this hour here on r t and critical condition the aussie sources say egypt's former leader hosni mubarak is fighting for his life following his reported shock good seeing images of colonel gadhafi is that. as many libyans celebrate the country's declared liberation and questions remain over whether the price they've paid in the form of lost lives and ruin infrastructure has been too high. and the search for a solution to be used at a crisis at a summit in brussels brings no breakthrough all in the u.k. there are growing calls to leave the bloc altogether as the parliament prepares to vote on whether to hold a referendum on that issue. it is just after two pm on monday here in moscow this is artsy with me. and

a straight to our breaking news for you this hour sources say that egypt's former leader hosni mubarak is fighting for his life and is in a critical condition in hospital now it's believed it will barrett's health took a turn for the worse after we saw reports of the death of former libyan leader cannot get out of it and barack was ousted from power in february during the arab spring after thirty years of rule assays a middle east correspondent closely and now has the latest details on this. we are receiving very conflicting reports as to the state of the former egyptian president hosni mubarak i was speaking to our contacts in cairo in the early hours of the morning monday and they said that it was off the witness thing the footage of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi on television that the for me some president suffered a massive attack and they told me that he had died in the early hours of this morning but those same sources and i was speaking to them just a few moments ago now say that he has not died but that he is concerned as you can well imagine the reports of the states are very preliminary it's difficult to get

some kind of independent verification of what is going on but certainly something is happening at the international medical center in cairo where cousin about it has been since august now the same sources are telling me that there is an increased presence of security in swanton hospital that they started gathering there really last night but the service the police service themselves say that all these reports are not true and in fact what they say that mubarak is not even in intensive care certainly the eighty three year old former president has been suffering from poor health for quite some time already in june his lawyer said that some had stomach cancer and that it was spreading and among the other reports we've heard is that in addition to cancer he has hypertension he has poor blood circulation and he has heart problems they've also been reports that he's been in a coma since membranes on trial earlier this year. paula reporting right there of course will be following that story closely on air and online and we will be

updating you want all the developments as soon as we go. now it's fair to the bloodstained image of comic about he could peril the bloody future for libya itself the graphic footage of his demise and questions over his death continues to cause controversy but as libya's interim rulers are rush to call for a celebration of what they call the country's final liberation and it's an army has more from tripoli. if people celebrating across the country as the official so-called liberation was announced on sunday celebrations very lively here in the council tripoli and very few people we go i'm asked them what they want now from the end to see whatever comes in right now the organization from single actions within eight months but on a list of say that of course is not just for sure thing because the population is very heavily armed and even up the celebrations although there were lots of games and things for the kids to do there there's

a lot of weapons out on the streets at least as i've been seeing here in the capital and so their next step now is of course to disarm the population because there are fears that first of all there could be conflict between different tribes across the country i meant within the end to see another officials these were the rebels that began this fight for freedom in benghazi earlier this year that there would be a power struggle in fact between them and most of those groups are very well armed and so that's one of the security one of the security challenges that the country is now facing among other things much of the country has been destroyed let's not forget that pre-board libya had one of the best living standards on the entire continent some people say that in fact you have the best in terms of license back i expect to see child mortality rates there were great social benefits is a very young style health care program and so once the dust settles and people start realizing for instance sixty percent of the country right now doesn't have

one you want to if you're going to rush on for profit at least here in the capital i'm sure it's much much worse i know other parts of the country there's no running water and spots starting to happen so they were planning to travel to one of the country's main water systems which was completely destroyed and still being disputed who destroyed it whether it was nato or the document it was but this is one of the problems that people will be fair. singing though these people are celebrating it just full of elation that happy is finally done few people here at least the people we've been speaking to really thinking about what that means for the future of the. party and you and i will write down what they remember you can keep track of more ports by and these are from the libyan capital of by doing so online on our twitter feed let's have a look at her latest tweets right here and she's treated pictures of a five year old boy who's living next door to a nato mistake tripoli street just shattered by the argument you can follow us on

r.t. underscore time to get the latest reports directly from the libyan capital. time and jordan based professor says the overthrow of gadhafi in libya lacks legitimacy . it was not the revolution i mean they claimed it was that evolution that have started the revolutions. not only in this part of the world but both in his study can he speaking this cannot be described as that evolution it was some sort of a coup de tat there where you have the military coup de sac by nature and they're actually the nato. nato actually under the pretext of helping civilians or protecting civilians waged a war against libya both the infrastructure of this state the institutions and the

ordinary civilians courts say that tens of thousands of libyans were killed you know cannot 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 unutterably i think they're mercenaries. all right a time now for you to get involved with us here at r.t. we're always keen to know your opinion on our top stories today on our web site r.t. topcon we're asking you what awaits libya now that colonel gadhafi is dead let's check out the stats right here the vast majority believe the country will now understand into chaos but with the oil fields guarded by western countries well about a tenth think libya will undergo years of slow painful recovery and the rest of you are split between two options whether they'll be a baghdad style green zone in tripoli with tribesmen taking control elsewhere or the country will eventually see political reform and prosperity as you take a moment you can log on to r.t. dot com cost your vote. at eight minutes past the hour here in moscow where

