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leaders look ahead with the dawn of a new era but the american frankenstein's of colonel gadhafi is brutal to have cast a blood stained shadow over the nation's future. global pressure grows to find out whether gadhafi was killed in crossfire or executed jointly and used in the way in tripoli the words. the corporate movement in the us build support across the world as new york sees yet more reza just died peaceful demonstrations. also as you finance chiefs immediately get in brussels for their latest round of crisis talks euro skeptics in the u.k. are pushing for a nationwide referendum on leaving the union. and a new twist in the case of former russian agent alexander litvinenko has doubts as he's agreed to admit he had ties with britain's intelligence services.
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and the variable broken from all of us here in moscow this is all she was our thanks for joining us libya's interim government says it's looking to hold elections within the next eighteen months as the war torn country prepares to celebrate the day of liberation following the death of colonel gadhafi but the unclear at circumstances of the former leaders does have sparked international calls for an investigation which every new piece of video with every new piece of video casting a shadow on the official version that he died in crossfire he's a nice and how has the latest from cleveland 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 in 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 of the it appears that he's alive he actually goes in touches take
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quite some blood away and then there's a fight and it seems that knew it was clearly dead in the later which is the same thing 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 neda's mission here in libya god that something needs to be done about new best occasion 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. it's the footage shown on t.v. proves that he was captured a lawyer and wounded and after that he was killed and later there were reports that a convoy carrying macondo was attacked by nato planes and after that the rebels captured members of our convoy has been repeated numerous times that night or
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planes are 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 the ground and could be illegitimate target. actions pose a number of questions as well. as 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 how it was a person for that mission and as soon as possible they don't want to know is october thirty first but it has to be said officially nato mission. he's 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 very 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
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still very tense just a couple of days ago there was a shootout between m.t.c. troops and the top few loyalists of those mostly celebrations have been taking place 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 look i'm asking what's next for libya and they can answer that question my god so world analysts are certainly looking into what will opt in there 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 these powers showing the world community has begun to think what will we see happening here in the upcoming months and years anderson the international community trying to get to the. desk and leaks riggio could very well provide the onset everyone's looking for. it's all of them know we grabbed my head in the face some fighters wanted to take him away and that's when i shot off twice in the head and in the chest so mislead finest said he didn't like the idea of
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taking the kind of a lie and he also threw don't hit what he calls cut out his united shirt and a whole range of weights they name of cut out his second wife's ophelia and the date of them marriage had been arranged but dr benjamin barber senior fan a dentist and us think title doesn't expect anyone to be held accountable for the killing. gadhafi was clearly executed in fact he was executed twice once by the nato air strike intercepted caravan and tried to kill him and then once he was caught by the ground forces again executed sufficiently more efficiently expressions from their expect to hold accountable one individual soldier who in the frenzy of battle did it the militia from misrata which that individual was a part of the nato forces. bombed the caravan and killed most of the people apparently forty or fifty who kill bill just to get it off my own guess is that will be
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a lot of talk here and in the end nothing will happen because everybody inside libya and also outside will will be basically glad that he's dead and not a wife. this is on c.n.n. still ahead for you this hour double trouble written things as it questions as it emerges that poisoned forward k.g.b. agent alexander litvinenko also had ties with the country's intelligence services. to quit or not to create calls for a vote on british membership all the e.u. euro skeptics called for a nationwide referendum on leaving the union. the occupy wall street movement grows stronger despite a series of arrests and scuffles with police which continue in new york absolutes accuse the police of heavy handed tactics against people peacefully expressing their opinion on she's innocent colorful it has all the details. well the occupy wall street protests continue to spread across the united states here in new york
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city not only had occupy wall street protesters and camps themselves in zuccotti park but here in union square they are now marching against police brutality that is the new focus of the protests in the face of increasing arrests increasingly tally they say by not only the new york city police department but also police departments across the world now over the weekend approximately nineteen protesters were arrested in downtown orlando in florida one of them was an arms at u.s. army a soldier and a man in a wheelchair their crime not moving when the police officers told them to move even though they say they were simply trying to stand up for the first amendment freedom of speech rights to call alec attention to the corruption built into wall street and in washington now one of the biggest issues of the occupy wall street protests today is the heavy hand of police tactics by the officers one protesters are simply they say making their voices heard trying to get politicians to listen to them in
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a country that they say no longer represents their democratic needs or democratic interest do seem to be growing we've seen increasing numbers of protesters out in the streets from seattle to chicago to los angeles some of the people i've spoken to today in fact say they're they're starting a small scale protest in upstate new york it seems like this movement is popping up all across the country faster than authorities know how to handle it one of the interesting facts that many of the protesters here have cited both to me and other reporters working for r.t. is the fact that the united states while it only represents about five percent of the total world's population has the highest one of the highest incarceration rates across the globe in fact a quarter of all world inmates are housed in prisons here in the united states this is one of the biggest issues that concerning protesters here many of whom like to point out the fact that you people on wall street have been arrested or punished for corporate crimes while innocent civilians seem to be jailed for simply speaking
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simply stepping off a curb for example or marching in demonstrations that they say are constitutionally protected here in the legal system of the united states. there is news to catherine of reporting from new york and our correspondents in america because the ongoing and corporate demonstrations there for you and you can head to our chief twitter stream to get all the latest on dates and in one of her tweets there's a catherine and says that the police have surrounded union square in new york and it things now that there are more officers than protestors. israelis inspired by american act and it said spend one weeks protesting and calling for social justice on the streets of tel aviv but now that the riots have ended people are left wondering when the reforms promised to them by the government will emerge after its fall asleep reports. anger outrage and protests on the streets of new york a throwback to the same scenes different streets around ten thousand kilometers away the politicians in the. exaggerated in the same way as the.
