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eight am in moscow good to have you with us here on r t there is growing international pressure for an investigation into exactly how libya's ousted dictator moammar gadhafi died the u.n. expressed concern over video footage taken following his capture which shows khadafi taken alive before he was killed meanwhile nato said it's winding down its bombing campaign in the country artes and he said now it has the latest from libya . but there are so many conflicting reports as to how moammar gadhafi was actually killed very different variations of video brutal video which went viral certainly on the internet i lot of the mainstream media selling those images the world watching some people of course and all others just horrified to see this man despite the fact that many people knew that he was completely lost you want to
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thank you very much hated by most of the people here a lot of people horrified by some of those images western officials certainly praising the situation very happy about gadhafi being gone but we're hearing concerns from the u.n. certainly that an investigation needs to be along soon to that and also that backed by russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov who had this to say about the fact that there needs to be some kind of investigation into the way gadhafi was killed and also about when this nato no fly zone is going to end. with the footage shown on t.v. proves that he was captured alive and wounded and after that he was killed later there were reports that a convoy carrying the convoy was attacked by nato planes and after that the rebels captured members of that convoy it has been repeated numerous times that nato planes are new have a u.n. mandate to ensure a no fly zone over libya and the convoy wasn't posing any threat to civilians on
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the ground and could be a legitimate target so nato actions pose a number of questions as well alliance members also stressed that when they began the campaign in libya the goal was to protect civilians i'm not to get rid of gadhafi but now they're saying different things saying they've achieved their goal in libya although the u.n. security council never set out with such goals and we're hearing that the u.n. security council is looking into it will be reviewing trying to come up another resolution as to when to officially and that no fly and so the mood here is quite celebrate story lots of people honking their horns hazard lights on it's the. very different from what we saw when mubarak was ousted in terms of singing songs down the street a lot of people walking around plainclothes people with semiautomatic an automatic weapon sitting into the air so the situation is very tense very few people here are thinking about a question that global analysts are asking which of course is what's next for libya a lot of fears that the country could break out into some kind of tribal war that
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there's going to be a real push and a power struggle here for people to get into power it's no secret that the country enjoys vast vast oil wealth and this is something that's all going to begin to unfold in the next couple of days but right now the people of tripoli and most of the country are not thinking about that they're thinking and celebrating the fact that gadhafi is finally gone. and one of colonel gadhafi his sons would seem was also captured alive in sirte only to be declared dead shortly after libya's interim government claims he also died of his wounds but the video you're seeing here clearly shows seem khadafi casually smoking a cigarette leaning against a wall and shortly afterwards he's seen sprawled on the floor lifeless war correspondent eric margolis says he thinks it's unlikely the world will see an investigation into the deaths of he and his son. i think they exert a fair trial i can't think how they would have gotten one in libya but should have it's a terrible way and a regime that's very common in the middle east but it's wrong and little
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one is immediately reminded of the old tyrant same from the caribbean dead men tell no tales because. he and his family had a lot of tales to tell of foreign involvement and the fact that though he was always portrayed as a great devil he also played a lot of footsie and hanky panky with the western powers based on my understanding of the time i spend in libya and even with. the tribal nature of libya the fact that one can really unified country in one nine hundred fifty one and in the region to speratus and that we are certainly going to be grounds for future tensions starting right now because the fighting over where to bury him and and who's really in charge. of the all is that these different groups of the we were held together but something that was a trick of khadafi now that's gone the way they can really direct their anger at
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each other and i think after it's things chaos ensues and political instability there's a lot of people looking back on libya. and wishing you were back irrational consultant and author adrian thinks western powers should also be held accountable for the death of khadafi because their desire for regime change. this is a message for the whole world i don't think this is just about libya we are seeing how i think hillary clinton the secretary of state of the united states expressed it very clearly on c.b.s. news when she said we came we saw three he died and then started laughing this is a message sent to the world of how this new world order model actually works well when they decide to take only regina they do so with the utmost violence and it's a whole model based on orwellian newspeak so to speak first a target a role a country by calling it a rogue state that they support local terrorist and call them freedom fighters then
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they brain death and destruction upon civilians and they call the un sanctions then they spread lies and call it the international community's opinion expressed by the western media then they invade and control the country and call it liberation and finally they steal appetising oil and call it foreign investments and reconstruction on our website you can find a latest on the mysterious deaths of khadafi and the analysis of what's next for libya on our teen dot com. stay with us here on r.t. still to come in a few minutes. let us know because the case there is nothing to do but a look at the legacy of the u.s. campaign in iraq as barack obama confirms the remaining troops are leaving this year plus. until i saw him coming out of the obedient cafeteria when i heard two gunshots and my dad pulled down he died immediately i didn't even say
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goodbye to him kosovo serbs say they're living in fear with attacks and killings part of everyday life despite the presence of international peacekeepers. but first there's been another round of protest or arrests in new york anti-corporate demonstrators complained police are taking too heavy in approach to their continuing peaceful rallies lucy kavanagh is in the heart of the protest that spired global movement. the numbers of the protests continue to increase so does it seems that heavy handed tactics by the new york city police department we witnessed several arrests about thirty two activists were arrested for demonstrating peacefully outside a police precinct to bring attention to the so-called stop and frisk policy that is widely used here in new york where many innocent civilians can be stopped on the street with very little actual suspicious was searched and eventually taken to jail if something is found on their physical body.
