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whish nato prepares to wrap up what it calls a successful campaign in libya but the death of colonel gadhafi is raising questions. global pressure grows to find out whether gadhafi was killed in crossfire or executed join me and he's now in tripoli for more details. and. despite dozens of new arrests in new york the occupy wall street protests still going strong inspiring people seeking social and economic justice in europe and the middle east. and a double game in inquest into the death of former russian agent alexander litvinenko uncovers he actually worked for britain's secret services. one pm in moscow i matras are good to have you with us here on r t our top story
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there is growing international pressure for an investigation into exactly how libya's ousted dictator moammar gadhafi died and un expressed concern over a video footage taken following his capture showing khadafi taken alive before he was killed meanwhile nato says it's winding down its bombing campaign in the country artes and he said now way has the latest from tripoli. the n.t.s.b. is saying that was after he was killed by a bullet wounds also conflicting reports as to where exactly those shots were in his stomach in the right side of his head and the left side of the head it's looking very shady and then this brutal video that went viral the mainstream media showing it more than twenty four hours constantly of gadhafi whether or not he was dead or alive very unclear at first in the first couple of shots if it appears that he's alive he actually goes and touches head quite some blood away and then there's the heart and you know it seems that he was dead in the later which is the same thing with one of his sons that was captured in syria first pictures of him
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standing against a wall smoking a cigarette very clearly alive then the video cards and all of a sudden he's dead so really pressure coming from around the world both from the west and other countries that we've been very critical about neighbors mission here in libya god that something needs to be done about an investigation the u.n. is planning on launching an investigation and russia's foreign minister was very clear that russia and many of many countries and officials around the world feel like the way he was killed in these pictures that we saw were perhaps not the best possible way to. sort of use the footage shown on t.v. proves that he was captured alive and wounded but also that he was killed later there were reports that's a convoy carrying macondo was attacked by nato planes and also about the rebels captured a convoy has been repeated numerous times that nato planes are and you 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 of. actions pose a number of questions as well. as speaking of that no fly zone which of course this mission began back in march the u.n. looking into when it will officially and russia person for that mission and as soon as possible the date when you know it's october thirty first but it has to be said officially nato mission. very much alive here in libya the japanese body is in a walk in refrigerator now in destruction already way beyond the twenty four hour mark potter who had been buried by muslim tradition the official liberation ceremony will take place in benghazi we're hearing it will take place there that of course was the original rebel stronghold where their whole fight for freedom began it will take place there instead of the capital because the security situation here is still very tense just a couple of days ago there was a shootout between n.g.c. troops and you've got the loyalists alone mostly celebrations have been taking place obviously officials the interim officials there worry that there could be
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some kind of violence here in the capital very few people obviously were on the streets all night asking what's next for the b.m.a. can answer that question my god so world analysts are certainly looking into what will happen will be chaos here one of the main fears is that libya could break out into some kind of tribal war that there's going to be this hour the world community has begun to think what will we see happening here in the upcoming months and years . i mean you can follow the latest from our correspondent in libya and he said now is twitter feed bring you the very latest developments from the troubled region with libya urged to be transparent about gadhafi his death dr magazine crusader from bethlehem university says nato should also be held accountable for their mission. bay un and human rights organizations should all push not only for investigation. and certainly the lynching of many other libyan numbers will be. supported. but also the
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bombings that nato inflicted in libya that destroyed so many probably be as infrastructure and also so many libyan civilians who died in the who were killed in the nato strikes nato and especially the united states which is leading in this case is clearly interested in intervention in libya long and if they can get away with it i would say for decades that they would want to interfere in libya because that's their aim their aim is to control libya affect the change in libya in such a way to make it easier for reinstituting an american base in libya which existed until nine hundred sixty nine and to control the oil industry in libya and the privatization of libya i must that this is hypocritical on the part of a u.s. because they also had an ally himself who collaborated with the cia and with the
