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watch it around the world but pressure is being raised about his execution at the hands of an angry mob and the broadcasting images of his body. part of the week when younger of thousands prigs go on to the streets for more violent clashes with police as lawmakers agree to deeper cuts tend to stave off debt default. nato peacekeepers use tear gas and pepper spray against ethnic serbs to remove barricades and to disputed border in northern kosovo. ten am in moscow i'm not good to have you with us here on r t our top story libya turns a new page in its history of calling the killing of ousted dictator colonel moammar gadhafi he was apparently shot dead in a crossfire during an assault in his hometown of sirte is that was overrun by the
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forces of the new government but footage of khadafi he's dead and broken body was so graphic some are wondering why it was broadcast for the public to see or he's ivor bennett takes a look. these frenzied moment is about as far as it gets from a trial at the hague. but the death of gadhafi is now being cheated around the world right now. even by those who champion democratic justice. and britain salute your courage and while we are proud of the rule that we break down we know this was your revolution from your bravery you showed the well you would get rid of educator do you accuse freedom a long way from cameron's insistence they could definitely be put on trial in d.c. fighters were even dissuaded from
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a shoot to kill policy agreeing in august they'll take him alive i don't think you've got a particularly fair 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 what i believe was a very proper operation from the start and as a side 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 fuelled by this gruesome footage of it that these bodies splashed across headlines pleaded for world and 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 catch it clearly didn't last long some suggest an execution and question why this is now being applauded he was assassinated after he was one that this is
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a very handy as crime against one that man and the other public will see it as such of course to people who dislike or dislike the way he was killed they think this tells you something about the morality of the so-called revolutionaries is these 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 did they take her or not is the reporter with son. stimulation the images have been labeled her if it this tweet says the b.b.c. wouldn't have used the images for anyone else another suggestion as to how the competition sally bercow a prominent activist in the u.k. says she sees where the same wasn't done for bin laden back then obama refused to release the images saying it could incite more violence or be used as propaganda for good daffy the vultures are too quick other than its arty. nato is
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now expected to declare an end to its bombing campaign in libya it was aimed at protecting civilians but critics say the alliance orchestrated the operation to capture and wanted him dead rather than in court when the libyans are celebrating the death of a dictator and western leaders hailing a transition to democracy but as r.t. is going to sit here and reports that may not be inevitable. hillary clinton on a surprise visit to tripoli. today for the killing of the ousted leader leader where she was quoted as saying the u.s. hopes to see khadafi killed or captured sunni they captured scenario might have put off in the top of the egyptian leaders through the field or those of iraq's saddam hussein but a trial over colonel could out you would have no doubt steered even more controversy it theirself gaddafi was very convenient for to leave european powers for the u.s. if you went to the hague you would spill the beans of all that there are two deals there at this for real politic between the west in
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a developing country like libya nobody wanted that median transitional government official saying oh my god he was born adding a grain underneath the road in open country site near the city of sirte please don't shoot was allegedly heard at the site many point out similarities to the capture of saddam hussein he was discovered in a small underground pool crew sealed next to farm buildings near his own hometown date but unlike sadam who was captured alive by u.s. forces colonel gadhafi was reportedly shot dead by leading transitional authorities and not without the help of the u.s. and american defense official claimed a u.s. predator drone along with the french trying to get hit could out these convoy thursday morning as they were trying to escape effectively handing them over to the lead in forces on the ground there are still unanswered questions about what happened to promote the how was he killed obviously die but clearly i think
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one of the four external intervention and all of nato. rebels in benghazi may not have been able to achieve their objective nato's u.n. mandate was to protect libyan civilians but it quickly became to get rid of gadhafi and prop up a government which is now in power only thing. through the support of the allied forces and i think we'll see. not a new democracy in libya but a new reorganization of the libyan political and economic. institutions to the benefit of those who brought the national transitional council to power it will be for the benefit of the united states oil companies for the benefit of the british and the french are perhaps the italian oil companies they're the big winners here in the meantime western leaders are celebrating league is transition to democracy and i'm proud of what the libyan people and i think an enormous opportunity had a very a lot of challenges as well but we have now given them the opportunity for the
