reports it's trying to sue the survivors instead. who wants to be known as a nation of of killers lithuanian is the only language which is even a special word coined that melancholy the shooters of jewels and in world war two though she has wiped out ninety six percent of lithuanian jewelry among the highest rates in europe but despite heavy pressure the country's gotten the weight without punishing a single person responsible they didn't fund because they don't want to fund they wouldn't want to fund they would be very easy to find joseph melamed found the last eleven years ago he published the names of thousands of lithuania and implicated in the killing of jews at the time he sent the list to the lithuanian authorities

asking them to investigate as many witnesses were still alive the prosecutors have only now one said him and they want him to come to lithuania decree known as we do not consider mr miller man a suspect but only summon him to give testimony to either confirm or deny the statements he made statements among others detail lithuanian court victor was of course who allegedly to capitated a rabbi and put his head on a window so everyone could see a man could loose go who reported the imprisoned some sixty jews in a gallery beaten with quo bars and forced fire hoses down their throats water was then turned on so they stomachs exploded all of this captured by german photographers the source of the claims i witness is who survived the wall very competent and in their hands and drag. they are. needed but. this is not the first time lithuanian prosecutors have summoned

holocaust survivors who also took part in the resistance to give testimony critics complain it's a way for us to avoid dealing with its holocaust history this is a campaign of defamation against holocaust survivors who are alive because they escaped the ghetto to join the soviet partisans the only people fighting in this part of the world it is part of a campaign to revise history in the direction of double genocide the very far right model that posits that communism a nazi is a more equal lithuania officially recognizes that crimes committed by the soviet union and nazi regimes are equal and other european states to do the same the nazi crimes should not be excused because. there were some crimes. there in comparatively worse they were genocide. they were trying to wipe out

a whole people and so instead of focusing on an eighty six year old holocaust survivor many say lithuanian authorities should rather at least be opening an investigation and doesn't made faces willing to participate in a base today said the reason he believes the lithuanians are trying to run someone if they really are going to. we. will bring you everything will be. and in the long run that seems the last thing the country would want. r.t. television. quick reminder of our breaking news from libya where government officials have confirmed that the death of colonel gadhafi the news comes from the city of sirte which has been overrun by government forces and i'm just looking at the images that we have been seeing all day and it appears to be the footage of the colonel's body officials the first several. he had been taken alive with serious injuries to both his legs but the latest we've heard from the national transitional

council is that the colonel has died from his wounds and one of the off the songs has also reportedly been killed in sirte but the influential so i fall asleep on his eldest son has reportedly been captured alive again details still trickling in from libya will be m.t.c. had said that the fall of sirte would spell the liberation of libya after nine months of civil war. arrival it's time again for the business update with you yeah but let's take a quick break before that. in some petersburg he's available in hotels a story an. ambassador. hotel patroclus hotel

a true story hotel. and see how this. visit. hello and welcome to the business update russia investment group summa cum patel and a branch of oil trading giant feature will have won a tender to build an oil terminal in rotterdam in the netherlands the deal has been signed the visit of the dutch prime minister to moscow. has the details. the bulk of the conversation between president medvedev and the dutch prime minister about a clue to 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 older foreign partners so heavily involved here and the full cooperation isn't just some sort of their ethical exchange what russia wants is the ability to control its oil downstream hasn't moved to russia and into europe was the western companies the dutch companies the opportunity to help i'll show it to you. discover the drill it's all particular 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 like in behind other countries perhaps not reconsidering its reach or resources 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 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 throughout the

day is russian oil is shorter in greece 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 but distributes it as well. let's have a look at the markets now oil is still trading near its lowest in four days giving up recent gains w t i is losing under two dollars to trade at eighty four dollars a barrel while branches hovering at one hundred six dollars for how. come the russian markets continued their march into red on thursday investors were moving into cash into supposing a possible worsening of greece's economic situation. that wraps up the business bulletin stay tuned for the headlines next with.

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on the back you're watching our team let's take a quick look at the main stories we're covering today started with the breaking news a fallen dictator now this footage you're looking at is released as colonel gadhafi dies from his injuries being shot by government troops during his capture earlier on thursday that is comes from the city of sirte which has been freed from get off the boil list after two months of fighting a bit off he ruled libya for nearly forty two years before be calcified revolutionary forces assisted by nato airstrikes this august. protests on the streets of greece turned violent paralyzing the.