it's just after one am here in the russian capital you're watching r t and now let's begin with the breaking news story from libya where government officials have confirmed the death of colonel gadhafi but the news comes from the city of sirte to which has reportedly been overrun by m.t.c. forces and we've been looking at this british it appears to be footage of the wounded colonel being taken captive official say get off we had serious injuries to go through legs but we've since heard from the national transitional council of the colonel later died from his wounds one of gadhafi songs has also reportedly been killed in sirte but his eldest son and heir saif ali has reportedly been captured alive and that's alice is now from u.s. base political cartoonist columnist and author ted rall obvious a role in the killing of gadhafi is being hailed by the west as

a major victory but do you think it's really something that should be celebrated. well it's never a good thing when someone dies i certainly could understand why victims of that colonel gadhafi regime would be happy today but as an american i think we need to question the way that this death is unfolded you know apparently there are reports that a nato drone was used on american drone in conjunction with a french nato air strike when was this was used against the president could off east convoy and that he was driven out and then allowed to essentially be roughed up and probably just summarily executed even though he was captured alive there are a lot of questions here and i certainly would have preferred to have seen president gadhafi put on trial in a legal fashion rather than executed this is very reminiscent of the assassination of osama bin laden it's getting to be a cottage all right well it has taken the situation has taken one away one path if

you will but do you think nato would have preferred to see a gadhafi stand trial at the hague or is this the outcome that they had wanted. well when you use a drone plane in an airstrike it's clear that you're not trying to bring someone to justice in any way other than to kill them in this particular case it was clearly an attempted assassination attempt in conjunction with the t.n.c. in libya and since there are neato forces on the ground compote covert and overt there are american assets on the ground there over it and covert it certainly would have been possible to arrest gadhafi and bring him in alive they obviously decided not to do that ok let's move on to the military intervention that nato had said that it will not end with the capture death of the colonel given that how long do you think the alliance will remain in libya well i've heard reports that they're planning to stop the air war on friday but as a broader point this is you know like all war this is an economic matter first and

foremost libya's very high quality crude oil is much sought after by france and the other nato powers that were involved in this action including italy so i think what we're really going to look at is an economic presence a lot of men in suits making deals in the hotels in tripoli ok i have corso these details still trickling in as we speak and we have been monitoring at the different as news sources we have seen that some arab news channels are making a hero of a young man who supposedly killed the colonel do you think that it's justified. it's never justified to kill someone who is not necessary to be killed if you take a prisoner in a war it's a standard law of who are that you must take give that prisoner quarter and treat them decently and keep that in jail them and feed them and treat their rooms and these are basic rights that are have been understood to have been at play and

various wars for hundreds and even thousands of years so this is nothing more than an act of barbarism unless gadhafi came out guns. lazing couldn't be brought down any other way it's inexcusable but you know right now it has to be said that it did take a while for sir to fall and also bunny well now there have been a good office still has loyalists so what do you think will will happen to the remaining pockets of resistance soon do you think a new loyalist leader will emerge or is the five well actually over and have all the oil this essentially left well the. people's loyalties can be bought and other people's loyalties are for making the. things in these kinds of scenarios people can tell which way the wind is blowing and they're going to lay low and i would say that this is dangerous for now but is it would hurt in the long run. when you turn on that bill thanks very much for your thoughts talking to us live from new york

political cartoonist columnist and author ted rall thanks again thank you and of course we'd also like to know what you think about the death of colonel gadhafi and we're asking here today with gadhafi that what happens that libya and so far the most popular response is west guarded oil fields surrounded by chaos will emerge and years of painful as slow recovery comsec it now some of you say that the colonel's death will lead to a green zone in tripoli and travel control elsewhere and only four percent of you say that election reform and prosperity will come to libya now you just go to r.t. dot com and cast your vote. a greek lawmakers have passed a new round of austerity measures that have led to violent protests on the streets of athens between rival groups of protesters well they already say one person died while dozens were injured as more than fifty thousand demonstrators gathered in the city's main square outside parliament artists are firth reports now from athens. people like gander me back very quickly also intactness glad we got to take as

