and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is our john thomas let's get right to our breaking news story from a libya where government officials have confirmed the death of colonel gadhafi the news comes from the city of syria which was reportedly overrun by m.t.c. forces now you are looking at what appears to be footage of the wounded colonel being taken captive officials say khadafi had serious injuries to both legs but we've since heard from the national transitional council that colonel gadhafi later died from his wounds one of can often songs has also reportedly been told uncertain as well but his eldest son and heir saif al islam has reportedly been tough for the live let's get some analysis now from u.s. based political cartoonist columnist and author ted rall. well it's never a good thing when someone dies i certainly could understand why victims of 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 records that neato drone was used in american drone in conjunction with a french nato air strike was it was used against the president could osses 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 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 and treat them decently and keep that in jail them and feed them and treat their wounds and these are basic rights they. 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 axis barbarism unless you could off he came out guns blazing and couldn't be brought down any other way it's inexcusable behavior 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 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 needed forces on the ground both covert and overt there are american assets on the ground there overt and covert it certainly would have been possible to arrest gadhafi and bring him in alive they obviously decided not to do that first of all the 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 does in in the long run. you know time will tell 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 actually 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 the footage is said to be of the dead colonel gadhafi was so graphic that it has sparked questions as to why it was broadcast to the public artie's over bennett probes into the matter. this frenzied mob is about as far as it gets from a trial at the hague. for the death of get down fees now being cheated around the

world now. even by those who champion democratic justice. i. keep in britain salute your courage and while we are proud of the rule that we prayed to hell we know this was your revolution from your bravery you showed the world you would get rid of any you would choose freedom a long way from cameron's insistence that good deathy be put on trial n.c.c. fight his way even dissuaded from the shoot to kill policy agreeing in august bill taking the law i think you've got a particular trial. in any case but i mean nevertheless the what 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 i believe was a very barbaric operation from the start and as

a site you know this was no 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 is being fueled by this gruesome footage of gadaffi his body splashed across headlines t.v. did 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 gadhafi was still alive when captured but clearly that didn't last long some suggest an execution and question why he's now being applauded hearing he was assassinated after he was caught one that this is a very handy as crime against one that man and the other public will see it as such i've talked to people who dislike or dislike the way he was killed they think this tells us something about the moral. of the so-called revolutionaries this 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 labelled 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 sees where the same wasn't done for bin ladin 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 too quick rather than it's r.t. . and the intervention in libya started off as an operation to save lives but ended actually with a death the death of gadhafi escobar looks into the reasons why the west had to intervene. oil deals in the past decade and also collaboration on the war on terror very quiet from the bunch of. us gaddafi was the perfect ally but then last year in october two thousand and ten that's just before protocol defected to france he got

in touch with french intelligence and they organized basically the cool to starting benghazi and then transferred to tripoli china this is how the war started it was last year in stress in october two thousand and ten until october last year there was nothing wrong with gaddafi remember tony blair going to the desert to you know hailed a big chief serious going to kissing his hand these are the people who remained active un resolution one nine seventy three so do you want it more penetration more deals and special deal wanted me to to have a beachhead enormous in africa this is the big picture the big strategic question the americans also wanted it because they wanted that after it calmed the pentagon african command of bees in africa libya would be perfect and they don't want wanted to meet its red to be a nato leap with an independent could after that was impossible and we would like to know what you think about the death of colonel gadhafi today we ask you with dr deb what happens now in libya so far the most popular response is western guarded

a well fields surrounded by chaos will emerge years of a painful and slow for recovery come second and some of you say that the kind of death will lead to a sort of a green zone in tripoli and a tribal control elsewhere and only four percent of the sale actually reforms and prosperity tartini 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 artie's a center for three points from athens. people like gander me back very quickly also intactness lads we got to take as being eased in the crowds we're not sure exactly what they're setting up but everyone's just trying to. get people back by the riot

