just after two pm here in the russian capital you're watching r t a libya is turning a new page in its history following the killing of ousted dictator colonel moammar gadhafi has been delayed after the u.n. called for an investigation into how he died gadhafi was reportedly shot in a crossfire during an assault on his hometown of sirte but the footage of his lifeless and broken body was so graphic some are wondering why it was broadcast for the public to see artie's i bet it takes a look. this frenzied mob is about as far as it gets from a trial at the hague. but the death of a good daffy is now being cheated around the world yes we came we saw our guide. even by those who champion democratic justice. here

in britain we 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 world you would get rid of any cager you would use freedom a long way from cameron's insistence that get daffy be put on trial in d.c. fighters were even dissuaded from 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 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 i believe was a very barbaric operation from the start and as a site 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 he 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 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. more of the so-called revolutionaries this view is also shared by many on twitter there are several posts here already concern about the coverage questioning the need for such graphic images and why gadhafi is death big tater 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 another suggestion or having

a competition solely 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 for gadhafi the vultures are too quick rather than its arty. let's get more on this now from our william engdahl joining us live from germany mr engdahl where this new development the news of gadhafi being killed does this mean peace in libya. i don't think at all that means peace what we're seeing is the gruesome next chapter in what's going to be a mob rule in that country of different tribal groups competing for power and oil control and this was predictable from the beginning when the pentagon started training these these activists and secretly arming the insurgents back over your abilities and so i think libya is in for a period of horrendous chaos after the nato bombing of parts of libya back to the

stone age so this is not an omen for justice and democracy by any means all our lives just talk about the potential it's been being shown all around the world now the u. un human rights council they want to probe into the circumstances of gadhafi is death what do you think about will achieve. well at least it puts the pressure on this so-called traditional transitional national council i think this was a case of cold blooded murder of a man who was wounded and certainly wasn't going to go anywhere and the way it was done to do was just gives an idea of what the moral values are of this new regime in libya and it's certainly not a step forward it's a step backwards following that line thinking that what the u.n. demand you think an investigation into the civilian deaths caused by nato bombing as well as the conflict inside well i think the u.n. should demand that if they if they're at all of the concern with. human values they

should demand that exactly because the civilian deaths that have taken place from the nato bombing and not not so much from qaddafi's activities were cut off his troops. that according to eyewitness accounts from journalist friends of mine there's just been horrific ok you know this certainly has taken the one path of the result right now gadhafi being killed is this what nato had been gunning for to begin with or would have rather seen him in court. i don't think they wanted him in court frankly because. things would have come out about. us activities and things would have come out to libya that nato wasn't particularly eager to have come under the spotlight so for them it's interesting now all these are criminals who are opposed to the pentagon come come to court trial and then suddenly die. you know before they get a chance to have justice or whatever but i don't think they want to get off you to

come to court ok now at this course the whole world is watching but we're portly the arab world is certainly keeping a close eye on what's happening in libya and when they see blood on the hands of both nato as well as the new government spiders what kind of signal could this be sending to other countries under dictatorship coming both from western powers as well as armed armed groups or rebel groups well that's that's entirely unclear at this point i think it sends a signal that a bunch of gangsters are running libya and it's not at all clear whether it's one bunch of gangsters or several rival bunch of gangsters that are under the so-called traditional transitional national council t n c so i think the rest of the arab world is going to be quite cautious in dealing with this new entity called libya will you quickly would you call all of them gangsters or would you also give merit to the fact that they are being labeled as revolutionaries. what does it mean when

the u.s. pumps a billion dollars in arms and special forces training into these so-called rebels i would call them revolutionaries what kind of revolution are they advocating ok and i was just very quickly made to it was not expected to declare an end to its bombing campaign in libya how long do you think they will say that because earlier they had said that they will remain until the m.t.c. you can ensure stability what do you think will be just very quick all i think that's going to be a little bit like iraq and afghanistan they're going to be there quite a lot in common and this is this is part of a pattern that we see of establishing permanent nato or u.s. military bases in these in these crucial strategic areas to control the oil resources and to militarily be in a position. to do other things cut off oil supplies to china and various things like that ok thanks very much for the insight there author aphelion randall talking to us live from germany thank you thank you. now many libyans are celebrating the