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truth of the world that's what the u.s. president did not mention in his celebrate for his speech was scores of legions killed the needle strikes widespread violations of human rights are reported in today's league there was no water. there is no. medication even oxygen in the hospital they don't have the situation in sudan. because i see that i can assure you that if you swim. through the city no spirits which is disaster it's a catastrophe. is now brimming with graphics seeks premiss of most likely gotten their hands on the vast armories left. as foreign leaders transition to democracy the people who are now in power there have not been chosen by believing people and many libyans fear that when the time comes to vote the choice
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will have already been made for them i'm going to check our reporting from moscow r.t. . international consulting bono says the killing of gadhafi will only see a change from one dictatorship to another. now the gadhafi that i'm very worried first of all about the fate of the libyan people they are now discovering that change their dictatorship for another one neoliberal nato led to shit i'm worried that libya will now become a bridge for the for the conquest of africa actually the first steps have already been taken for obama recently. some advice this so-called advise to uganda another reason where there's a lot of conflict and also a lot of economic interests i think the plan is i can understand from an emotional point of view that people are celebrating the demise of dictators they will some form of change for another one these rebels are led by people
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who are from. were former ministers from the canal from that they have interests that state they already from the so much of the economic assets to other countries to france to the u.s. to germany and other countries and they're not going to get some democracy getting in the way to change those agreements stay with us here on r t still ahead a historic watch all the hours to go before europe's worst ever sat nav system launched into space aboard a russian soyuz rocket. got bit by wall street movement fast becoming a profitable brand in itself hard to phase out using the financial instability to make a quick buck. but first greece wakes up this morning to a new age of austerity in parliament passed a fresh package of pay cuts and tax hikes and stave off bankruptcy a decision that met with a violent unrest in the streets of athens as r.t.
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sarah for reports. processor become a regular occurrence during praying for the behind the five things the growing public angry because of there's a lot that means to the people here in the country has been cut to their wages fire out thirty percent in most cases out of about five five cantons the public funding unemployment here in the country is cripplingly high within the americans of a new generation of timeless these measures really nice things have affected everyone here in great. i didn't. hear. that. and. you come up close sort of five one of the nice sort of the people who want to fight peacefully because we want our lives calm.
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the young and the o's people from all walks of quique life to institute a protest the largest squeeze a seen since the crisis began one and they say violence to the truth could push forward for our rights but it wasn't just the anger once again boiling eva with fights breaking out not just with the police but amongst the protesters he sells greek society is facing a social disaster for the past two years we've received austerity package after austerity package in the name of the crisis people are beyond third breaking point they cannot stand it anymore. using leaders had announced an agreement to rest if policy will be decided as a summit this week and that's now been pushed back in its internal disagreements it's not a play to the credibility they continue to search and see if they can provide a solution so work when people are going to becoming poorer and poorer they're
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seeing public sector services go. hospitals schools universities they're phasing out i mixed drink the ration of their living style their living conditions and it's not just the phrase has this with an appetite for change they did they was eventually cost some top government officials did a phase when a physician then to think he'd think that in a business struggling with conscience he's not the only one speaking to police major after the protest at the start of the month tell me if the question of the riot police involved in these events you know. it is very hard to describe the feelings of the policeman because there are truly social and professional group who are suffering very comical measures of the government has to to sometimes it is really hard for them to keep part of these protests as working people that's one small they had to take to the streets to protest is even though he wanted to make their point peacefully the rest of europe and the i think it's going to be watching
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this very closely because this is a problem that affects great. thank you so you can see what the people in the country right now are willing to go to have that going for the people here are going to have to wait a while longer to see if anyone's now be ready to listen. or there's always more news or click away or to just watch online for you right. here of remembrance for. i think the survivors of nazi atrocities. spent seventeen days on a remote island in ice in waters was held in russia's own robinson crusoe now it's supposed to be a fraud tell you how that happened. along the disputed serve your kosovo war ethnic serbs protesters clashed with nato led
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peacekeepers trying to dismantle their barricades care for troops resorted to tear . gas and pepper spray to disperse a crowd while armed transport vehicles moved in to remove the roadblocks dozens required treatment for gas inhalation some had other injuries serb set up the roadblocks in july when kosovo customs and police began to install their own border controls talks failed to reach an agreement on the removal of the barricades despite a deadline being extended twice serbian political analyst alexander package claims the serbs in northern kosovo made concessions to broker a peaceful solution to the crisis but were still attacked by the peacekeepers. they're not going to stop now that's for sure it's just a matter of who will be more stubborn the serbs for defending their own land or the nato forces sent here from who knows where the serbs have tried to negotiate they've even they've even tried to give concessions in the sense that they're willing to let supply convoys pass and supply the nato troops what they're not
