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that's as libya's interim rulers rushed to call for a celebration of what they call the country's final liberation and he's now reports from tripoli. well the so-called libyan liberation has been announced in benghazi people celebrating across the country of course here in the capital tripoli no exception people out here on what was formerly called green square now it's called martyrs square out here with their fire with their children their games for the kids much less presence of tanks as there has been over the past couple of days ago some people still are shooting into the air as a form of celebration also some fireworks in the mix as well and people really out fight has to be said although a strange mix it seems like very much a family atmosphere i as these celebrations take place with that said when you go out into the crowd and ask them what they see happening here beyond gadhafi what they expect from the interim government whoever might take over after that they say freedom freedom freedom they can say very much more and that's
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a time when you start to think about free or libya and of course before the war libya could boast one of the highest living standards on the continent if not the highest in terms of my life expectancy loads how it works how the rates they had a european style health care system very good social benefits and experts that we've been speaking to from around the world not so much here in libya to be fair i do believe that really people once they the dust settles in the celebrations finish they might realize that the rebuilding and reconstruction of this country is going to be a tremendous feat i mean really we had a chance to go around the outskirts of tripoli today it's in samples really there's a lot of destruction here does a lot of work to be done just in terms of rebuilding we're hearing that some sixty percent of the country doesn't have money mourner and then you go into the restaurants and syrian capital because of the power from someone you care to as opposed to muslims it was something it was the nato bombings because there are
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rumors that could happen was in fact fighting in the country plumbing system which is very fast i know there are rumors that they were hacked right mike tell me more hell of a conflict. reports there in terms of the new government now owns me today from the head of the had to say was doing was you know the cause and then he sees the country moving towards the real war and this is something that analysts were speaking about way before gadhafi was killed that if it happens but i'm sure we'll be moving more hard line long the direction that we know that it's something that you can tell by being at the celebration but it's not quite what the people are thinking about just yet now they're happy that gadhafi is gone and that's pretty much all that are on the minds of the people here on martyr square in the libyan capital reporting from tripoli and he's now an arts. well you also follow any song on twitter and get the latest from her and her updates from tripoli jordan based professor hisham gusset says the overthrow of qaddafi in libya lacks legitimacy it
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was not that evolution i mean they claimed it was that evolution and i have studied the revolutions. not the one in this part of the world but the but in his to you know he started to be speaking this cannot be described as that evolution it was some sort of a coup d'etat there where you have the military coup de back by nato and actually the nato. and nato actually under the pretext of helping civilians of protecting civilians waged a war against libya both the infrastructure of the state of the institutions and the old lady civilians and very poor to say that tens of thousands of libyans with no that's going to be described as that evolution it's an occupation and the gangs the armed gangs we've seen what they've done with gadhafi these armed gangs that nothing evolution and i think the message that it's. you're watching r.t. live from moscow we always keen to know your opinion on our top stories so today in
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our website r.t. dot com we're asking what a way to libya now that colonel gadhafi is dead let's take a look at the side vote that we've got for you so far so the vast majority believe the country will now just say and into chaos with the oil fields guarded by western countries while about it can think leave you know will undergo years of slow painful recovery while the rest of the viewers are split between two options whether there will be a baghdad style green zone in tripoli with tribesmen taking control elsewhere or the country will eventually see political reform parroting what is now what do you think by logging on to our website our dot com. the e.u. summit in brussels has yet to produce a deal on the continent's debt crisis but has resulted in conflict between nicolas sarkozy and david cameron the fear is six change happened when the british prime minister said all. should be involved in final talks and fighting and cannot make
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solution but the french president said he was sick of cameron trying to influence the eurozone despite not being part of it has more on the crisis talks from brussels. the e.u. leaders are putting pressure on to cancel losses on their huge loans to greece and they are huge the latest news is that the national debts of greece will reach one hundred eighty one percent of g.d.p. next year and of course that's completely unsustainable banks' own so they're not charities so they're obviously resisting these moves they say that if some e.u. bureaucrats can cancel loans just like that then the world lending market will simply dry up the leaders have agreed to create a european economic government with regular eurozone summits to enforce it is to control countries like italy there's been a blazing row here between prime minister silvio berlusconi who reportedly refused
