my. broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is r t let's get right to our breaking news story from libya where government officials have confirmed the death of colonel gadhafi the news that comes from the city of syria which has reportedly been overrun by m.t.c. forces now you're looking at what appears to be footage of the wounded colonel being taken captive official said to darfur had serious injuries to both legs but we have since heard from the national transitional council that the colonel later died from his wounds one of khadafi sons has also reportedly been tried on syria but his eldest son and heir saif al islam has reportedly been captured alive let's get some analysis now from u.s. based political cartoonist a columnist and author. well it's never a good thing when someone dies i certainly could understand why victims of the

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 neato drone was used in american drone in conjunction with a french nato air strike was 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 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 war that you must take give that prisoner quarter to treat. and

decently and it keeps and jail them and feed them and treat their wounds and these are basic rights that are have been understood to have been at play in various wars for hundreds and even thousands of years so this is nothing more than an act of barbarism unless khadafi came out guns blazing and couldn't be brought down any other way it's inexcusable behavior when you use a drone plane and an airstrike it's clear that you're not trying to bring someone to justice in any way other than to kill them this in this particular case it was clearly an attempted assassination attempt in conjunction with the t.n.c. in libya and since there are nato forces on the ground both covert and overt there are american assets on the ground there overt and covert it certainly would have been costly to arrest gadhafi and bring him in alive they obviously decided not to do that 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 is a 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 first of all of people's loyalties can be bought and other people's loyalties are firmer than that what normally happens in these kinds of scenarios is that people can tell which way the wind is blowing and they're going to lay low and i would say that this is over for now but is it over as in the long run. you know time will tell now the footage is said to be of the dead colonel gadhafi was so graphic that it's part questions as to why it was broadcast to the public artie's ivor bennett probes into the matter further. this frenzied mob is about as far as

it gets from a trial at the hague. but the death of gadhafi is now being cheered around the world wow. even by those who champion democratic justice i don't think it is a god particularly. in any case but i mean nevertheless the war is basically i guess a kind of summary execution of what may well have been a summary execution is a kind of fairly barbaric into what i believe was a very barbaric operation from the start and as i say you know this was not this was never supposed to be about regime change this nato operation but that's that's really what's been the outcome of it the backslapping has been fueled by this gruesome footage of gadhafi his body splashed across headlines pleaded for the world and the people power is not going to be put back here in libya thanks to the u.s. and its nato allies this video shows gadaffi was still alive when captured but clearly

didn't last long some suggest an execution and question why this is now being applauded he was assassinated third after he was caught one of them this is a very handy else crime against a one hundred man and they are a public will see it as such but i've talked to people who dislike or dislike the way he was killed they think this tells you something about the moral of the so-called revolutionaries this view is also shared by many on twitter there are several posts here already concerned about the coverage questioning the need for such graphic images and why gadhafi is dead dictator or not has been reported with such jubilation the images have been labeled horrific this tweet says the b.b.c. wouldn't have used the images for anyone else and other suggest channels are having a competition sally bercow a prominent activist in the u.k. says she see. these were the same wasn't done for bin laden back then

a bomber refused to release the images saying it could incite more violence or be used as propaganda but for gadhafi the vultures are to quick rather than it. and we would like to know what you think about the death of colonel gadhafi today we ask you with the dead what happens now in libya so far the most popular response is that western guarded oil fields surrounded by chaos will emerge years of painful and slow recovery comes second and some of you say the colonel's death will lead to a green zone of sorts in tripoli and tribal control elsewhere and only four percent of you say election reforms and prosperity you can go to r.t. dot com to cast your vote. 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 authorities say one person died while dozens were injured as more than fifty thousand demonstrators gathered in the

city's main square outside parliament are reports from athens. people again that being the bank very quickly all syntagma square as we got to be in the crowds we're not sure exactly what they're setting up but everyone's just trying to get me you could see people being backed by the riot police even as we are they being loaded zero right through fort bliss rivero writes i'm a director all of this of unless you all did we and maybe tomorrow before. and that's not a lot of people said they wanted today to be peaceful once again guess is the reason the crowd scenes here really very shocking we've seen divisions amongst the protests in cells today everyone united completely in their opposition to the government as it were true for all their all the political system of groups and for you know who are still true dood. people here do you fill it steamy angrily anger