being eased in the crowds we're not sure exactly what they're setting off but everyone's just trying to tell me you can see people being pushed back by the riot police now larry said here good poetry for me for our huge home address all of this of the national defense and maybe tomorrow before her. and asked what a lot of people said they wanted today to be peaceful once again i guess the thing in the crowd this seems to really very shocking we've seen divisions amongst the protesters themselves today everyone united completely in their opposition to the government as it were trying to do for the old political system of groups and for you know who infiltrated. people here do you feel it stream the anger we see not anger reaching boiling point hiring again 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 year and. you know there are costs of oh 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 the last of them as they still don't consider kossovo an independent country but large is what if an officer is there with all the latest for us now. 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 ahmed to be called 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. for here in the region not us hate 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 over. the territory that the next to 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 and using loudspeakers address into the crowd and calling on that to disperse and threatening otherwise used and from time to time they are using these words which is. 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 are protecting themselves with masks using special liquid to wash their eyes and they say they will be here until the very and as long as it is needed to protect their rise from time to time the leaders of the serbs here are dressed same crowd calling on the. 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 forward tried 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. on the ground there and she's been updating us with all the latest on air and online as well so you can head to our twitter page get all the latest news from her and as well as our new video. let's look at some other world news in brief this hour violence broke out in the capital as water cannons and tear gas to disperse student led protests at least

forty people were arrested when a peaceful march for educational reforms. well the two day strike was calling for free and quality education and students also claim the president to distribute the . education rallies have been ongoing for several months. where people would back off or heading for higher ground as the country's worst flooding in decades 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 with at least a third of the nation's problems still water logged. thousands of acres of. dollars although that figure is expected to rise. the basque separatist group has claimed a definitive sissay should do his campaign of bombings and shootings after this week's conference in spain attended by international statesman demanding the group

will lay down. arms called on the spanish and french governments to respond with a quote process of direct dialogue over eight hundred people were killed by the terrorist group in a four decade fight for an independent basque state in northern spade and southern france. for the first several russian rocket from a western platform has been temporarily postponed due to some technical difficulties of carrying a european satellite navigation system called galileo the rocket is now scheduled to set off for space from french guiana on friday artie's daniel bushell reports now on the promise of project. the director of the european space agency reacted calmly to the delay he called a proven vehicle and says he doesn't want any minor issues to affect the launch the organizing committee area espouses liftoff 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. 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 chosen the soyuz launcher with its own rival trick crippled by far the most valuable laundry really in the world and. we. used to hear from treasury e.u. space chief say shows you don't need to be complicated to six the 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 we may use country actively contributes to industrial scientific and technical. corporation for example and. it is important stop on the way to reason the level of quality of our business ties versification i would structures the man in charge of the north says it's full superior to the us system just had to be a majority of the but it should galileo's first satellites and lifting off from french. the earth rotates false to here but the point to give you no ideal

catapults effect on takeoff i think you wrote clear skies and you have the perfect conditions for little chickens a space america's g.p.s. has enjoyed a monopoly on the world certain market till now was so used also behind bushes also to g.p.s. no just blueness competition in the school is about to get just a little more crowded. french. will broadcast as sturrock soyuz launch live on friday at around ten thirty g.m.t. so do stay with us for the full coverage from. 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 fourth week and shows 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 is part of the national dream could espouse and march

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 at a time when the we're getting richer while the middle class is collapsing class war is being waged in america today fortunately the wrong side is winning the so-called one percent of winners are the nation's top corporations which this year the economy's very slow growth has nonetheless made record profits but thanks to various loophole. roles but these corporations pay little or nothing in parts of 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 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 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 and if you kill will be nobody held a job 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 you through your

personal success and money have always being part of the american dream when you reach the aspiration to become rich is the flea 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. a moscow court has found the main suspect in the killing of a russian football found guilty of premeditated murder it's beautiful shot dead in december of two thousand and ten by a north caucasus native when an encounter turned violent greaves now gives us the latest on the court's verdict. took hours of intense to liberation by the jury ending it all important crucial vote now they found that the principal defendant in

this case. was guilty of all charges against him for murder attempted murder. and also when it came to assault now he pleaded not guilty when it come to nurture saying that even though he fired the weapon that killed you go sirrah dog he did so in self defense and without intention to kill or maim or the jury has ruled against his lawyer has said they will be appealing it in the future there were five other defendants actually at this time who stood trial and they will be found guilty of the lesser charges of putin to some kind assault so this all takes us back to the same but two thousand and ten what he says and heard it close a drunken rule between two sides that is spartak moscow fans of which igor syria doll for the past and also those in the dark today who originated from the north caucuses to really gain headlines and gather momentum as a story a couple of days later that's why start at moscow shyness took issue with the

release of bear some of those who'd been involved in this incident but to their protest to mona square just outside the kremlin walls they numbered about five thousand today and so so it has to be said business really high check somewhat by trash is how the time charge seems racist slogans were sore scenes of them clashing with police as well and many saw this is a example of simmering ethnic tensions and ever since this case and more coarsely the verdict that we've heard today has been the spotlight. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in less than ten minutes time but first with the occupy wall street movement showing no signs of abating our talks author and blogger james caan star who says president obama is a hostage to big business while his interview is up.