the e.u. summit in brussels has yet to produce a deal on the continent's debt crisis it has resulted in conflict directly between nickel our stock ozy and david cameron a fierce exchange happened when the british prime minister said that all the e.u. leaders should be involved in final talks on finding an economic solution but the french president said that he was sick of cameroon trying to influence the eurozone despite not being a part of it. as more of the crisis talks from brussels. the e.u. leaders are putting pressure on to cancel. their huge loans to greece and they are huge the latest news is that the national greece will reach one hundred eighty one percent of g.d.p. next year and of course completely unsustainable banks on to the not charity so obviously resisting these moves they say that if you bureaucrats can. just like

that then the market will simply draw up the leaders have agreed to create a european economic government with the eurozone summits to enforce it is to control countries like italy there's been a blazing row here between prime is the silvio berlusconi who reportedly refused any more national security measures germany says that spain has taken these spending cuts so why should we do the same to get their house in order also the public between france and germany is worrying investors france want a big. it's already at hundreds of billions of euros but it wants more. potential any potential failures in the eurozone 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 who are saying this whole eurozone project is starting to look like a single one way flow of cash from berlin to cells and europe. differently of course they are having to put up with very difficult cuts in public services in greece. oh he's done you bush all right what are with the european debt crisis showing no sign of ending there is a growing support within the u.k. it's a reconsider the country's membership of the struggling bloc now on monday the country's parliament will vote on whether to stage a referendum on being part of the new the u.k. conservative party m.p. patrick mercer says membership harms britain's sovereignty it's a full interview is coming your way in about twenty minutes time. you don't get any any world warm words of praise from me about the european union is damaging to the united kingdom we are a sovereign nation sometimes one wonders what sovereignty we still show last european rules of history as

a place to put what i hope is that britain in the same way that we very sensibly stayed out of membership of the euro itself and i hope that we continue to be skeptical about our further involvement with the e.u. . it is good to have you with us on this monday you're watching artsy now the white house says that ties with russia have significantly improved since the obama administration came to power but despite a warming in relations some political groups in the us are actively pushing for a more aggressive stance so not only against russia he's gone a chicken out six 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 because so long web magazine has looked into the expense records of one lobby group in washington and revealed the years it has courted journalists to adopt this entire russian standpoint by arranging interviews with them and paying for their

trips and dinners one of those reportedly wooed by the lobby called orient strategy is a drone lease named allie lake from the washington times he wrote as series of pieces undermining the reset bank from russia and the u.s. one of his articles focus 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 mr ali is officially contracted by the georgian government we try to get in touch with mr lay 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 actively root for the war in iraq then he was in each to senator john mccain well known for his hawkish foreign policy views senator mccain never concealed his desire to see russian leaders overthrow and not just russia dictators all over the

world including bashar assad maybe even mr putin 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 i have magazines i have newspapers to push this idea of the supremacy of the united states washington has never been short of war mongers so most visible one of these days is the republican presidential candidate mitt romney he has already. deliver tough words to the likes of you brand pakistan and china you also called america's military spending ending the reset with russia and unfolding the real cost missile defense program in europe america is not destined to be one of several equally balanced global powers america

must lead the world from these pitching himself as the candidate of the military industrial complex hoping that made by. america's best military industry will be first to benefit from the strong rhetoric of washington's warhawks some of the biggest corporations and transnational corporations that make weapons that benefit from an ideology that states that the un united states must 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 war so when president obama said will push the reset button with russia this whole lobby and growing industries are well no that's bad because 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 russia where tensions are being ramped up the same people are doing a lot of fear mongering against countries like china and iran believes 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. quarter past the hour at least one hundred twenty activists have been arrested by police during the occupy chicago demonstration arrested for refusing to leave a city park this comes out two days after dozens of people were arrested in new york it's been over a month since the protests against the fact cats and corporate greed erupted in the u.s. since then they've been repeated in europe asia and australia oh of course one of them you see kaffir north is keeping a close eye on the protests you can follow us on twitter right here you can see the

feed and next hour he's people of his crosstalk guests discuss what role the internet plays in this and other protests around the world. you know there used to be the term armchair revolutionary in the world that now there is even more widespread phenomenon which is the the mousepad revolutionary. which is somebody who's sitting at his computer you know probably in the basement with mom on the first floor. thinks that he's actively engaged revolutionary struggle when all you're doing is tweeting about it and i've been somewhat guilty of that i still mean it's very costly hundreds of thousands of people are in the streets putting that bodies in there and secondly you know i did this. revolutionary what we could understand these protests are not just physical process that's the process they're about changing minds and beings and some people are able to engage better i mean.