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west for the past nine years or eight years. but our web so you can find the latest on the mysterious death of colonel gadhafi an analysis of what's next for libya all that and plenty more at our top well stay with us here on r t still to come in a few minutes. it is not because he came here that is the thing to do. a look at the legacy of the u.s. eight year long campaign in iraq as barack obama confirms the remaining u.s. troops are going to be pulling out this year plus. i saw him coming out of the old beating camp period being up for two gunshots and my dad pulled down he got immediately i didn't even say 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 protester
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arrests in new york anti-corporate demonstrators complained police are taking too heavy an approach to their continuing peaceful rallies or he's losing confidence has more from your. the numbers of the protests continue to increase so does it seems that heavy handed tactics by the new york city police departments we witnessed several arrests about thirty two activists were arrested for demonstrating peacefully outside of least three things up 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 cars searched and eventually taken see jail if something is found on their physical body. we saw highest level high profile activists taken away in handcuffs purnell last carl did step on the there's several members of the ministry and several religious leaders were also taken away again just for performing what they say are simply the civil disobedience
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nonviolent disobedience standing peacefully silently in front of the plea. precincts. the police actually target about reporters journalists who've been trying to film the events just like we were the police officers who went after them physically at which point several activists and below to put their bodies to try to protect them and keep them from getting arrested. activists were then rather violently and taken to 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 seems to have spread wide across the world not just here in the united states and israel another country that's recently witnessed weeks of protests and calls for social justice but while the tent camps are gone the change demanded by activists is nowhere to be seen which is pushing israelis toward the growing
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worldwide occupy movement as are reports. anger outrage 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 this way is the. far in taking for granted that these. occupy wall street it wasn't that long ago israelis were calling to occupy. i mean a big join the protests from the beginning she was inspired by what happened in cairo and caught retained corner. here. every evening and people are priming and talking throughout as you know watches even some food in faraway new york she misses the six weeks she lived here and wishes she could be part of the wall street rallies i think. i remember right.
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the purchased a new york has strong parallels with those in israel and how they came about and why the similarity between the protesters just uncanny. the way they started on facebook the way they chose the location very close to where the the center of power is where the center of greed is for in this case the last but many are wondering what exactly that struggle is will achieve recommendations made by government committee still need to be implemented and that could take a long enough look not any of the streets instead i believe that's what the focal point of the social pain of the revolution i think its role became the payment made with the bike and the social demands are still waiting to be made. and i comedian he can use radio and he calls many is watching the u.s. readies closely and says they are an inspiration to many in israel he's proud
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people are taking a stand against corruption and the protests the struggle and the anger is in the people still and the struggle is still going to go on i view that more and more people around the polluting seem to share police here r.t. tel aviv. stay with us here on our team coming up later the voice of protest. little going to comic reform because both parties i think we want to party parties resident in new york laurie harkness business lower manhattan to find out what the central message is uniting the occupy wall street protesters. but first the widow of former russian agent alexander litvinenko has admitted her husband was working for british intelligence services new details were revealed in the full inquest launched five years after living enco died of radiation poisoning in london as artie's ivor better reports it might see some uncomfortable truths brought to light about britain aspire organizations. according to britain this is a man on the run and barry lugovoy hasn't left russia since two thousand and six
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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 but lugovoy says he's got nothing to hide. what he did nobody really expected me at the free inquest hearing even though british officials claim that i'm hiding from the justice of the law is annoying found out about it by sheer chance had we not found out and now do you know you're going to get the british press or would have used us once again hiding from justice roberts government little boys lawyers last week echoed calls from libya because we don't know for a full inquest which is now finally been ordered but that's prompted yet another twist in a case already steeped in intrigue and more than one million years in the us my lawyers and i put ourselves out as an interested party so live in you as we do i was forced to admit her husband was a paid agent of him ice five in n.y.c. exactly but he worked for britain's intelligence and not just as