death of a dictator and western leaders are hailing a transition to democracy but art is going to take reports that may not be the next step for libya. hillary clinton on a surprise visit to tripoli days before the killing of the ousted libyan leader where she was quoted as saying the u.s. hopes to see could off the killed or captured sooner the captured scenario might have put could offer in the toppled egyptian leaders true or those of iraq's saddam hussein but a trial over current could al-qaeda no doubt here and even more confident that they're still there after those three countries sure to begin working on the latest for the u.s. if you went to the hague it would spill the beans of belt old a dirty deals there are to stuff a real politic between the west in a developing country like libya nobody wanted that libyan transitional government official say ronald could doubt he was pulling out a no brainer underneath the road in open country site near the city of sirte please

don't shoot was allegedly heard at the site many who are now similarities to the capture of saddam hussein he was discovered in a small underground pool concealed next to farm buildings near his own hometown but unlike sadam who was captured alive by u.s. forces colonel gadhafi was reportedly shot dead by a leader in transitional authorities not without the help of the u.s. and american defense official claimed a u.s. predator drone along with a french fighter jet hit could alfie's convoy thursday morning as they were trying to escape effectively handing them over to the leader in forces on the ground there are still unanswered questions about what happened to the colonel qadhafi how was he killed. clearly i think. for external intervention and all of nato. pump unable to achieve their objective nato's the 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 thanks to this. 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 transition council to power it will be for the benefit of the united states oil companies for the benefit of the british and the french and perhaps the italian oil companies they're the big winners here in the meantime western leaders are celebrating leave us transition to democracy without putting a single u.s. service member on the ground we achieved our objective what the u.s. president did not mention in his celebre tori's speech was scores of lead guinn's killed the needle strikes widespread violations of human rights are reported in today's libya there is no water. there is no.

medication even oxygen in the hospital they don't tell you the situation in syria. because i've seen it i can assure you that if you swim. through the city no spirits which is disaster it's a catastrophe. libya is now brimming with weapons experts seeks premiss of most likely gotten their hands on the vast former east. as for libya's transition to democracy the people who are now in power there have not been chosen by the libyan people and many libyans fear that when the time comes to vote the choice will have already been made for them i'm going to check our reporting from washington r.t. . and still ahead for you this hour a historic a launch just a few minutes remain till europe's first system is launched into space aboard a russian soyuz rocket right now on your screen you're looking at live pictures

from the launch pad intervention and final preparations are taking place. greek unions are threatening new strikes and protests against a fresh package of pay cuts and tax hikes passed by parliament on thursday while the government's attempts to stave off bankruptcy were met with a night of violent unrest in athens r.t. sarah for is in the greek capital for us. phrase has a become a regular occurrence theory behind the fights the sting of growing public anger is of a there's a lot that means to the people here in the country has been cut so that wages fire out thirty percent in most cases on top of that. the pensions the public spending unemployment here in the country is cripplingly high and we see in the americans of a new generation of homeless these messes the scenes have affected everyone here in

great. athens. almost that good. and last year our young and. old son five one of the nation of the people who will fight peacefully because we want our lives calm by. the young and the rose people from all walks of life to institute a protest the largest squeeze to seen since the crisis began one of the most violent through forward push very far it's that it wasn't to be the anger once again boiling eva with fights breaking out not just with the police but in the us the protesters themselves greek society is facing a social disaster for the past two years we've received austerity package after austerity package people are beyond third breaking point they cannot stand it anymore. using leaders had announced an agreement an arrestee policy will be

decided as in the summit this week and that's now being pushed back in its internal disagreements yes no the pledge the credibility they continue to say that they can provide a solution. so work when people are going to becoming poorer and poorer they're seeing public sector services collapsing hospice. schools universities they're phasing out i'm extremely the ration of the living state of their living conditions and it's not just the phrase has is with enough to take it change the debate is eventually some top government officials did applies when a position then the thing he thinks that the measure is now struggling with this question is he's not the only one speaking to police major after the protest at the start of the month told me that the pressure to the riot police involved in these events you know. it is very hard to describe the feelings of the policeman because

