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liberation of the country following the death of colonel gadhafi on thursday nato says it will wind down its military intervention in libya by the end of the month after an alliance airstrike stopped a convoy carrying the colonel in the city of sirte allowing him to be captured alive but the unclear circumstances of how gadhafi ended up dead shortly after have sparked international calls for an investigation with some reports suggesting he was executed in cold blood ati's and he said now he has the latest from the libyan capital. the n.t.s.b. is saying that gadhafi was killed by 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 his 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 that he did in fears that he's alive he actually goes and touches head right some blood away and then there's a time and it seems that it was clear we did in those later pictures the same thing
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with one of his sons that was captured in syria first pictures of him 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 nato mission here in libya by 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 gadhafi was killed in these pictures that we saw were perhaps not the best possible way to go to go through with it 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 macondo 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 now you have a u.n.
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mandate to ensure a no fly zone over libya and the convoy wasn't producing any threat to civilians on the ground and could be a legitimate target. actions pose a number of questions as well. speaking of that no fly zone which is of course how this mission began back in march the u.n. looking into when it will officially and now russia pushing for that mission to end the soonest possible new date when you know october thirty first but it has to be said of fish only nato mission. it is very much alive here in libya gadhafi is body is in a walk in refrigerator now in misrata and already way beyond the twenty four hour mark how he had been buried by muslim tradition the official liberation ceremony will take place in benghazi were very able to 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 top level because the security situation here is still very tense just a couple of days ago there was a shootout between n.t.s.c. troops and fuel oil with the low mostly celebrations have been taking place
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obviously officials the interim officials are worried that there could be some kind of violence here in the capital very few people obviously were on the streets last night asking what's next for libya and they 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 power showing the world community has begun to think what will we see how being here in the upcoming months and years. and he said now reporting from tripoli there and she's keeping us updated on the developments in libya online as well as had to auntie's twitter stream to get the latest from her. and as the international community tries to get to the bottom of going after his death a leaked video could very well provide the answer everyone is looking for because of the note we grabbed it i hit him in the face some fighters wanted to take him away and that's when i shot up twice in the header and in the chest so this levin
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says he didn't like the idea of taking the colonel alive you also flaunted what he calls get that piece of luggage shirt and a gold ring he trying to take you from the dead pretentious middle east expert shouldn't sygate it told me earlier that the colonel's death will open up an era of tribal and ethnic conflict across libya. the international community is calling for an investigation but they've been complicit in his death it casts a shadow on many things it casts a shadow on the m.t.c. to cast a shadow on the future of the country and our feet held his the tribes and the ethnicities together what we're going to see over the next few months and years is massive trial and specifically ethnic divisions and very strongly you can't explain the libyans of african descent who have african features and libyans are they are very proud to stand up and even during this war that started in every we started to see those kinds of violence divisions between ethnicities the people of plea up are
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in the middle of a war right now it's a civil war it's an international war and people are dying civilians are dying they're being imprisoned they're not getting proper medical treatment and and they're in the last people that anyone seems to care about so you know if the future is good we can't see it from here. still ahead in the program the double trouble british intelligence faces. that former k.g.b. agent alexander litvinenko was also working for my six. and up for debate should the u.k. leave the euro skeptics in britain call for a nationwide referendum on the future of its membership. story still to come but first new york has seen yet another series of corporate protests which were followed by another round of arrests the police are being heavy handed towards those who were peacefully expressing their opinion. has this report. as the
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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 of 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. we saw high level high profile activists taken away in handcuffs purnell 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 acts of civil disobedience nonviolent disobedience standing peacefully silently in front of the police precincts now we saw the police actually target a reporter
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a journalist who had been trying to film the events just like we were the police officers and went after him physically at which point several activists and full of tips and what their bodies to try to protect him and keep him from getting arrested those two activists were then rather violently and taken aback at 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. but was lucy coffin of reporting from new york israelis inspired by american activists who spent weeks protesting and calling for social justice in the streets of tel aviv another run is offended people are left wondering when the reforms promised to them by the government will emerge live reports. anger outreach and
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protests. on the streets of new york a throwback to the same scenes different streets around ten thousand kilometers away the politicians in the united states exaggerated in the same way as the politicians. 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 told boulevard. joined the protests from the beginning she was inspired by what happened in cairo and caught her taint tapio corner car but here people are saving who are praying every evening and people are priming and talking to our as you know watches events unfold in faraway new york she misses the six weeks she lived here and wishes she could be part of the wall street rallies are the birth hour that we were dire i remember right one prayer of jabez and seventy how the protests in new york have strong parallels with those in israel in how they