you can i watch crosstalk throughout the day here i see now twenty years since the kazakhstan abandon its nuclear test site from its time as a soviet republic now the country is 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 kazakhstan patroller reports . over more than forty years around five hundred nuclear tests took place right here on the comeback step one hundred sixteen of those taking place above ground including the testing of the first saw the hydrogen bomb now ground zero for those tests is just behind me over there now that's around two kilometers away here is as close as it is safe to get you 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. more than one point five million people were affected by the luke luke become mine power all the explosions of this in a polite and stern site was a clue and two around. the semi 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 air 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 scars from decades of tests the radiation emitted scarred 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 all those people who live nearby who witness not first test in one nine hundred forty nine still remember the impact it had on the local population. sure but as i was going to the pool still a powerful stream blasted right in front of me i was completely shaken and some of the others were not. in a nearby institute building we were really scared. of the reporting from start well i know nearly twenty minutes past the hour much more and all of our stories just log onto our t. dot com also online for you right now. though russian spy scandal this time in germany a couple arrested on suspicion of working for russia's foreign intelligence service for no less than two decades. plus true true much a sixty seven thousand dollars price tag is put on

a ticket for the bolshoi theater when it opens next week after years of i get the full story on our website. as r.t. live from moscow now during our visit to pakistan u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has demanded the country steps up to its fight against insurgents military analyst you're going to be pushed off thinks that america should stop being a lecturer to others and actually 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 scene and expect different results if it were otherwise then us

secretary of state would rather refrain from the same least during remarks visit pakistan on her way from kabul to islamabad the airborne general currently the cia chief director petraeus will whisper into hillary clinton years to evolve the fact that is absolutely counterproductive in fact 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 he did to pakistan actually against pakistan own them the road to be open for the transparent and mutually beneficial partnership agreement between the united states pakistan and its neighbors.

targets are for the world up here in r.t. some of the headlines from around the world this hour two hundred seventy people have been confirmed dead after a seven point two magnitude earthquake hit east and the highest number of casualties are reported to be in the town of the city of van where dozens of buildings collapsed does lie in one of the world's most active seismic zones scientists say that sunday's disaster could claim up to a thousand lives with many people still trapped underground. kenyan police suspect that a grenade blast in a nairobi pub early on monday was a terrorist attack the explosion wounded at least fourteen becomes a week after somalia's most feared al qaeda affiliated militant group warned of what types inside kenya police say linking the explosion to those threats believed to be a retaliation for a kenyan military incursion into somalia last week. and 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 uprisings the country is now electing a two hundred seventeen seat assembly which will draft a new constitution and appoint a government official counting if you want to stay the early results show the islamist party. and now it's currently three. it's ok for the business to kareena and joins us next. hello and welcome to our business thanks for joining me at this hour the russian ruble has been appreciating for the last two weeks after shot at the end of september but analysts say the trend is likely to be short lived. we can see some adverse. do well in terms of i think in the sense that google may strengthen the little bit but i think this is going to be a short term phenomenon only i can be disappointed by the fact that polluted

spending can be supported by the fact that the economy be performing relatively well in the beginning of this year but become censuses moving in a direction that probably one of the sunni community united states as a consequence of that will grow the assets and the russian assets broadly we're not going to be seeing a lot of speculative capital chasing chasing global assets including google 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 each other 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 blue book starting from the beginning of next year. russia's become the world's temp process growing economy consultants ernst and young estimated that the pace of expansion over the past ten years russia's annual g.d.p. growth grew by five percent on average the rating is led by qatar with thirteen percent growth and just compare the world's largest economies like the u.s. and u.k.

developed with an average of around two percent earnest and young says emerging economies will provide half of global g.d.p. in nine years. aims to double the required minimal level of bank capital to five point seven million dollars starting from next year it also wants 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 analysts say if the plan is approved up to a third of russian banks will have to have to choose between boosting capital or quick distance. police kelly sue decreasing in economic activity. a lot of companies scurrying from the very same difficulties we've tracked. who should colman long. opening new warrants in more russian banks so in the ability to financials. should. be created here

will soon. become a full blown war in real such russian companies. prefer to look at the markets now all 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 blend at one hundred and ten dollars per barrel european stocks are trading in the black as well bank shares are posting particularly strong gains in london the food see gains have a percentage who have nine out of four point three percent and banking two barclays up two percent in frankfurt commerzbank advanced over three hundred percent and bank rose nearly three percent here in russia stocks are higher heading for the strongest level and more than a month the r.t.s. is gaining over one and a half percent in the my six is up over just under a percent oh majors are on the rise on higher crude cross nafis gaining over one

percent noisemaker as high as as nickel production in the third quarter increased twenty three percent compared to the second and retailer seven consonances that in more than seven percent its first half net profit has rocketed from thirty thousand dollars to fifty nine million dollars. russia's energy giant gazprom is turning green it agreed to create a bio gas joint venture with torture for gas and two russian companies the total investment in the project is estimated at one hundred million euros with first supplies planned for two years' time the start ups annual production could reach up to thirty five billion cubic meters of gas made out of organic materials analysts say bio gas technology could help bring gas to remote parts of the country pipeline construction is too expensive. for now to stay for stay with us for headline news with laurie coming up.

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