there are two a social and a professional group who are suffering by the economic measures to the government has to take sometimes it is really hard for them to take part in these protests as working people but once more they had to take to the streets to protest is even the days he wanted to make their point peacefully the rest of europe and they are they need going to be watching this very closely because this isn't just a problem that affects great it is a situation that affects the entire you so you can see what the people in the country right now are willing to go right to have. the people here are going to have to wait a while longer to see if anyone can now be ready to listen. of course you can get more of our t. on our website r.t. dot com and here's a look at what's waiting for you on the line is the fear of the numbers for holocaust victims in. the countries accused of hunting down the survivors of nazi

atrocities. and how a russian man who spent seventeen days on a remote island in icy waters and was killed as russia's own robinson crusoe now seems to be a fraud tell you what happened at r.t. dot com. on the a disputed serbia kosovo border ethics are protesters clash with nato led peacekeepers who are trying to dismantle their barricades here for two. resorted to tear gas and pepper spray to disperse the crowd while transport vehicles moved in to remove the roadblocks doesn't require treatment for gas inhalation and somehow or other injuries subset of the roadblocks in july when cost of the customs and police began to install their own border controls while talks failed to reach an agreement on the move all at the barricades despite a deadline being extended twice sargon political analysts accept that popish claims the serbs in northern kossovo made concessions to broker a peaceful solution to the crisis but we're still attacked by foreign 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 who are defending their own land or the nato forces sent here from who knows where the serbs have tried to negotiate their 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 willing to do is allow albanian so-called customs officials from taking the border between call civil war 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 government in prishtina there isn't going to be any 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 the i mean two thirds of the heroin coming from understanding to your opposed to possible it's

a place with the highest crime rate probably in the world you know the capital of arms human smuggling or human organ smuggling in trafficking this place would never get into the e.u. and the e.u. obviously has no plans of including serbia there either so you know this is just a game it's just membership is just being used as a means of victory for extracting concessions from belgrade and of giving the albanians normal average albanians the illusion that they're actually going to get something down the road when it when it would be much easier for them to just come to peace with their serbian neighbors. as you remember you can follow our correspondent in cost of all money if an option is twitter stream is online for the very latest developments in the troubled region. and around ten minutes our russian soyuz rocket will blast off carrying europe's first ever sat nav system into space while we were looking at the are looking at live pictures from the amazonian basin

where it's seven am local time well you can see it right now but the so yours is on a launch pad for your base in a french guyana and it's carrying the first satellites for the galilei a project that's a year of five point four billion euro as are two americas in g.p.s. the launch was initially set for thursday but had to be pushed back twenty four hours due to some fueling problems well done a bushel has this report on how the high hopes of the russians hands you. engineering change russia's soyuz rockets has taken a monumental step in the country's space program as it comes down to its first launch the former soviet territory it marks a new high for russia's space ambitions as well as providing additional funds for the country to invest in the next generation of space travel by far the most valuable laundry for me in the world and i don't mean to say that. we are glad to have so used to hear from treasury or so uses

a lower cost than the extreme fission model of construction which is six this really puts over seventeen hundred rockets into orbit for more than any of the european space chiefs say they've been impressed with the way it's built russian system very simple and effective it's a very good way of design look a far cry from it's just the sights in russia's north and the steps of. this space and the soyuz have had to be specially adapted to handle the challenges brought up by the tropical climate but the benefits a clear view. rotates force to here by the equator giving an ideal catapulted effect on takeoff and almost doubling the payload that the rocket can lift being a superstitious industry packed with quirky traditions some things remain exactly the same a piece of rock has even been taken from the launch pad in can or will 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 roybal the american g.p.s. system politicians also think it can launch a new partnership between europe and russia we may use our country actively contributes to industrial scientific and technical corporation for example in the air space field that is important stop on the way to raising the level of quality of our business ties and they versification other structures russia's being trusted with the world's space programs because of its own royal track record dating back over half a century america's g.p.s. has enjoyed a monopoly on the world sat nav market till now with soyuz also behind russia's also the g.p.s. known as blue nes competition in the sky is about to get just a little more crowded. see fridge guyana. and us are a mighty r.t.