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came about and why the similarities between the protesters just uncanny. the way they started on facebook the way they chose a location very close to where. the center of power is where the center of greed is for in this case 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 a while this looks like any other street in tel aviv but it looks like the focal point of social change in the revolutionizing israel of the taint of being replaced with bikers and the social demands are still waiting to be made like many american is rabies coffman is watching the u.s. rallies closely and says they're an inspiration to many in israel he's proud people are taking a stand against corruption and greed the protest the struggle and the anger is in the people still and the struggle is still going to go on
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a view that more and more people around the globe seem to share policy r.t. tel aviv. still ahead for you this hour here in r.t. the passion behind the protests. look at our comic reform because both parties i think we want a new party ortiz new york resident laura hoffman is find out what uniting message is driving the occupy wall street movement. but first you finance ministers from all twenty seven european union states are meeting in brussels for economic crisis talks remains divided over a solution for the debt crisis and the greek bailout with ministers saying banks should raise more than one hundred billion euros in new capital and cut the greek debt meanwhile british euro skeptics are pushing for the right to vote on a referendum on whether the country should leave the e.u. people's pledge campaign believes the e.u. undermines britain sovereignty and is costing the country too much demand for a nationwide referendum will be discussed in parliament on monday the group held a conference on the issue in london over the weekend conservative m.p.
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in support of the people's pledge douglas cause wells says there's no economic benefit to keeping the u.k. in the e.u. . it's costing us a great deal of money where spending billions of pounds bailing out a currency we didn't even choose to join but it's not just about economics it's about democracy for too long in this country we've left it to the political elite to decide these questions if you believe in democracy surely you should trust the people the people need to have a say when we join the european union in the early one nine hundred seventy s. we thought we were joining a prosperous trading bloc europe at that time constituted about thirty six percent of global g.d.p. it turns out by twenty twenty year poor account for about fifteen percent of global g.d.p. so you know far from joining a prosperous trading block which shackled ourselves to an economic corpse you know the economic rationale for being in the european union i think has largely gone we want to be global players we want to have free trade relationships with the world not just with belgium and
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a few indebted states across the channel. as an inquest into the death of former russian agent alexander litvinenko was granted by the u.k. his widow admits he was working for britain's m i six the long stretching investigation was launched five years ago when litvinenko died of radiation poisoning in london bodies are burnt reports and her recent discoveries could pose some uncomfortable questions for british intelligence. according to britain this is a man on the run and very 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 but lugovoy says he's got nothing to hide so. nobody really expected me at the free inquest hearing even though british officials claim i'm hiding from justice my lawyers annoy 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
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hiding from justice. league of always lawyers last week echoed calls from a live in yonkers widow for a full inquest which is now finally being ordered but that's prompted yet another twist in a case already steeped in intrigue they were all in there my lawyers and i put ourselves food as an interested party so live in yonkers we don't i 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 the 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
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the only party trying to limit and they did take it for granted that they can just brush embarrassment country carpet and as i said if it had been consulting for them or working with them and he died in a highly. the tourist circumstances on their patch then you have if course they would be questioned about not offering protection to people and also not offering protection to the london public. as this trial playing into ten across the city living in kid 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 chief suspect but 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 a death which however horrible to an accusation that mr lugovoy was responsible
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is ludicrous i mean it's all looks very fishy joy an 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 the day he fell ill and that's when he's alleged to have been poisoned forensics did find the contaminated teapot but the link from back to lou void is still unproven it's hoped the coroner's inquest will determine once and for all what exactly went on behind these walls something c.c.t.v. missed 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 i've been it r t london. the russian foreign ministry has compiled
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a number of american officials blacklisted from visiting the country this comes in response to a similar line up of russians banned by washington from entering the us there i was sparked by the death of a businessman set to get magnitsky in a russian jail two years ago where he was being held on tax of asian charges he was blamed moscow for the death and is now refusing to grant visas to several russian officials moscow says the americans it has now blacklisted in response are suspected of crimes against russian citizens in the u.s. including kidnapping and torture that makes the list which has not been publicly released and this washington drops its sanctions against russian officials. some other world news in brief for you now in our world update at eighteen past the hour here a little more than cause of our hundreds of ethnic serbs have stopped the nato peacekeepers from removing barricades which have been blocking off the area for months they sat in front of sixteen roadblocks to prevent the troops pushing through the barricades which were built back in july when the government attempted to take control of the disputed crossing area in kosovo is home to about forty thousand serbs who used to
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recognize the authority of the main ethnic albanian kosovo. the heir to the saudi arabian throne prince sultan bin abdul aziz al so it has died he was in his eighty's and in two thousand and four was diagnosed with colon cancer the crown prince was traveling abroad for medical tests at the time of his death it brings into focus the health of saudi arabia's aging royalty especially king abdullah who is now eighty seven officials say funeral services will be held in the capital riyadh on tuesday. turkish troops reportedly killed forty nine kurdish rebels near the iraqi border as hundreds of soldiers also pursued fighters in northern iraq the clash in turkey is the current province came after the government launched a massive anti rebel operation in the area involving ten thousand troops turkey's conflict with the kurdistan workers' party or p k k is killed tens of thousands of people since it began in one thousand eight hundred. the u.n.