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when they went too far in taking for granted the citizens occupy wall street it wasn't that long ago israelis were calling to occupy struggling hard you know libya to join the protests from the beginning she was inspired by what happened in cairo and caught retained chaffee a corner. here. worth living and were playing music every evening and people are coming in. as you know watches even some fold in faraway new york she misses the six weeks she lived here and wishes she could be part of the wall street rallies the birthright of words i really knew a great. many whole computer soon you will have 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 varies with the way
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they chose the location very close to where. the center of power is or the center of readers 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 critical both look like any other street in tel aviv but before the focal point of social change revolutionizing its role but the pain of being replaced with bikers and the social demands are still waiting to be like media american is rabies andy kaufman is watching the u.s. readies closely and says they're an inspiration to me and israel is proud people are taking a stand against corruption and greed to protest the struggle of the anger is in the people still there and the struggle for going to go on a view that more and more people around the globe seem to share policy r.t. to leverage. and to have for you this hour the passion behind the protest.
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little godmamma before the whole both parties are that we want to do boring. parties new york residence in your heart and it's timed out what unites the thousands of people taking part in the occupy wall street movement. finance ministers from all twenty seven european union states a nation in brussels for more talks on the spiraling economic crisis which threatens to turn global europe remains split over a solution for greece's debt disaster and bailout with ministers saying banks should raise more than one hundred billion euros a new capital and write off some of the country's debt meanwhile british and euro skeptics are pushing for the right to vote on a referendum for the country to leave the european union they also pleasure and pain believes the e.u. undermines the u.k. sovereignty was the cost for the country so it's a high london conference by the group demands for a nationwide referendum with a shoot to be discussed in westminster on monday
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a spokesperson for the people's pleasure economist ruth sleeze says a year off the shores of the leaders of the classics the pleasures of the people in making their decisions to us the history. peaking in. the truth is that we joined the e.u. all the e.c. is it was way back in one nine hundred seventy three when it was a very different animal and since then if you know all these treaties those were the single european act the maastricht treaty the amsterdam treaty nice treaty the lisbon treaty and they've gone it's gone from being basically a trading area with aspirations to something very close to a political union when we do surveys as to whether people who are actually people out there you know that was behind me and in front of me or in the whole today whether they want a referendum on e.u. membership they say yes or no i'm afraid to say it's a lot of the politicians here who also know about actually letting the people have their say i mean the truth is that i think creasing lee and western democracies including the old european democracies people want one thing and the the
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politicians say mother that is very interesting that even when there are all referenda in the e.u. there was one on the constitution four in france and there's one in our constitution in ireland and one in the netherlands and they voted no we don't want this but what happened the politicians buttons on regardless so as far as i'm concerned you know it's the people who should be marching up the safe and we must get these message across so the politicians that it's time they listen to the people because an inquest into the death of former russian agent alexander knitting ground and by the u.k. is a way to grades he was working for british intelligence they long investigation was launched five years ago when it will incur died of radiation poisoning in london he's either ballot reports now on how research discoveries pose some uncomfortable questions for british intelligence. according to britain this is a man on the run and the day lugovoy he hasn't left russia since two thousand and six because of an international arrest warrant he's accused of murdering alexander
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litvinenko in london almost five years ago both former k.g.b. agents lugovoy says he's got nothing to hide so as a coach a group of brigades from nobody really expected me at the free inquest hearing even though the british officials claim i'm hiding from justice my lawyer is annoyed 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. little boys lawyers last week echoed calls from libya for a full inquest which is now finally being ordered but that's prompted yet another twist in a case already steeped in intrigue. my lawyers and i put ourselves as an interested party so as we did i was forced to admit her husband was a paid agent of mit ivan m i six of the he worked for britain's intelligence and not just as a consultant people had no other choice she realized you might get involved in the
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inquest this will be revealed anyway because i know a few facts that will force a british court ask in my five an m i six a few questions. until now marina litvinenko was always denied any such link 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 in an inquest they were the only party trying to limit and they did take it for granted that pickle just crash embarrassment on carpet and as i said if it had been consulting for them all working with them and he died in highly. the tourists that if that is on their patch then you have of course they would be are questioned about not offering protection to people and also not offering protection to the london public if it's . trailing into ten across the city living in kid died a slow and painful death caused by the lethal radioactive substance polonium two
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hundred ten the unsolved case has been the thorn in the side of british russian relations with moscow refusing to extradite london's 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 a debt which i were horrible to an accusation that mr lugovoy was responsible is is ludicrous i mean it's all looks very fishy join unbiased observer but the diet that we're 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 live in yankee met lugovoy for breakfast here the day he fell ill and that's when he's alleged to have been poisoned forensics to find contaminated teapot the link from back to move forward is still on proven it's hoped the coroner's inquest will determine once and