archie sitting down with author blogger and public speaker james howard kunstler so thanks so much for joining us it's nice to be here let's get started with the occupy wall street movement is seen many media outlets try to ridicule them marginalize this movement as something that's temporary and really an artist teenage behavior and you've essentially called this bogus in your blog let's talk about that what is your take on occupy wall street well first of all it's hello larry that all of these scolds in the media are shaking their fingers at these young people and say oh you don't you can articulate your position you have any

agenda we're living in a time in the united states when the consensus about reality is so fractured even among people who are supposed to know what's going on that we cannot construct a coherent story about what's happening to us and what we're going to do about it so to expect the young people to be able to construct a coherent narrative when nobody else in the culture is capable of doing that i think it's a little unfair. what's more you can tell just from the placards that they're carrying around we know where their heads are at the the most significant or telling one that i saw said. i have seventy thousand dollars college debt twelve thousand dollars in medical bills. i'm twenty two where's my bailout that's a good enough reason to be out there i think so and i think what it represents is very clear it's the idea that this younger generation feels like their future

has been sold out from under them but with major unions joining we've seen a much more kind of mature knowledgeable group of people come out onto the streets thousands of people do you think that's reason enough for the media and politicians to really start taking this seriously i don't know if we're capable of really interpretating what's going on politically in our country right now you know i have a pet theory that the more social and economic distress a culture goes through the greater the delusional thinking gets so that you know as the social stress rises the crazy ideas and delusional ideas and tend to increase it's not a very. good it's not a very good set of conditions for you know arriving at a picture of reality if we compare occupy wall street to the arab spring we saw

american politicians on the mainstream media plotting the arab spring yet this is somewhat of a similar beginning of some uprising along those lines is until double standard a little bit too obvious yeah it's amazing it's amazing that we were cheerleading for all those people in the street in tahrir square you know anderson cooper was down there and you know all the other. usual media suspects were there cheering for the protesters in spite of the fact that there was a very good chance that the outcome of the revolution might not be so good let's put it this way you know the outstanding feature of the politics in the last three years has been that nobody on wall street has had to sit in a courtroom. to answer for the tremendous amount of misbehavior in banking and you know this includes acts that can only be described as swindles and

frauds well people have been talking about the lack of accountability ever since the financial meltdown took place three years ago but we haven't seen anybody come out onto the streets why now and do you think that this movement could end up taking america to a better place at least in terms of pushing politicians to hold someone accountable if just i do think there's a reason why we haven't seen a lot of protests the kind of things that have been happening to americans are very shameful they lose their job they lose their income they can't support their families they can't feed their families their house gets taken away from them you know these are things that tend to be humiliating and shameful and i think that because of the way our system works where you know this is the land of freedom and liberty people blame themselves and they internalize the lot of the bad feelings

and then you know they suppress it because it's shameful the combination of the shame and the anger that's all kind of mixed up with that has not really expressed itself and it may take a bit more to shove it over the edge and may take you know a bit more hardship now in one of your articles you say the hope invested in obama will end up in a museum of lost hopes along with the integrity of t.v. news i want to ask you if this were to be obama's only term as president what would he be remembered like in history well i voted for obama i think that he's probably when all is said and done he's probably a decent chap but it also appears that he's either a hostage to history or a hostage to a certain faction in our culture and economy. like the wall street bankers. remember over a thousand people were successfully prosecuted for the misdeeds in the savings and

loan scandals of the late one nine hundred eighty s. and early one nine hundred ninety s. no significant figure from the banking community has really been even sat in a courtroom and had to answer for any of their their deeds you know there have been a couple of fluky cases including bernie made off you know these are outliers these are the marginal cases but really the heart of the system hasn't been touched i think that. mr obama will be remembered as kind of a spectacular failure james howard kunstler thank you so much for welcome your time . wealthy british scientists some time to.

market why not. 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. more news today violence has once again flared up. and these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. trying to corporations rule the

day. this is our live from moscow let's take a quick look at the main stories we're covering today beginning with the breaking news of the fall of the dictator now this footage is releases colonel gadhafi dies from his injuries after being shot by government troops during his capture earlier on thursday. the greek parliament now says a new tough austerity measures as protests on the streets of greece continue to paralyze the country for the second day and one person of reported dead and dozens injured in clashes between rival groups of protesters. piece of breakers and nato for.