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any more national moves there are measures germany says that spain has taken these spending cuts so why shouldn't italy do the same to get their house in order also the public realm between france and germany is worrying investors france wants a bigger bailout port it's already a ton of billions of euros but it wants more to rescue any potential any potential failures in the eurozone and on worries that they could be more countries next whereas germany germany's angela angela merkel is well aware that her voters the german taxpayers will have to pay for any such bailouts and she's pushing for those countries to try and get their house in order on their own it's all in all german officials here are saying this whole euro zone project is starting to look like a single one way flow of cash from berlin to southern europe ordinary greeks see differently of course they are having to put up with very difficult cuts in public services in greece. reporting there from brussels karoli and
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a professor of political science as am popular a crisis measure is mainly a political nightmare as well as a financial one. europe seems to be going from one summit to the next and solving and nothing although. with the new discussion and debate around this summit it seems that european leaders are edging closer to becoming were listed on some points notably. in a stare into programming greece it's impossible for greek greece to pay back its set. stare into a program in greece and italy in spain and portugal everywhere in europe i mean there's going to be no consumption anywhere and the u.s. and china are pushing europe towards. adopting a solution because their american banks are also exposed exposed you know european banks insurance in the u.s. and so on so there is the possibility of international travel but right now are
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what. liberals and come up with the low of europe is more for everyone so the greeks more financial toll more than what he has before italy the government is terribly unpopular. slane the government is also a popular and you have movements that are now minority movements but there are people protesting in the streets making getting stronger and stronger so they could be political turmoil on top of the financial turmoil. well with the european debt crisis showing no signs of danding there is growing support within the u.k. to reconsider the country's membership of the struggling bloc artie's discuss that issue among other things with the u.k. conservative party m.p. patrick mercer it's voluntary it's coming your way next hour but here's a quick walk. i mean you are a skeptic so afraid you you're not going to get any any warm words of praise from
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me about the european union dues damages the united kingdom we are a sovereign nation and sometimes one wonders what sovereignty we still show was the european rules strictures of placed upon this or i who is that britain in the same way that we very sensibly stayed out of membership of the euro itself i hope that we could send you to be skeptical about offers revolt with the. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton says ties between moscow and washington have significantly improved since she was appointed america's top diplomat by the spidy a warming in relations some political groups in the us are actively pushing for a more aggressive stance and not only against russia are just going to count takes a look at the reasons behind the hawkish mood in washington. the cold war is long over but not in the minds of some influential american lobbies and politicians to
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so long web magazine has looked into the expense records of one lobby group in washington and revealed a few years it has courted journalists to adopt distinct anti russian standpoint by arranging interviews with them and paying for their trips and dinners one of those reportedly rude by the lobby called orient strategy is a journalist named allie lake from the washington times he wrote a series of pieces undermining the reset between russia and the u.s. one of his articles focused on allegations that russia masterminded last year's explosion near the u.s. embassy in georgia accusations he took from georgian investigators of course as it turns out the lobby that approached the leak is officially contracted by the georgian government we try to get in touch with mr lake he never responded but analysts say it's not so much the georgians agenda that a lobby like orian strategies is pushing forward but rather that of washington hawks the head of orient was in each to former defense secretary ronald rumsfeld he
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actively rooted for the war in iraq then he was an h. to senator john mccain well known for his hawkish foreign policy views senator mccain never concealed his desire to see russian leaders over throat and not just russia dictators all over the world including bashar assad maybe even mr putin power and maybe some chinese maybe all of them maybe a little bit more nervous because clearly the people of libya rose up we assisted them this group of people. has a large number of institutions that they work through they have a large number of think tanks they have law firms they have magazines they have newspapers to push this idea of the supremacy of the united states washington has never been short of war mongers the most visible one these days is the republican presidential candidate mitt. romney he has already delivered tough words to the likes of the rand pakistan and china he also called for boosting america's military
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spending ending the reset with russia and unfolding the robust missile defense program in europe america is not destined to be one of several equally balanced global powers america must lead the world in these pitching himself as the candidate of the military industrial complex hoping that they by. america's best military industry will be first to benefit from the strong rhetoric of washington's war hawks some of the biggest corporations and transnational corporations that make weapons that benefit from an ideology that states that the united states most exercise military supremacy and have an endless arms race and those big companies are tied to the biggest banks on wall street there is a military industrial complex and it is facilitated by having a pretext for endless wars so when president obama said we'll push the reset button with russia this whole lobby and growing industry said well no that's bad because