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for all the sigs actually went on behind these walls something c.c.t.v. nice the police say they have new evidence but 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. russia has barred several u.s. officials from visiting the country in escalating the hour over the death of laura sergei magnitsky in a moscow prison almost two years ago this comes in response to a similar blacklist of russians banned by washington from entering the u.s. but needs kid died after a year on a remand facing tax evasion charges his colleagues claimed it was held after allegedly a huge field against a number of russian officials to prison doctors face charges in moscow of negligence over his death by big u.s. is now refusing to grant these it's just several russians are connected to the case moscow says the americans it has blacklisted this saturday are suspected of crimes
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against russian citizens in the grass including kidnapping and torture russia has also worked its way extends the list which has not been publicly released unless washington drops its sanctions. president barack obama 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 an area that has cost us taxpayers over eight hundred billion dollars almost four thousand five hundred u.s. soldiers have died during their service in the iraq war so global and iraq american political activists arrayed around our. joy is a step forward for both countries but it doesn't mean america's influence in the region will end. very important i think iraq you have been waiting for this is the eight years you want to hear this little piece and it's all you saw is a major but i don't actually portrait the it does not necessarily mean the end of
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the u.s. involvement and prevention in iraq because the u.s. is planning to keep sixty thousand. although all. keeping some u.s. through no. three in the new iraq you're using. newly purchased 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 north don't really think the us intervention and occupation of iraq has been disastrous there has not been because 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 us has been a part of iraq's problem and the last decade or two decades since the intervention started i'm very happy that the u.s.
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is ending its intervention because i think this will help iraqis move forward and put the country in that i talk. so more international headlines for you this hour in northern kosovo nato peacekeepers have tried to remove the arcades put up by ethnic serbs have been stopped by hundreds of people. in front of sixteen road blocks to prevent foreign troops pushing through the barricades western peacekeepers and local surgeon leaders afterwards failed to achieve a breakthrough during tools late on saturday barricades in the region were billed by local service back in july when the ethnic albanian government attempted to take control of the disputed crossing area. saudi arabia into the house reporters the death of the kingdom's heir to the throne prince sultan bin abdul aziz al sewed it was eighty five and had been diagnosed with colon cancer in two thousand and four these sultan underwent surgery in new york two years ago and has been reputed rating abroad since then but it's not been revealed where he died
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brings into focus the health of saudi arabia's aging lawyer the lead specially king abdullah who is now eighty seven. turkish military how you put it at least forty nine deaths among kurdish rebels and ground offensives in the southeast of the country of regimes against these separatists were launched on wednesday and reported me and all the ten thousand troops they began as a response to the death of twenty four soldiers killed by fighters of the kurdistan workers party or p.k. k. takers conflict with the kurdish rebels has claimed thousands of lives since they started their voyage which one of me in nineteen eighty-four. the un security council has unanimously adopted a resolution calling for yemeni president ali abdullah saleh to immediately step down the documents as the leader must transfer power to his deputy and escalating violence and also strongly condemns execs. of bright excessive use of force against
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anti-government protesters anyway before writing between opposition and unity government forces. left at least twenty people dead. to nea's to vote for a new government on sunday in the country's first democratic elections in more than forty years following january's revolution over ten thousand candidates and eighty parties are running islam it sounds their secular opponents will compete for two hundred seventeen seats in a parliament which was draft a new constitution and an interim government if all comes ten months after the former president is in our d.n.a. holly was ousted in the first popular uprising of the arab spring revolt it's. as support for the occupy wall street movement is growing across the world to include iran and north korea many are wondering what exactly has united so many people and norrie how often it's their own residential reporter in new york went to the center of the action to ask people what brought done there.
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a month into the occupy wall street movement is there a unified method this week let's talk about that but 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 a 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 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 a sound bite no one has the potential of a.d.d. world and they need
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a sound bite or they're awful that the current dominant paradigm and we're looking to give examples of what alternative paradigms could exist i tried to come in 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 to its problem communicating but i don't see it is an issue . because if you like it if 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 so 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 prevailing theme to it everybody's disenfranchised with something you say
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education and health care some guy over there just said shipping jobs out of the country that through their stuff we're 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 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 but the message is here. 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 math there which they feel like is the very strike of the movement's. approaches that are shaking up the u.s. the long tall website that's telkom so you can find out if i think former u.s. marine who stood up to such a policeman to become an international spokes person for the occupy wall street movement that earned a lot smaller to call feet. under
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enormous russian so he struck it sets off from a french space base in the tropics carol he's for such like a geisha system i mean to become a rival because g.p.s. . if. you. because the report is coming up in just a few minutes right after a recap our top stories here on alt. it's . coming. from the.
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