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a consultant she had no other choice she realized you might get involved in the inquest this will be reviewed anyway because i know a few facts that will force the british call to ask in my five an m i six a few questions. until now marina lee in yonkers always denied any such link that she says he was out of loyalty to her husband she refused to speak to us this is mission leaves m i five facing awkward questions and inquest they were the only party trying to limit and they did take it for granted that they could just crash in paris without help it and i said if it had been consulting for them or working with them and he died in highly. the tourist second fact is on their patch then you have of course they would be up question about not offering protection to people and also not offering protection to the london publicly. traveling into ten across the city living in kid died
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a slow and painful death. caused by the lethal radioactive substance polonium two hundred ten the unsolved case has been the thorn in the side of british russian relations with moscow refusing to extradite abundance chief suspect as some claim britain's pursuit has blurred the line between fact and fiction there's a whole host of unofficial allegations. how we go from i guess which however horrible to an accusation that mr lugovoy was responsible is is ludicrous i mean this all looks very fishy. unbiased observer but the diet that we are 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 living in commit lugovoy for breakfast here but they fell ill and that's when he's alleged to have been poisoned forensics did find that contaminated teeth what the link from back to
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lou void is still unproven it's hoped the coroner's inquest will determine once and for all six actually went on behind these walls something c.c.t.v. nice 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 by video link i have been it r t london. eurozone finance ministers agreed to give greece the next installment of its belo money the debt stricken country will get eight billion euros come november was the irrational monetary fund signs of posterity measures introduced by athens to secure a loan have been met with violent protests and strikes starting pressure on people in greece and other countries may cost the government dearly according to financial pundits max keiser and stacy hooker. euro zone pushing for tougher policing of greece according to this reuters article from euro zone countries want to european
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commission task force to be given extra powers to oversee the sale of greek state assets the source said there was a need to take over some of the sovereign functions of the state to get the machine running there is no alternative oh hello margaret thatcher i remember during the beginning of the reagan factor era which incidentally in the us was the beginning of the bailouts for banks reg and initiated this whole bank bailout initiative at the time he said oh will never happen again but of course i became the president for how america does business going forward but margaret thatcher said this there is no alternative tina as it became known and this was a false road then it was merely a pretext to bring in financial ization to replace manufacturing the economy put millions of people out of work and if they complained star wars instead about the foreign countries getting blown apart and now they're repeating tina there is no alternative there was an alternative then and there is an alternative now it's
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called insurrection. for program coming your way in less than fifteen minutes time here r t. u.s. president barack obama has announced a plan to end the american military involvement in iraq a quarter of all u.s. troops to leave by the end of the year around thirty nine thousand americans will leave the country after more than eight years almost forty five hundred u.s. servicemen and women have died during that time in a war that's cost u.s. taxpayers more than seven hundred billion dollars in military spending a low grade gerar a blogger an iraqi american political activist thinks the withdrawal from iraq is a step forward for both sides but doesn't guarantee the need u.s. influence. very important milestone i think you. have been waiting for this is the last eight years you want to hear this u.s.
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military occupation is or what it's all for is a major step in but i actually unfortunately it does not specifically mean the end of this involvement and intervention in iraq because the u.s. is planning to keep sixteen thousand or so in and. over all the iraqi political leaders are not keeping some us. to train the new iraqi army on using. just u.s. weapons but they are against granting immunity because there have been a long list of crimes that were committed here killing iraqi civilians with no accountability for the u.s. intervention and occupation of iraq has been a disaster there is not because you claim it is looking to look records because been a disaster that should not have happened it's a disaster of death and destruction and the u.s.