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willing to do is allow albanian so-called customs officials from taking the border between kosovo and the rest of serbia and this is something that they're not going to back away from so this is why we can expect more conflict because obviously nato is acting as the infantry of the the government increased you know there isn't going to be a membership that's the biggest issue of all i mean it's does anyone think it's realistic for a place like also to be part of e.u. i mean two thirds of the heroin coming from ghana stem into europe close to possible it's a place with the highest crime rate probably in the world and not the capital of arms human smuggling or human organ smuggling and trafficking this place would never get into the e.u. and the e.u. obviously has no plans of including serbia there either so this is just a game it's just the membership is just being used as a means of it for extracting concessions from belgrade and of giving the albanians
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normal average albanians the illusion that they're actually going to get something down the road when it would be much easier for them to just come to peace with their serbian neighbors. remember you can follow the reports from our correspondent in kosovo maria if an ocean is twitter feed on line with the very latest updates from the troubled region. in just a few hours a russian soyuz rocket will blast off from french guiana green europe's first ever sat nav system into space the launch was first set for thursday but had to be pushed back a day because of fueling problems or he's daniel bushell reports on how the high hopes of the e.u. lay in russia's hands. engineering change russia's soyuz rocket has taken a monumental step in the country's space program as it comes down to its first launch outside the former soviet territory it marks a new high for russia's space ambitions as well as providing additional funds for
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the country to invest in the next generation of space travel by far the most valuable long playfully in the world. and i mean with that. we would like to assure you would hear from from treasury at soyuz uses a lower cost than the extremely efficient model of construction which has successfully put over seventeen hundred rockets into orbit for more than any of the launch of european space chiefs say they've been impressed with the way it's built rational system very simple and effective it's a very good way off design a full croix from its sister sites in russia's north and the steps of kazakstan this space and the soyuz have had to be specially adapted to handle the challenges brought up by the tropical climate but the benefits are clear the earth rotates for stay here by the equator giving an ideal catapult effect on takeoff and almost doubling the payload that the rocket can lift being
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a superstitious industry packed with quirky traditions something remain exactly the same a piece of rock has even been taken from the launch pad in north we russia's pioneering cosmonaut yuri gagarin left to become the first man in space and built into the site the first mission for soyuz is to launch two satellites of galileo a new e.u. satellite navigation project designed to global the american g.p.s. system politicians also think it can launch a new partnership between europe and russia we may use our country are going to contribute to industrial scientific and technical cooperation for example in the aerospace field. what is important stop on the way to raising the level of quality of our business highest reversal for creation of structures with russia's being trusted with the world's space programs because of its own royal tripe record dating back over a hole for centuries america's g.p.s. has enjoyed a monopoly on the world's sat nav market till now it's also behind russia's also
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the g.p.s. known as blue nes competition in the school is about to get just a little more crowded than usual altie french guyana. remember what happened. here on our t.v. set for ten thirty g.m.t. . you here in the russian european space partnership. the future of the european satellite navigation system. on board the world's most reliable space vehicle. soyuz rocket is gearing up for the first ever blast off from a foreign base. the landmark launch. life. so now to some other stories making headlines across the globe the basque terrorist group says it's ceased its campaign of bombings and shootings spain's leader called the move a victory for democracy law and reason since the group now calls for direct open
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talks with spain and france about independence the separatist group killed eight hundred twenty nine people in spain over the last forty years. venezuelan president hugo chavez claims he's in excellent health and free of the cancer he battled for months chavez address supporters in the venezuelan town of lockerbie stressing his victory over cancer means there's nothing to keep him from running for reelection next year because the seven year old is still largely popular at home after twelve years in power but this was a. bank of his greatest for surging floodwaters with people heading for high ground on news of the thai capital is about to be swamped the prime minister calls it a national crisis saying measures will be taken for a controlled release of the water that's built up in the north of the city since the start of heavy rains in august more than three hundred people have died thousands left homeless across the country. dozens of protesting students who
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occupied a senate meeting in the chilean capital santiago left after getting promises of change students demanded a referendum on a breeze through eventually as education system and opposition lawmakers promised to prevent presenting proposal demonstrations have continued for several months to demand free public education. in this news block finally a time of financial instability some could be making extra money and find it to be a lifesaver that's right the occupy movement in the us is seizing that aki to return to eat by becoming a brand or churkin it takes a look. the occupy wall street trademark be on its way to becoming a successful business trip companies big and small have been swarming to the encampment like games to honey there are over three thousand items of occupy wall street merchandise pins t. shirts and even an occupier's hygiene kit starting at twelve bucks a pack of vailable for purchase on e bay. some nato sauced wants around and pepperoni and