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any relaxation of tensions means less of an excuse to produce more and more weapons the u.s. is the world's number one weapons producer and exporter and countries like georgia are looking to become the next market for american weapons we are quite familiar with u.s. politicians influence groups in washington that call for the end of the reset with russia but it's not just one show where tensions are being ramped up the same people are doing a lot of fear mongering against countries like china iran and the list this pretty long actually while experts agree the only side that could possibly benefit from a potential confrontation is america's military machine definitely not the people in those countries involved i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team. at least one hundred anti wall street party asterisk have been arrested by police during the occupy chicago demonstration for refusing to leave a city park. this comes two days after dozens of people were arrested in new york it's been over a month since the protest against fact cats and corporate greed erupted and the
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u.s. since then they have been repeated in europe asia and australia. it's keeping a close eye on the protests although all the updates on her twitter feed down to later in the day are these people will balance cross discuss what role they enter an app ways of this and other protests around the world. you know there used to be the term armchair revolutionary the well no no there is even more widespread phenomenon which is the mousepad revolutionary. which is somebody who's sitting in his computer you know probably in the basement with mom on the first floor. thinks that he's actively engaged in the revolutionary struggle when all you're doing is tweeting about it and i've been somewhat guilty that i say well if i may disagree firstly hundreds of thousands of people are in the streets putting their bodies in the line secondly you know i did this. revolutionary what we could understand is
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that these protests are not just physical protests this symbolic protest they're about changing minds and changing ideas and some people are able to engage you know better. more news today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. giant corporations rule today.
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i. want to hear or sense has a stand abandoned its nuclear attack science from its time as a sovereign republic the country's atomic arsenal has gone from being the world's fourth largest to nothing but decades on from seeing hundreds of explosions the environmental and human cost is still being felt from cattle stan artie's peter oliver and now reports over more than forty years around five hundred nuclear tests took place right here on the kazakhstan one hundred sixteen of those taking place above ground including the testing of the first soviet hydrogen bomb the ground
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zero for those tests is just behind me over there and that's around two kilometers away here is as close as it is safe to get to to the high radiation levels that exist ground zero however experts have told me that if i was to pick up anything from the ground even where i am here it would still be potentially dangerous due to the radiation that it is being exposed to. and one point five million people were affected by the nuclear tests the combined potable the explosions of the summit to lots of stem science was a clue into round two and how found in hiroshima the semi pollutants can nuclear weapons test site was the largest in the world to get an idea of just how vast it actually is it must be seen from the. affecting an area of around three hundred thousand square kilometers roughly the size of germany. stretches out further than the eye can see in every direction each square kilometer bearing the radiological
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scars from decades of tests the radiation emitted more than just the landscape there was a huge increase in cases of cancer and serious defects amongst the local population the effects of these tests still being felt three generations after the first explosion while those people who live nearby who witnessed that first test in one nine hundred forty nine still remember the impact it had on the local population. but as i was going to the post office a powerful stream blasted right in front of me like. i was completely shaken and some of the others were not. all windows were broken in a nearby building we were really scared these are all over. of a much more on our story is the log on to our team dot com our website and that's what's on the line for you now and now they're all russian spy scandal. a couple arrested
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on suspicion of working for russia's foreign intelligence service for decades. to do much a sixty seven thousand dollar price tag. for the fear when it opens next week after years of refurbishment get the full story. during her visit to pakistan u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has the man out of the country steps up its fight against insurgents artie's military analyst and rachelle thinks america should put a stop to lecturing others and try to cooperate rather than confront the trademark of u.s. foreign policy when it comes to pakistan and afghanistan is to do more of this
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scene and expect different results if it were otherwise then u.s. secretary of state would rather refrain from this e-mail easterling remarks pakistan on her way from kabul to islamabad the airborne general currently the cia chief directive to troops would whisper in hillary clinton ears to the ball defect that is absolutely counterproductive in effect he would discreetly all for her that washington should apologize to islamabad for the old its negative legacy and only women after pakistan will accept american apologies for all what did indeed to pakistan or actually against pakistan all of them the