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with some finite level high profile activists taken away in handcuffs at colonel west for all day except on the others several members of the ministry and several religious leaders were also taken away again just for performing what they say are simply at the civil disobedience nonviolent disobedience standing peacefully silently in front of the police precincts now we saw the police actually target and i reporter a journalist who had been trying to film the events just like we were the police on . officers went after him physically at which point several activists and below tempt them with their bodies to try to protect him and keep him from getting arrested those two activists who were then handcuffed rather violently and taken in the back of the police truck and taken away now what this signifies is that the numbers of these protests continue to grow perhaps putting some sort of fear into the system here where officials don't feel like they can control movement that
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seems to have spread wide across the world not just here in the united states. israel is another country that has recently witnessed weeks of protests and calls for social justice but while the tent camps are gone the change demanded by the activists is nowhere to be seen pushing israel used toward the growing worldwide occupy movement as are his policy or reports. anger outreach and protests on the streets of new york a throwback to the same scenes different streets around ten thousand kilometers away. in the united states exaggerated in the same way as the the. they went too far in taking for granted the citizens occupy wall street it wasn't that long ago israelis were calling to occupy what's. i mean in a bid to join the protests from the beginning she was inspired by what happened in cairo and caught her taint kaurna car but here people are thinking were praying
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every evening and people are priming it. as you know watches even some food in far away new york she misses the six weeks she lived here and wishes she could be part of the wall street rallies i first found out where everything is right. to base and seventy how the protests in new york have strong parallels with those in israel and how they came about and why the similarity between the protest was just uncanny . the way they started on facebook the way they chose the location very close to where. the center of power is where the center of greed is for in this case the wall street but many are wondering what exactly that struggle in israel achieved recommendations made by government committee still need to be implemented and that could take you down that's not like any other street in tel aviv but less than a month ago this month the local boy i'll be hosting
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a revolution i think it's called the petain the team made with michael and the first with him on a still waiting to be made. like many american is rabies many is watching the u.s. readies closely and says they're an inspiration to many in israel he's proud people are taking a stand against corruption and greed to protest the struggle and the anger is in the people still and the struggle is still going to go on a view that more and more people around the globe seem to share policy r.t. tel aviv. and later this hour the voice of protest. look at i cannot reform the whole of both parties i think we want to party parties resident laurie harford his business lower manhattan to find out just what the central message is uniting the occupy wall street protesters. but first the widow a former russian agent alexander litvinenko has admitted her husband was working
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for a british intelligence service and new details were revealed at a full inquest launched five years after living enco died of radio radiation poisoning in london as are his i ever been reports that might shed some uncomfortable new light on britain's secret services. according to britain this is a man on the run and three lugovoy hasn't left russia since two thousand and six because of an international arrest warrant he's accused of murdering alexander litvinenko in london almost five years ago both former k.g.b. agents butt. lugovoy says he's got nothing to hide so as a critic of the british nobody really expected me at the pre inquest hearing even though british officials claim that i'm hiding from justice and his lawyer is annoying found out about it by sheer chance had we not found out about it i think the british press would have accused us once again of hiding from justice read this go and look at boys lawyers last week echoed calls from live in yonkers widow for
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a full inquest which is now finally been ordered but that's prompted yet another twist in a case already steeped in intrigue in order and there were my lawyers and i put ourselves food as an interested party so live in yonkers we don't often was forced to admit her husband was a paid agent of m i five and m i six equal but he worked for britain's intelligence and not just as a consultant she had no other choice she realized if i get involved in the inquest this will be revealed anyway because i know a few facts that will force a british court to ask m i five an m i six a few questions. until now marina late been yankers always denied any such link she says he was out of loyalty to her husband she refused to speak to us they said mission leaves m i five facing awkward questions in an inquest they were the only party trying to limit and they did take it for granted that they can just brush embarrassment from the carpet and as i said if it had been consulting for
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them or working with them and he died in highly. the tourist circumstances on their patch then you have of course they would be questioned about not offering protection to people and also not offering protection to the london public you know if the trail of plenty into ten left across the city living in could died a slow and painful death. caused by the lethal radioactive substance polonium two ten the unsolved case has been the thorn in the side of british russian relations with moscow refusing to extradite abundance chiefs us. it is some claim britain's pursuit has blurred the line between fact and fiction there's a whole host of unofficial how they gave. how we go from a dance which however horrible to an accusation that mr lugovoy was responsible is ludicrous i mean it's all luke's very fishy. i'm biased observer but the