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occupied meat pizza. and neighborhood special sold a few steps away from where the camp is set off a primate with the money the five young she's just been very pristine all to high they just with regular pies are twenty two dollars the occupy pizzas are on sale at fifteen bucks this pizza looks a little good but let's find out if you have the true face of revolution so we have a pizza here and it comes to god he pie people. think i just read a piece like he. appears a little greasy but i can taste the potential of change and it's cold revolutions are cold. as you go at the masters it's a slight victory. here progress because my protesters don't seem to mind but
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businesses are using the occupy wall street name to stir up sales part of the reason why this movement is so successful is because people in business you know people who theoretically profit off the sexploitation are also one happy with the way things are working they see everyone is just trying to keep afloat in a terrible economy scenario percent you know i guess we're going to be trying to make their own minds. to stop or find ways to keep their doctor turned our mom and pop shops are using the name of the movement to make sales while yeah people make it a couple of bucks here it is not going to compare to the government sachs far too few have much too much and so many have so little is exactly why the protesters are out here a little help from businesses spreading the word just as you churkin o. r. t. new york. it is up next with dimitri stay with us here on r.t. .
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morning and welcome to business r.t. the markets in russia have opened mixed we'll look at them in just a second first of all president medvedev has called on the e.u. not to impede energy corporations when russia and europe with internal directives but push comes of following his talks with the dutch prime minister market in moscow and it's over much better said the use of third energy package hinders gas link ups the package demands the separation of production transportation and sales of energy it could affect russia's gas giant gazprom which is producing and selling gas meter rivera says his business considerations that should be guiding decision making in brussels. the good cholesterol commercial in the energy field everything is good will be good you certainly e.u. directives do not interfere with the development of full scale cooperation and we hope that when taking such a decision business will be a priority for brussels. french retailer or so is this thing out millions
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of dollars on new stores in russia the company is looking to significantly expand its retail network but it's not the only one other international chains like walmart are also in the russian market but also believes they're only competition are local supermarkets. we want to do you oppose towards all three kiwis more than five hundred thousand people if we we want to look three four months of a store will show i promise that. national guard to go off of development of the six to ten stalls you store every year to sweden you simply need a bridge a. one hundred fifty million dollar and two hundred million dollars but the main contributory rochelle russian retailer. need to be looking very fast they are improving every year without doing the business. we feel that the russian completer we are facing in russia are very proficient on from what is a very interesting a strategy and maybe that's why also international more competent there are really
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. not school fast to the russian market. so you look at the markets or was struggling for direction ahead of a crucial euro zone meeting food prices of little impact of the death of libyan leader moammar gadhafi although it could be the only than expected restoration of libya's exports by its readers up half a dollar this hour at eighty six dollars fifty two cents we've just stocks in asia they are trading in narrow range is the best those are anxiously awaiting this weekend's summit which is expected to finalize a rescue plan for europe meanwhile financials are on the rise in hong kong after china said it would allow provinces to issue debt of the national bank of china is that in one hundred percent. this is the picture in russia the markets here too of mixed this is a which is ahead of the weekend which may prove crucial for the market due to the summit on the use of the problem right now the orders my six are actually down
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thirty percent russians appear more willing to spend cash despite the economic uncertainty it was just a service says retail trade rose around nine percent in september year on year and that's of course this places the crisis of two thousand and eight. it's also much quicker than the growth of salaries in the country will look at damage as the second consumption was promoted by a slowdown in food inflation high consumer lending and low unemployment another factor is the weakening ruble and the say internal demand may continue to rise but only till the end of the year as inflation is expected to pick up again. and also one thing growing a very rapidly in russia top managers salaries consulting firm hay group says last year they rose by an average of six percent the highest in europe plus all the top managers working in russia according to the group got bonuses compares any sixty percent near a number of large russian companies have promised to increase salaries this year's burbank is considering adding twenty percent top managers wages as for europe and
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of the limited by the success of a company and by legislation. their lives are next to nothing.
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