in syria it's following the death of conall qaddafi he was gunned down in unclear circumstances while fleeing the city of sirte on thursday the incident sparked international calls for an investigation of allegations the ousted libyan leader was executed a leaked video put trey's a man boasting that he shot could afy twice during his capture the claim is supported by a post mortem which discovered two bullet holes in the colonel's body elections and out due to be held in libya within eight months followed by the formation of a new government or the drafting of a constitution however the post khadafi future looks on. making tribal divisions emerge among libyans once united in revolution and then this nato which is winding down its military intervention on its members rushed to secure lucrative oil deals with the new libyan authorities any tsunamis in tripoli. not so long ago it was handshakes and hugs now it's his head. and his family and

a lot of tales to tell about just foreign involvements and the fact that though he was always been treated as a great goal he also played a lot of fun c.n.n. keeping with the western. graphic gruesome footage of goods after he went viral as news of his death spread after months of being number one nato hit list five hundred a banner humanitarian mission oh we came we saw he died. i mean you can do directly or visit. libya's and t.c. claims he was killed in crossfire but edited livio begs to differ that show here clearly wiping one from his head then nearly dead took a look at those movies or do the footage shown on t.v. proves that he was captured alive and wounded and after that he was killed. well the pressure is growing for an investigation for find out if he's down died as clinton put it. or was executed the un human rights organization should all push

not only for investigation. and certainly the lynching of many of the libyan. supported. but also the bombings that inflicted in libya the destroyer so many of libya's infrastructure and also so many libyan civilians who died who were killed in the. alliance officials claim the mission in libya is coming to him and the no fly zone will be reviewed at the u.n. security council find many believe this is only the end of the duffy and the beginning of a new era of crisis libya is in for a period of horrendous chaos after the nato bombing that's brought parts of libya back to the stone age some say the race for the country's oil has kicked off france is already demanding thirty five percent of libya's gross national gross oil

production and i suspect that the people of libya will be furious and outraged that they are paying france for having the infrastructure having destroyed the schools the hospitals the the water supply and a country united in hatred for the down feet might not stand together now that he's gone all these these different groups that were held together but one thing that was. now that's gone away can redirect their anger at each other and i think it seems chaos ensues and political instability there's a lot of people looking back on libya. right now and that is not a great celebrations continued throughout the week cross the country and it seems few people here are really thinking about the future what libya without gadhafi it really means for them. a country with no leader

a lot of weapons and even more oil reporting from tripoli and he's now a r.t. . keeping us updated with the latest from tripoli online as well if you had what you want to use twitter stream you can keep track of account of events and post them. meantime activist brian becker thinks that the killing of colonel gadhafi signals a successful western takeover. it's a terrible crime in fact i think this is the act of the nato powers the united states britain and france the former colonizers and enslavers about africa who carried out regime change in many countries they've done it again they've taken out the leader and replaced him with a new government which will be basically a nato client regime moammar gadhafi would be alive today except for one reason and that is the nato intervention the nato bombing of sirte the nato bombing of cities and complete defiance of their own resolution resolution that said that they were

entering libya just to protect civilians it's been clear from the outset that they're killing civilians killing anybody who stands in the way of the real objective of the operation which is to carry out regime change i don't think the n.p.c. really is the floors in libya it is there for the time being at least it may be a transitional regime the real power in libya today is the united states britain and france the nato countries that carried out the regime change we see a nato takeover of a country that has the largest oil reserves in the entire african continent the ninth largest oil reserves in the world this is a coup d'etat by western powers against an oil rich african country. over in syria meantime the death of colonel gadhafi sparked a fresh wave of anti-government protests people calling for president bashar assad to step down dozens more were reportedly shot dead as troops loyal to damascus cracked down on the demonstrators over three thousand are said to have been killed in the country since march but as artists are silly reports from syria both sides