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diet that we have being fed in britain through the media. short circuits a lot of that this is where it all began the millennium hotel in central london and it's what happened in here remains the biggest question mark levin and commit lugovoy for breakfast here but they he fell ill and that's when he's alleged to have been poisoned forensics did find it contaminated with a link from to little boy is still unproven it's hoped the coroner's inquest will determine once and for rule what's exactly went on behind these walls something c.c.t.v. me the police say they have new evidence they won't disclose it until they conclude their own investigation as for lugovoy he says he'll answer any questions they've got not in person of course but via video link on two minutes see them the. us president barack obama has announced an end to american military involvement in iraq ordering all u.s. troops to leave by the end of the year around thirty nine thousand americans will
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leave the country after more than eighteen years almost forty five hundred u.s. soldiers have died during that time in the war has cost us taxpayers more than seven hundred billion dollars in military spending alone granger our blogger an iraqi american political activist thinks the withdrawal from iraq is a step forward for both sides but it doesn't guarantee via end of u.s. influence. this is a very important milestone i think iraqis in general have been waiting for this day in the last eight years we want to hear this u.s. military occupation is all of what it's all for all and it is a major step in but i bet action unfortunately it does not necessarily mean the end of the u.s. involvement and intervention in iraq because the u.s. is planning to keep sixteen thousand person and under the state department over all the iraqi political leaders are not against keeping some u.s. trainers to train the new iraqi army on using the newly purchased u.s.
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weapons but they are against granting them immunity because there have been a long list of crimes that were committed killing iraqi civilians with no accountability for the u.s. intervention and occupation of iraq has been a disaster there is no victory became there is nothing to look back at it has been a disaster that should not have happened it's a disaster of death and destruction and the u.s. has been a part of iraq's problem in the last decade or two decades since the intervention started very happy that the u.s. is ending its intervention because i think this will help iraqis move forward and put the country in that i. former commander of u.s. troops in iraq and afghanistan and the now cia chief has directed the intelligence analysts to give additional weight to the opinions of troops in the field but david petraeus is a request has been met with a flurry of criticism our military contributor if any takes
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a look. how come they have the media saying the general betray us in his new capacity as the langley director has come under their friendly fire from all sides possible i'm talking about his latest initiative to reverse this standard operating procedure regarding the sharing all of the preliminary intel and now a series between the cia and the u.s. army officers in the field he's not even in charge of the defense intelligence agency which at least has the full lead to toot to conduct or to solicit its military officers and rank and file men opinion regarding the situation in afghanistan and beyond however the small scale as much more significance than meets the eye it reflects their ongoing and unfolding turf battle between
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the supporters of the patrols counterinsurgency doctrine that has totally failed. and this latest initiative is nothing else but just another attempt though a very subtle one to justify and exonerate already defunct counterinsurgency doctrine fathered by trails and failed in afghanistan. but there's always plenty of stories eye catching videos and analysis a click away at our t. dot com here's what's online right now. apple's late founder steve jobs planning an all out war with google to find out why plus. a story blastoff a russian soyuz rocket launches from a french space base in the tropics carrying the e's first sat nav system aiming to break the dominance of the u.s. g.p.s. . but first at least
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a thousand serbs and nato soldiers in riot gear remain in a faceoff on the border with kosovo serbs have been ordered again to remove barricades and roadblocks they've been building at the rue de are crossing our t.'s murray if an ocean has more from the spot. as months of tension between serbs and ethnic albanian of course was continue roads in northern course they remain closed for some serbs are fortifying their barricades and see themselves again as victims of history these cartoon reads we defeated your grandad we defeated your fathers we'll win again local serbs compare the nature led peacekeeping force in kosovo ok for the fascist occupiers of the past they'll then why do they think that they can come and take our land serbia's our home we don't want to live in albania one of the law abiding look how their own and. they have a lot in that black and faith in god some two hundred meters away they took
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a four soldiers keep watching i would prefer a peaceful solution by talks by an agreement which i did all is in the last week but if that is not to be reached i have to be on my own i have to do fall back on my own needs. some of them are. going to be no surprise the generals only means a military ones the status quo in northern kosovo remains the standoff between k. four soldiers and local serbs avila's is no closer to resolution but people from both sides of the barricades glad to avoid any further violence but away from media glare hostility is common place. this twenty three year old syrian man was with his father when he was shot just three weeks ago visiting an old ben village in courses south where serbs a minority live in time and place i was waiting for him in