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road to be will be open for the transparent and mutually beneficial partnership agreement between the united states pakistan and its neighbors that's now take a look at some other stories from around the world more than two hundred people have been killed after a seven point two magnitude earthquake hit eastern turkey the highest number of casualties are reported to be the town of our states and the city of van where dozens of buildings collapsed turkey lies in one of the world's most active seismic zones sayas a sunday's disaster could claim up to one thousand lives with many people still trapped under the rubble. ballot counting is underway in tunisia following the first free poll since the arab spring began president ben ali was toppled in january following weeks of popular uprising the country's now electing a two hundred seventeen seat assam we which will draft a new constitution at a point and government the first results are due on monday with these lamas party
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and not a speck specter to come out on top. the world has had its first glimpse of french president nicolas sarkozy's new born daughter the country's thirst lady was leaving in the tyranny of the clinic in paris that a girl named julia became the first child ever born to a sitting french president carla bruni sarkozy gave birth on wednesday when french leader himself was in germany for an emergency meeting. but we're up to date here on our table to what's happening this korea's got the latest. hello and welcome to our business update this hour our top story the russian ruble has been appreciating for the last two weeks to shop for at the end of september but say the trend is likely to be shortly it. we can see somebody versed so in in there in the interest of i think in the sense that google may strengthen the
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little bit but i think this is going to be a short term phenomenon only i think it will be supported by the fact that people will be spending i think supported by the fact that the economy will be performing relatively well in the beginning of this year but become censuses moving in a direction that probably not be seen in q three united states as a consequence or without for global assets including russian assets broadly we're not going to be seeing a lot of speculative capital chasing chasing global assets including doable and this could be another reason why in the beginning of next year we may not see a lot of pressure on google to appreciate which is again another reason why i think that it's really difficult to find very many factors were really new reasons to be positive on the currency on do books starting from the beginning of next year. let's have a look at the markets now or prices are heading up after european leaders flagged progress on a plan to resolve the single currency zone debt crisis light sweet is trading at eighty eight dollars per barrel while brant bland over one hundred ten dollars per
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barrel asian markets are strongly up on hopes of a close you wrote that resolution technology stocks are among the main gainers on the nikkei t.v. k. is up seven and a half percent well japanese wireless major soft bank is over three percent in the black and energy stocks are on the rise on the rise in hong kong with chinese oil company up more than seven percent supported by stronger crude. the train station here in moscow will kick off in less than one hour the russian markets ended a high note on friday with retailers and energy stocks among the main game. russia aims to double the required minimal level of bank capital to five point seven million dollars tarting from next year it also plans to bring the benchmark to nine and a half million dollars by two thousand and fifteen the move is aimed at motivating small market players to grow and increase the financial stability of the sector and say if the plan is approved up to
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a third of russian banks will have to choose between boosting capital or quitting. peace kelley to decrease in a comic activity around russia a lot of companies current lee a facing difficulties with attracting funding both the short told and long and with opening new pretty it winds among russian banks so inability in financial sector in short film and long term the critics here will sooner or later become a big problem for him real set for russian companies. what is that a giant gas problem is turning green it's agreed to create a bio gas joint venture with dutch for gas you need two russian companies total investment into the project is estimated at one hundred million euros with the first supplies plan to arrive in two years the start ups annual production could reach up to thirty five billion cubic meters of gas made out of organic materials
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analysts say bio gas technology could help bring gas to remote parts of the country where pipeline construction is too expensive. that's why half if an hour join me in about forty five minutes from best starting. wealthy british style sun. sometimes.
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markets why not. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike stronger for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines tune into cars a report on our. which writer if you knew more about the from us to the pressure the sun. starts on t.v. dot com. it's. just
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so. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow here's a look at the top story in libya mannie celebrate as the country's transitional government officially declares liberation following the death of ousted leader
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model today but questions remain over whether the price paid in the form of lost lives and ruined him for structure was too high. more than two hundred people are reported dead after a powerful earthquake in eastern turkey the fear of the death toll could reach a thousand many people remain trapped under rubble. and public bickering but no breakthrough with the search for a solution to the crippling debt crisis at a summit in brussels hits the buffers that's as the french and british leaders argue over of the u.k.'s attempts to influence the euro's future spike not being part of the eurozone. on x. we explore the siberian city of homs a place where many people were sent into exile by the russians ares the city's past and present is exploring in our special report. their own history.

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