of the conflict have plenty of blood on their hands. this is the office of the trader it's one of the messages on the wall israel and the u.s. were able to buy you with a thousand dollars says another. this is where several opposition leaders work. he had been a vocal critic and had spent fourteen years in jail a very bad time he recalls like many opposition members he thinks there's really very little room for because alleviation under the current environment. because troops must be withdrawn their backs clear voice is the regime that i know. is listening to people. he insists peaceful protesters were forced to respond to attacks by security forces but he acknowledges that now it's simply not black and white responsibility for the violence goes both ways. this killing

civilians some civilians killing. soldiers they are son was one of the first soldiers killed since protests began in the country he was killed in on march twenty three. foreign media acknowledged that too many of the army and national guards have lost their lives so how can some people say that on groups didn't exist . these civilians are normally members like my son if you don't mean members kill other members this is impossible the media that says it is plain lying. and variant lies the problem the moment. there is confusion about what's really going on in the organization is taken by each side and used to defend their position so if you hear only arguments from one side you'll likely believe them amid this atmosphere of confusion and misinformation the quest for reforms continues what's in getting better forms this is another question whenever

a new legislation is may have been we see an escalation of the security situation. we come up. on the government as i mean. to propagate voices from both sides are calling. for the syrians themselves agree that if this crisis is the foundation of trust. but with each or day. school rises over a. dozen or so you are damascus. now i ten minutes past the hour here on. the program we reported. warnings. to remove. european leaders have begun crucial talks in brussels resolving the region's debt

crisis and keeping another recession at bay they are expected to tell banks to accept that the greek debt will never be paid in full and instead they should. deal with the losses this week violent clashes broke out in athens where people are fed up with more austerity measures vented their anger. was that. processor become a regular occurrence very freeing behind the five senses thing that's growing public anger because of a start see what that means to the people here in the country has been cut to their wages by around thirty percent in most cases on top of that. the pensions cost the public spending unemployment here in the country is cripplingly high and we see in the americans of a new generation of homeless these measures these things have affected everyone here in great. i've been. here almost up to that good.

and us to our young and. old sort of five one of the nation of the people who will fight peacefully because we want our lives calm by. the young and the ows people from week life to institute a protest the largest squeeze to seen since the crisis began one of the most violent through forward push very far it's that it wasn't to be thank you once again boiling eva with fights breaking out not just with the police but in the us the protesters themselves greek society is facing a social disaster for the past two years we've received austerity package after austerity package people are beyond third breaking point they cannot stand it anymore. and it's not just a phrase has is with an appetite for change and they did say it's past and top

government officials did applies in a position meant the saying he thinks that the measure of business struggling with his conscience he's not the only one speaking to police major after the protests at the start of the month tell me that the pressure today for the riot police involved in these events you know the school of the system of the it is very hard to describe the feeling. the policeman because there are two way social and professional group who are suffering by the economic measures to the government has to take sometimes it is really hard for them to take part in these protests as working people but once more they had to take to the streets to protest even the days he wanted to make their point peacefully the rest of us in the i think it's going to be watching this very closely because this isn't just a problem that affects great situation it affects the entire eurozone you can see what the people in the country right now are willing to go through to have everything. the people here are going to have to wait

a while longer see if anyone can now be ready to listen so. that's a quick pause in the weekly here on r.t. to get some other some other headlines from around the world for you this hour a seven point three magnitude earthquake has struck the city of van in eastern turkey it's quite close to the border with iran authorities say at least fifty people have being killed over one hundred fifty injured after some eighty buildings collapsed in the area including several hotels and a student dormitory there are also reports of power lost on disruption to telephone lines three military planes have taken off from the capital of van carrying aid and it supplies the red cross working on the ground. also felt in iran and georgia the turkish prime minister is on his way to the affected region. afghan president hamid karzai has said that as president would back. if it ever

went to war with the united states a statement that contrasts with his harsh criticism of his new nation's eastern neighbor during the recent u.s. secretary of state's visit to kabul both hillary clinton and cause i have accused the pakistan government providing safe haven to terrorist groups launching attacks in afghanistan. a large german satellite known as has made an uncontrollable reentry into the atmosphere after being deactivated in space over a decade ago scientists want to able to communicate with the satellite before its return in an hour trying to determine its whereabouts space enthusiasts worldwide are following the latest developments on the search for the fallen telescope online micro provokes still ahead for you in the program here on r.t. a. russian soyuz rocket a friendship space space in the tropics this week. bust a satellite navigation system into