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has been a part of iraq's problem in the last decade or two decades since the intervention started and i'm very happy that the u.s. is ending its intervention because i think this will help iraqis move forward and truck. remember there is always plenty of stories videos and analysis a click away at archie dot com here's what's online for you right now writing the wrong and find out why apple's late founder steve jobs was willing to spend every penny penny of his company's fourteen forty billion dollars in an all out war against google plus. a storage blaster after russian soyuz rocket launches from a french space space in the tropics carrying the e.u. first sat nav system aiming to break the. of us g.p.s. washer for takeoff at r.t. dot com. at least a thousand serbs and nato soldiers are right here remaining in
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a faceoff on the kosovo border troops tried over night to remove barricades form from vehicles or rocks mud and logs but were prevented by serbs guarding the blockade wider tussles were reported but there were no injuries this comes just days after came four soldiers resorted to tear gas and pepper spray to disperse the crowd near the troubled border ortiz marie if an ocean has more. as months of tension between serbs and nicholas bannan courseware as continue roads in northern cos they remain closed for some serbs of fortifying they have barricades and see themselves again as victims of history these cartoons reach and if it is your granddad which if it is your father's will win again local serbs compare the nature led peacekeeping force in kosovo ok for it to fascist occupiers of the past they will then why do they think they can come and take our land sergey is our home we don't want to live in albania argued out on some of the law abiding look how their
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own and. the we have nothing but flag and then gone some two hundred meters away a major key for soldiers keep watching i would with a peaceful solution but talks by the greening judge of all is in the last week but if that is not to be reached i have to be on my own i have to fall back on my own needs. no surprise the generals only means a miniature once the status quo in northern kosovo remains the standoff between k. four soldiers and local subservience is no closer to resolution it's people from both sides of the barricades are glad to avoid any further violence that's away from media hostility. this twenty three year old syrian man was with his father when he was shot just three weeks ago visit in. the south where
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serbs a minority live in entirely enclaves i was waiting for him in a car i saw him coming out of the or being in cafeteria and i heard two gunshots and my dad fall down and i watched him but i was worried he died immediately i didn't even say goodbye to him. shows us his wounds he was shocked when his father's killers tried to eliminate the only witness. i will never return to the points. i'm worrying about my family and myself. this separate incident just last week in under an hour syria was killed in a confrontation with the local these two mentioned you're there with your friend mir drug they follow the big family went to see what used to be sort of land now legal guardians since serbs fled after nature's nine hundred ninety nine bombing of yugoslavia they were stopped by the occupier we talked for five minutes and he said
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he needed to come back to his heart to take in some form who can walk and stand with a kalashnikov do you want your number started farming out your drug. the man who just lost that france they there is only one reason he was killed with you that's just because we are serbs periods eleven years after the end of major conflict here and despite the presence international peacekeepers violence seems to be still part of everyday life for some in this troubled breakaway province and there is little sign that's like change or if nationality costs were. thrown out of some other stories making headlines across the globe the heir to the saudi arabian throne prince sultan bin abdul aziz all soured has died and a five year old defense minister was traveling abroad for medical treatment at the time this brings into focus the health of the saudi arabian royal family which is aging especially king abdullah now eighty seven years old his half brother and next
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in line to the throne even though he is seventy eight. the u.s. reaches an agreement with north korea allowing it to search for the remains of american soldiers killed during the korean war searches will resume next year after a six year hiatus zero intention over a period of nuclear program the remains of more than two hundred u.s. servicemen were found between one thousand nine hundred six and two thousand and five before the end of recovery operations. thailand's prime minister says floods causing chaos across the country could take six weeks to recede at least three hundred fifty six people lost their lives so far that number rising more than one hundred thousand have been displaced from waterlogged homes because of damage to factories homes and farmland estimated in the billions of dollars. the u.n. security council has unanimously adopted a resolution calling for yemen's president saleh to immediately step down the first resolution since massive protests began eight months ago dictates the leader must
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transfer power to his deputy and escalating violence is accused by many yemenis of pushing the country into civil war and clinging to power despite mounting pressure that put. highly in this news block with the occupy wall street movement reaching its one month anniversary many wonder what exactly has united so many people in protest artie's resident laurie harford as 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 mass that this week let's talk about that. there isn't a centralized message a lot of people said that the problem and i think that's actually a strength that we currently have. as a movement were we're just over a month old. october seventeenth was our one month anniversary and and i think it's it's early to to be issuing any statements or anything along those lines any any
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sort of movement major movement or revolution or anything like that throughout history has it 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 that is i mean today's world is the sound bite no one has attention and eighty the world and they need a sound bite are there often 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 is that unified and that's an issue that the movement of having its problem communicating but i don't see it is an issue. because do you feel like if it's all unified i think it is ultimately this is a big battle of ideas there's fifteen different worldviews per square foot and. people
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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 they're 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. feelings theme to it everybody is disenfranchised with something you say education how can somebody ever they're just said shipping jobs out of the country back to their stuff a part of it i mean there's not one thing i just said it's not just one thing and there's a bunch of different reasons that i'm for that too i mean i disagree with the fact that they're shipping jobs of the country we don't need any more so so how would you sum it up in one clears that intense what the math that says here. political and economic reform those both parties i think we want to party so it seems like everyone here feels like there is a unified message and that is there isn't
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