is covering the launch live so don't miss it in just a seven minutes time that's at ten thirty g.m.t. . see. you here in russia in european space partnership. the future of the european satellite navigation system. on board the world's most reliable space vehicles. soyuz rocket is gearing up for the first ever blast off from a foreign base. the landmark launch. life. and now let's take a quick look at some other stories making headlines around the. world the vast terrorist organization says it has definitely sees its campaign of bombings and shootings of your springs leader called the move quote a victory for democracy law and reason since the group now wants direct open talks with spain and france about independence the separatist group killed eight hundred twenty nine people would spain you know over the last forty years. president

hugo chavez says he was in excellent health and for you because he fought for months trying to address the. stress of his victory over cancer means that there is nothing to stop you from running for reelection next year fifty seven year old is still largely popular at home after twelve years in power but he faces constant criticism from abroad. about his brace for a surging floodwaters with people heading for high ground on news the capitol is about to be swamped the prime minister is calling it a national crisis saying measures will be taken for a controlled release of the water which is built up to the north of the city since the start of heavy rains in august over three hundred people have died and thousands left homeless across the country. for now let's head to business so with dimitri.

president medvedev has called on the e.u. not to impede energy cooperation between russia and europe with internal directives the push came following his talks with dutch prime minister mark in moscow inventive says the e.u.'s so-called third energy package in the gas link ups the package demand the separation of production transportation and sales of energy and it could affect russia's gas giant gazprom which is producing and selling gas medium and that it says its business considerations that should be guided decision making in brussels. that it will look at a short in the energy field everything is good it will be good you certainly e.u. directives do not interfere with the development of full scale cooperation we hope that when taking such a decision business will be a priority for brussels you should as you the russian government aims to invest up to two hundred twenty billion dollars to develop energy in the country's continental shelf commerce and daley says the best move is planned to come within

the next twenty years with one seventh to be provided by the federal budget the government is struggling to improve the efficiency of vast but hard to reach the positives and hopes that no production from the shelf will make up one sixth of the country's current the current oil output a year and a third of the gas output major russian shell deposits include sakhalin fields in the pacific and stockmen in the uk to. save the markets this sell crude prices are feeling little impact from the death of libyan leader moammar gadhafi although it could lead to an earlier than expected restoration of libya's oil exports brant blenders trading at over one hundred nine dollars per barrel. is eighty six dollars fifty five cents. european stocks opened modestly positive gain. limited to just point six percent the footsie as investors await more information as to what to expect in the upcoming year of that summit nicolas

sarkozy and engler merkel have however warned that an agreement may not be reached on sunday but rather at a summit next time. and the russian markets are also looking for direction now there are five point two percent in the outyears point one on the my service investors are still cautious ahead of this weekend a secular towards moving the mice a nickel is losing ground on speculation of the governmental commission is going to check whether its four and a half billion dollar buyback is in line with russian legislation polymaths zero is in positive territory by just a notch today's the final trading day for the stock in the russian market is moving in this thing to london starting next week therefore volumes are very low ross telecom is among the main game is up one percent as the company is considering a buyback of its shares from the market. divel russian ruble shed half of its value during its first day of free float the unofficial and official exchange rates now

match something the i.m.f. demanded from the crisis hit country the fifty two percent drop from the all official rate follows a five week span with three trading limited to special sessions most firms were obliged to sell foreign currency under strict conditions to the states in a new unified open market session is hoped to live in a so black market week about the russian ruble could boost the country's exporters and spur economic growth and that concludes this edition of the business news here on c come up next the headlines. a very warm welcome to you this is your news today protesters on the. street they have to. leave the sentence about your

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markets. find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines to cause a report on our to. tell by looking at your ski screen a live picture shows from our friendship guyana well this is a good first time that this rocket will be launching outside of baikonur and it is carrying europe's the very first a satellite navigation as. system into space this will rival america said g.p.s. system now you're looking at preparing for the takeoff and very you have it there you have it carrying the first satellite of the galileo project and this is costing five point four billion euros and of course this is a very significant moment for the soyuz rocket because it is launching for the first time out.