a. nato peacekeepers trying to remove roadblocks in northern cause of have been prevented by serbians who sat on the roads guarding the disputed. border crossing serbs set up the barricades in july of zero from extending its control over the part of the country that's mostly populated by ethnic serbians. reports on the continuing standoff. as months of tension between serbs nicol ben and of course worst continue roads in northern course they remain closed for some serbs are fortifying their very case and see themselves again as victims of history these cartoon rates and defeated your granddad we defeated your father's will win again local serbs compare the nature led peacekeeping force in kosovo ok for the fascist occupiers of the past they will then why do they think that they can come and take our lands of serbia is our home we don't want to live in albania hollywood are going to look at how they

aren't that we have another one but flag and think they're gone some two hundred meters away they took 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 once the status quo in northern kosovo remains the standoff between k. four soldiers and local serbs a real 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 ben village in courses south

western was a minority living in time and place i was waiting for him in a car and i saw him coming out of the albini and cafeteria when i heard two gunshots and my dad fell down i wanted to him but i was worried he died immediately i didn't even say good bye to him. nobody voice shows us his wounds he was shocked when his father's killer is try. to eliminate the only witness i will never return to the place. i'm worrying about my family and myself in a separate incident just last week another unarmed server who was killed in a confrontation with a local these two men together with their friend mere drug the father the big family went to see what used to be served 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 his soul from but came back instead with a kalashnikov do you want to alarm bark he shouted and started farming us on drug was killed at the scene the man who just lost the france they there is only one reason he was killed. just because we are serbs periods eleven years after the end of major conflict here and despite the presence of 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 to change or if nationality course or. just not turning out twenty minutes past the hour here in the russian capital you without say kazakhstan authorities have hired former british prime minister tony blair to reform their country and improve its standing in the west mr blair will reportedly paid be paid twelve point five million dollars for his services let's talk more on this now with local analyst jim brown joining us live

oh thanks for coming on the program so just how will tony blair be able to improve the economy and its image in the west. well i'm not quite sure how he will improve the economy of kazakhstan the extensive experience of. globalization as it was carried out expanded under his rule in britain and through the city of london and maybe maybe he could. extend the globalization of the stand and look for into the world economy however of course the world economy is in crisis maybe that wouldn't work but at least he has if he can open those doors so you see i'm surprised there is some potential here i do apologize for interrupting but ok as we all know tony blair is a famous politician but not exactly for the right reasons in his time in office he supported be unpopular war in iraq on what many say are false pretexts or is he the right person you think to be giving advice. well unfortunately he might be and the

reason i think is this that he is no longer dependent on any kind of popularity i'd refer you for example to the london evening standard i think it was last thursday or friday the magazine that they give away free every week had an extensive article on tony blair's wealth and tony blair's wealth is enormous i think it's estimated at somewhere around fifty million pounds or something like that and he over a vast mansion in london and an even bigger one in the countryside and maybe possibly six other residences and so on so people are well aware of this he's made his pile they think most people think it's quite disgusting parts he's not dependent on popularity so i think he feels he can just go off and make lots and lots of money and he might be the right person to advise people how to make lots and lots of money it has nothing to do with his popularity so you're saying with his political career over now some might imagine as you're suggesting perhaps he's got the abilities now to line his pockets and is the middle east envoy he's also

working for the rules of kuwait now we've picked by kazakhstan or an oil rich central asian states i mean. his motives here business choices are what drives them is just a simple of making a profitable line of work. it seems to be i mean a few years ago somebody who is familiar with going to downing street cocktail parties so they were absolutely amazed because you thought this was during the time that tony blair was prime minister and they said they were absolutely amazed because you think if you go to a downing street cocktail party you will rub shoulders with very influential and powerful and far sighted people and you will acquire a lot of wisdom or insight and he said he was absolutely amazed because they were all talking about their house prices so blair has that reputation of being quite extremely mercenary and he has his finger in so many pies as soon as he left office he went through work for j.p. morgan bank. some astronomical some like half a million or a million pounds