police now larry said here goodness only true for far it's almost arrest all of the of unless you all do and maybe two more before her. and that's what a lot of people said they wanted today to be peaceful once again i guess is the reason the crowd this seems to be really very shocking we've seen divisions amongst the protesters themselves today everyone united completely in their opposition to the government as it were traded 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 high when 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 it's a party sarah ferguson there in athens now on to northern kosovo 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 kosovo an independent country or tease me if notion is there with 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 armored vehicles right 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 paid 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. 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 the force 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 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. remain calm and peaceful as much as you can see the situation may look stable but this is very dramatic this is an absolutely no win situation and tension is very high and it's boiling. all the time last month when he tried to remove the barricades by force they used 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 followed and they could be blogs and the victims from both sides. on the ground in kosovo there she is updating us all with of the

latest on the air and online as well just ahead the twitter page for the away from her and you can also get all of our new videos. as well. as. some other news making headlines from around the world for you now. violence broke out in the streets of the capital as police used water cannons and tear gas to disperse student led protests at least forty people were arrested when a peaceful march for educational reforms ended in clashes the two day strike was

called for free as was calling for free in quality education students also claim president is failing to distribute the wealth from a recent copper price boom she lays education rallies have been going on for several months. now where people in bangkok are 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 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 and factories and thousands of acres of farmland have suffered billions of dollars of damage although that figure is expected to rise. the basque separatist group has claimed a definitive sation to its campaign of bombings and shootings it comes after this week's conference in spain attended by international statesman demanded to that the

group lay down its arms 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 tough technical difficulties carrying a european satellite national navigation system called galileo the rocket is scheduled to set off for space from french guiana on friday or he's doing a bushel reports on the promising project. the doric through of the european space agency reacted comity to the. proven vehicle and says he doesn't want any more in the issues to affect the launch the all. committee area is best says lift off maybe 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 rates 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 miss that. we. used 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. or a country actively contributed to industrial scientific and technical corp for example in the era speech it is important step on the way to reason the level of quality of our business ties and diversification of its structures the man in charge of. the law says it's full superior to the us system disk you have to be in the job for it to go but it should. first lifting off from french. the earth rotates stay here by the way to give you an ideal catapult effect on takeoff

at the year round clear skies and you have the perfect conditions for launching in space america's g.p.s. has enjoyed a monopoly on the world market with also behind the g.p.s. known as gloominess competition in the school is about to get just a little more crowded than you see french guiana. will broadcast the historic soyuz launch live on friday at around ten thirty g.m.t. stay with us for the full coverage from french ghana. a moscow court has found the main suspect in the killing of a russian football fan. 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 has 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 our son to chose a cause was guilty of all charges against him for murder attempted murder who did commit them 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 your series dog he did so in self defense and without intention to kill or maim the jury has ruled against a 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 hooliganism and assault and this who takes us back to december two thousand and ten what he says and heard it close to the trunk and rule between two sides that is sparse that moscow fans of which igor series of for the past and also those in the dark 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 a chance to issue for the release of bear some of those who had been involved in this incident they took their protest to manas square just outside the kremlin walls play numbered about five thousand today and so so far has he said this event is 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 more coarsely the burden that we've heard today has been the spotlight. artie's jacob groups reporting for us there now i will be back with a recap of our top stories in less than ten minutes up next with the occupy wall street movement showing no signs of abating r.t. talks to author and blogger games 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 i thank so much for joining us and 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 it's hello

larry that all of these scolds in the media are shaking their fingers at these young people and say oh you know 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 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 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 the 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 you know 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 hosty. to history or hostage to certain factions in our culture an 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 .

i'm sure is that so much a lot of people at your e-mail that is it all come to roughly fifteen hundred occupy protests occurring in eighty two countries worldwide this is against the protest movement was staying power. much brighter. moon and sun from feinstein pressure. starts on t.v. dot com. wealthy british style. that's not my. type. markets 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 two kinds of reports. and broadcasting live from the center of moscow this is our thomas let's take a look at your breaking news right here on our truth from a memoir about the day he was captured and shot by government forces during an attack on the city of syria as acting prime minister announced the death after troops seized control of the city from loyalists. in athens protesters battled police outside the greek parliament while inside the building lawmakers passed the cutbacks that brought people onto the streets in the first place violence erupted after some demonstrators tried to prevent militant activists from the.