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a car and i saw him coming out of the albini and cafeteria when i heard two gunshots and my dad fall down i rushed to him but i was worried he died immediately i didn't even say goodbye to him. nobody would shows us his wounds he was shocked when his. these killers try to eliminate the only witness. i will never return to that place built i'm worrying about my family and myself. in a separate incident just last week and served was killed in a confrontation with the local these two men together with their friend drug they follow the family went to see what used to be sort of land now owned by ethnic albanians since serbs fled after nature's nine hundred ninety nine bombing of yugoslavia they were stopped by the new occupier we talked for five minutes then he said he needed to come back to his car to take in some foam became i can stand with a kalashnikov do you want your mom back he shouted and started farming us on drug
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was killed at the scene the man who just lost the france they there is only one reason he was killed but just because we are serbs periods i never knew years after the end of major conflict here and despite the presence of international peacekeepers violence seems to be still part of everyday life some in this troubled breakaway province and there is little sign that's like change or if nationality course of the. turnout of some other stories making headlines across the globe euro zone finance ministers have agreed to a new a ray of bella loans for troubled members debt stricken greece are expected to get an asian billion dollar boost by the end of november once the international monetary fund signs off on the deal the austerity measures and cuts introduced by athens to secure the loan has led to ongoing and violent protests. the un security council unanimously adopted a resolution calling for a yemen's president saleh to immediately step down the first resolution since
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massive protests started eight months ago dictates the leader must transfer power to his deputy and escalating violence sally is accused by many yemenis of pushing the country into so who war and clinging to power despite now. pressure to leave office. with the occupy wall street movement now in its one passed its one month anniversary many are wondering what exactly has united so many people in protest parties resident laurie harshness went to the center of the action to ask people what brought them there. a month into the occupy wall street movement is there a unified method this week let's talk about that. there isn't a centralized message a lot of people say that's the problem and i think that's actually a strength that we currently have. as a movement where we're just over a month old. october seventeenth was our one month anniversary and and i think it's
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it's early to to be issuing any statements or anything along those lines any any sort of movement major movement or revolution or anything like that throughout history has issued a statement within the first month it feels a little absurd to me to expect there to be one core message when this is a movement that's wanting to be inclusive that wants everyone to have a voice and everyone has their own life they have their own struggles is it i mean today's world is the sound bite no one has attention and eighty world and they need a sound bite are there off of that the current dominant paradigm and where looking to give examples of what alternative paradigms could exist i tried to come every day for a couple of hours so a lot of people are saying that the message isn't unified and that's an issue that the movement is having its problem communicating but i don't see it as an issue. because do you feel like it's a unified i think it is ultimately this is
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a big battle of ideas there's fifteen different worldviews per square foot and. people are talking and people are listening it's like the best university in the world but there's no unified message a lot of people don't seem to really understand why they're here they can articulate it so you know if this sort of makes them think about why they're here well there in the alternative do you think that that's a problem with the movement is that there isn't a unified message not necessarily. i think there's a profiling theme to it everybody is disenfranchised with something you're saying education and health care some guy over there just said shipping jobs out of the country that to their stuff a part of it i mean there's not one thing i said it's not just one thing and there's a bunch of different reasons that i'm part of that too i mean i definitely agree with that the fact that there's shipping jobs in the country we don't need anymore so so how would you sum it up in one clear spent tens what the messages here. political and economic reform the whole of both parties i think we want to party so
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it seems like everyone here feels like there is a unified message and that is there isn't a unified math there which they feel like is the very strike of the movements. if you moments this weeks moscow out takes to the skies but first holiday you with the headlines stay with us.
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we'll. bring you the latest in science and technology from around russia. we've gone to the future covered. in two thousand and ten especially economic zone for industrial production was established in russia's somalia region with a total area of six hundred sixty ect as. its investors are granted exclusive tax and customs benefits which includes a five year exemption from property land and transport taxes as well as an income tax reduction to fifteen point five percent. the special economic zone operates as a free customs zone which enables manufacturers to market their products in russia free of employer duties the same our region sees it is currently witnessing
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a sewage infrastructure construction the somalia region special economic zone promises exceptional of the tutsis developing fuel business in russia will come to the small regions for more information log on to invest in some are of the e.u. . eight thirty am in moscow he is here r.t. headlines the un wants an answer to how libya's ousted dictator moammar gadhafi and his son died and images released following their capture suggest they were taken alive and later killed violently in captivity. out of the route of anti-corporate protests in new york sees dozens of activists arrested despite this the occupy wall street movement still going strong inspiring cappie cow demonstrations for social and economic change all over the world.

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