a year he has his own company tony blair associates he's got his finger in various other pies and as far as being middle east envoy i suspect that he's he's he's run out of credibility there and i think he's probably kept on as a middle east envoy because the embarrassment of sacking him would be greater than the barest mother keeping him on but he's so overtly pro israeli for example in many people's eyes he whenever he goes back to the iraq inquiry because it's going on in london he simply uses it as a platform to promote. dealing with iran the urgency of dealing with iran and that ultimately they say all options are on the table i war could be in the offing so he's quiet extremely parties on the question of the middle east but i think as you say when it comes to issues obviously of embarrassment here and you suggest that the reason he still middle east envoy is just to say face and not to be sacked

for the lack of progress in the middle east peace process let's talk about it as you know in the past few days. was killed in libya just barely months. before the u.n. resolution one nine seventy three against gadhafi and against libya blair was seen as was not the e.u. president herman van rompuy. hugging khadafi to his bosom and giving him a kiss on the cheek what does that say about blair the type of person he is and his priorities. well i would say it's extreme cynicism but i think most people see him as a very cynical person he he made this great song and dance back in two thousand and three about libya supposedly giving up its weapons of mass destruction in fact i remember it very well because he was outside of london at the time it came through about nine thirty at night and blair insisted on immediately having a press conference to announce this great triumph of libya's renouncing weapons of mass destruction and he did it ahead of george bush it was quite funny george bush

caught up about half an hour later and announced the same news so blair made it a big thing and then of course he flew there there was a lot of talk of. military aircraft sales go to big contract and blair visited gadhafi i believe six times so i was very happy to bring libya in from the cold on on his terms and to be due to be seen to be doing so and in fact it came out from documents discovered at the british embassy in tripoli a couple weeks ago that when they had famously had a meeting in a tent in the desert and it was thought that this was an eccentricity of colonel gadhafi is in fact it turns out that this was at the insistence of downing street that they wanted to be seen in a tent in the desert political analyst jim brown wish we had more time for this thank you very much. you without a life in moscow now an historic moment for russia as a soyuz rocket came on friday as it was launched from

a space base in french guiana it's carrying the first part of a european satellite navigation system into orbit daniel bushell was there to witness the. launch of a new era in russian space history the first ever liftoff of a small used book it in the west confirms its position as the leader in the field it's one thousand seven hundred successful takeoffs way ahead of any other rival so when the french led team began plans to send galileo satellites into orbit it was first choice when we needed it medium. here and we immediately thought of show you which galileo is europe's new worlds the two americas g.p.s. navigation system promising much greater accuracy and reliability with so used to launch it the use confident say use is one of the best launch. on the

size so we put together the best competitive team and together we can be the best and beat all the older compare all the open and the soyuz and its lot just simply have had to be specially adapted to handle the challenges brought by the tropical climate for croix from its sister sites in russia's north and the depths of. the soil to needed some work including clearance of one hundred twenty hectares of jungle forest for the launch under a new agreement soyuz is to send many more satellites for europe into orbit from the site with much of the equipment being built in russia and then shipped to french going on a massive boost for the russian space industry as for the future well speaking only about french ground and crew. there's a contract country. full fifteen or so years can you imagine that fifty or so years which means that for the minimum six seven years both summer and the moscow

factories they will be fully engaged and there are lots of work to do this success cements the reputation of soyuz as the world's top space program but it's also turns a new page in relations between the european union and russia senior figures with their two and expressed optimism for the new corp the two galileo satellites into little bits without a glitch to the cheers of the lords team and guests in russian soyuz means union and both the e.u. and russia will be hoping the project will indeed mean a union of interests and close a partnership the new bushel altie french guiana. nearly taking over at seven thirty pm on sunday here in moscow i'll be back in just a moment with a recap about stories tuesday.

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