reaching boiling point hiding it down here on the streets of athens. is 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 is a. fourth reporting there from athens now to northern kosovo where nato peacekeepers have unleashed a 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 kosovo an independent country or he's made for an ocean is there with the latest for us now. we are now at the scene of the tensions of this standoff between the soldiers of k. for the nato led peacekeeping force here in kosovo and the cost to insert civilians the soldiers have come here earlier in the morning as you can see on armored vehicles the riot police three of them behind this very case all as you can see

frightening in full riot gear to try to remove the barricades that ethnic serbs erected here three months ago but the ethnic serbs living here in kosovo have gathered here to prevent the peacekeepers from doing that from taking the barricades away as they say nato as well as k. four are 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 over. the territory that the ethnic serbs see as their heartland as an independent state they don't recognize course of his two thousand and eight self proclaimed independence and don't recognize the authorities and laws and institutions from time to time the peacekeepers are using loudspeakers address into the crowd and calling on that to disperse and threatening otherwise

the force would be used and from time to time they are using these words which is happening gas pepper spray this is something like tear gas it has the same impact on human being as the tear gas has but serbs are not ready to surrender as they say they 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 leader is of the serbs here are dressed same 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 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. well.

demanding that the group lay down its arms and called on the spanish and french governments to respond with a 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 spain and southern france. the first ever launch of a russian rocket from a western platform has been temporarily postponed due to some technical difficulties 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 it daniel bushell reports on the promising 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 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 says 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 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 laundry in the world. and i missed that. we we are glad to hear from treasury 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. a country actively contributed to industrial scientific and technical. corporation for example. it is important on the way to reason the level of quality of our business ties versification i would

structures the man in charge of the law which says it's full superior to the us system it is clear that to be a majority of the way to go but it should. first satellites lifting off from french . the earth rotates stay here by the way to give you an ideal catapult effect on takeoff i think you around the clear skies and you have to be perfect conditions for launching its base america's g.p.s. has enjoyed a monopoly on the world market till now with also behind such a g.p.s. known as. competition in the school is about to get just a little more crowded than you see french guiana or to broadcast the historic soyuz launch live on friday at around ten thirty g.m.t. stay with us for the full coverage from french. a moscow court has found of the main suspect in the killing of a russian football fan you go to doff guilty of premeditated murder was shot dead

in december two thousand and ten by a north caucasus native when an encounter turned violent artie's jacob grieves is there to get the latest on the court's verdict. took hours of intense to liberation by the jury ending it by all important crucial votes now they found that the principal defendant in this case as i'm sure chose to call was guilty of all charges against him as for murder attempted murder. and also when it came to assault now he pleaded not guilty when it come to an murder saying that even though he fired the weapon that killed your series dog he did so in self-defense and without intention to kill or maim now that the jury has ruled against her lawyer has said they will be at healing 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 who's going to some and assault this who takes us back to the same but

two thousand and ten what he says and i've heard it posted a drunken rule between two sides that is spartak moscow fans of which eagle syria doll for the past and also those in the dock today who originated from the north caucuses to really gain the headlines and gather momentum as a story a couple of days later that's why start at moscow chance to issue for the release some better some of those who'd been involved in this incident they took their protest to manas square just outside the kremlin malls play numbered about five thousand today and so so it has to be said this division is really high check somewhat by trash is how the time charge seems racist slogans who are sore scenes of them clashing with police as well and many saw this is the example of simmering ethnic tensions and ever since this case more coarsely the burden that we've heard today has been the spotlight artie's reporting for us there now that wraps up the news this hour but i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in less than ten minutes next with the occupy wall

street movement showing no signs of abating our team talks to author and blogger james counselor who says president obama is a hostage to big business his interview is up next. 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 we've 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 i think it's hilarious 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 is a little unfair. but 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 send 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 see 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 isn't the 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 court room 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. certain factions 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

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and broadcasting live and direct. breaking news a former libyan leader moammar gadhafi is dead he was captured and shot by government forces. minister announced the death after. protesters battle police outside the greek parliament while inside the building. that brought people to the streets in the first place. after some demonstrators tried to prevent activists from attacking police lines.