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security council has unanimously adopted the resolution calling for yemeni president ali abdullah saleh to immediately step down it also strongly condemns excessive use of force against anti-government protesters the first mandate since the unrest began and generally says the leader must transfer power to his deputy and escalating violence but it was criticized by human rights activists saying it opened the way to granting immunity for the president just as claims is clinging to power and pushing his country into civil. president barack obama has announced the end to american military deployment in iraq ordering all troops to leave by the end of the year about thirty nine thousand american troops will leave the country after more than eight years and here it has cost us taxpayers eight hundred billion dollars almost four hundred thousand u.s. soldiers have died during their service in the iraq wars and blogger and iraqi american political activists thinks the u.s. withdrawal is a step forward for both countries but it doesn't mean america's influence in the region will end this very important milestone i think iraqis in general have been
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waiting for this is the last eight years we want to hear this u.s. military occupation is over it's all for all and it is a major step in but i doubt 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 under the state department all for 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. weapons but they are against granting immunity because that 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 stuck there is not because. there is
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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 bottle of iraq's problem. daughter two decades since the intervention started i'm very happy that the u.s. is ending its intervention because i think this will help iraqis move forward and put the country and truck. with the occupy wall street movement surpassing its one month anniversary many are wondering what exactly has united so many people in protest very often a star in resident in new york 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 message 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
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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 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 the tension at the a.d.d. world and they need a sound bite or they're off of that the current dominant paradigm and where looking to give examples of what alternative paradigms could exist i tried to come here free for a couple of hours so a lot of people are saying that the message is it unified and that's an issue that the movement is having its problem communicating but i don't see it as an issue.
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because the feel like it's a unified i think it is ultimately this is 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 in 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 profiling theme to it everybody's dissent. franchise with something you're saying education and health care some guy over there just said shipping jobs out of the country through their stuff with part of it i mean there's not one thing like 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 they're shipping jobs of the country we don't need anymore so how would you sum it up in one clear sentence what the message is here.
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political and economic reform the whole of 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 a unified mass that they feel like is the very strike the movement's. more coverage of the protests the shaking up united states sees when people know what scientists don't call including one marine versus thirty policeman and all the sergeant becomes an unintentional spokesperson of the occupy wall street movement and then what about that on the web site. also legendary launch a russian soyuz rocket sets off from a french space base in the tropics using first satellite navigation system aiming to become a rival to america's g.p.s. .
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. if you just joined us this hour a very warm welcome this is our t. top stories now libyans look ahead to
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a country without gadhafi and nato but the shady circumstances of the colonel's death cost a bloodstain shadow over the nation's future the libyan interim government claims he died in a shootout but a leaked video shows a man boasting he executed gadhafi. you'll see dozens of new arresting peaceful anti corporate demonstrations as the occupy wall street movement for stronger support more people across the world to call for economic justice. as e.u. ministers gather in brussels for another round of crisis talks euro skeptics in the u.k. are pushing for a nationwide referendum on prisons membership in the evening. i'll be back with more news stories in less than half an hour from now up next can alternative cinema challenge hollywood well this question and many others around in the film world are asked by spotlight host al going to in his chat with the director of the two n one international contemporary film festival.

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