gadhafi mubarak was ousted from power in february during the arab spring thirty years of rule the middle east of course one of. the latest details. 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 this morning monday and they said that it was off to witnessing the footage of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi on television that the former 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 said that he has not died but that he is. as you can well imagine the reports at this stage 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 hosni mubarak has been since august now the same sources are telling me that there is an increased presence of security in the center of the hospital that they started gathering

there last night but these services the police service themselves say that all these reports are not true and in fact that 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 he had stomach cancer and that it was spreading and among the other reports we've heard is that in addition to can said he has hypertension he has put blood circulation and he has heart problems they've also been reports that he's being in a coma since he went on trial earlier this year. paula reporting right there of course we'll be following that story closely on air and online and we will be updating you want all the developments. now it's feared that the blood stained image of colonel gadhafi could herald a bloody future for libya itself the graphic footage of his demise and questions over his death continue to cause controversy that's as libya's interim rulers

a rush to call for a celebration of what they call the country's final liberation parties 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 vary widely here in the town still to believe and very few people we go i'm asked them what they want now from the end to see and whoever comes in right now the organization promising elections within eight months but analysts are saying that of course is not 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 will 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 prewar in libya had one of the best living standards on the entire continent some people say that in fact it had the best in terms of life in fact expectancy child mortality rates there were great social benefits and so your 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 running water if you're going to rush on some outlets at least here in the capital and i'm sure it's much much worse in other parts of the country there's no running water and it's about 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 daffy why it was but this is one of the problems that people will be face. even though these people are celebrating you just full of ablation that he is finally gone few people here at least the people we've been speaking to a really thinking about what that means for the future of libya. and i write that i will do remember you can keep track of more ports from the libyan capital by doing so online on our twitter feed let's look at her tweets right here she's twitter pictures of a five year old boy who's living next door to a nato mistake tripoli street just shattered by bottom and you can follow us on r.t. under school com to get the latest reports directly from the libyan capital. meantime jordan based professor. says that the overthrow of khadafi in libya lacks legitimacy.

it was not the revolution i mean they claimed it was that evolution and i have studied the revolutions. not only in this part of the world but the but in history you know study speaking this cannot be described as that evolution it was some sort of a coup de top where you have the military coup de back by nato and actually the nato . nato actually under the pretext of helping civilians or protecting civilians waged a war against libya both the infrastructure of the state the institutions the ordinary civilians very poor say that tens of thousands of libyans were killed no that 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 but nothing of dilution i think that. all right it's 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 called 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 descend into chaos but with the oil fields guarded by western countries while about the 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 i do take a moment you can look on the cost of your vote. eight minutes past the hour here in moscow and the e.u. summit in brussels has yet to produce a deal on the continent's debt crisis but has resulted in conflict directly between nicolas sarkozy 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 trying to influence the eurozone despite not being a part of it he's done your bushel has more of the crisis talks from brussels. the e.u. leaders are putting pressure on banks to cancel. 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 completely unsustainable banks on to the not charities so they're obviously resisting these moves and they say that if you can. just like that then the world lending market will simply dry up the e.u. 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

any more national laws there it's the 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 wants a bigger bailout ports it's already at hundreds 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 who are saying this whole eurozone project is starting to look like a single one way flow of cash from berlin to styles and europe ordinary greeks see it differently of course they are having to put up with very difficult cuts in public services in greece. ah he's done

a bushel right there with the european debt crisis showing no sign of ending there is a growing support within the u.k. to 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 e.u. well the u.k. conservative party m.p. patrick mercer says membership harms britain's sovereignty and full interview is coming your way in about twenty minutes time. you're going to get any any warm words of praise for me about the european union is damaging the kingdom we are a sovereign nation something as well as home sovereignty we still show was the european rules of history as a place to what i hope is that britain in the same way that we've very sensibly stayed out of membership of the euro itself i hope that we could send you to be skeptical about our further of all the.

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 and not only against russia. can now 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 the 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 strategist 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 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 lake 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 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 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 they have magazines they have newspapers to push this idea of the supremacy of the united states washington has never been short of who are mongers the most visible one of these days is the republican presidential candidate mitt romney he has already. delivered tough words to the likes of pakistan and china he also called america's military 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 from 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 more 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 war 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 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 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 wall street 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 and it's been over a month since the protests against fat cats and corporate greed erupted in the u.s. since then they've been repeated in europe asia and australia. is keeping a close eye on the protests you can follow us on twitter right here you can see the feed and next hour. and his cross told guests discussed what role the internet plays and this and other protests around the world. you know there used to be the term armchair revolutionary you will never know there is even more widespread phenomenon which is the mouse pad 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 suppose i mean it's a very firstly hundreds of thousands of people were in the streets putting that bodies in the law and secondly the idea of this. revolutionary what we could understand is that these protests are not just physical process that's the process they're about changing minds and changing ideas and some people are able to gauge you know better than. you can i watch crosstalk throughout the day here on our team now twenty years since of kazakhstan abandon its nuclear test site from its time as a soviet republic and 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 put all of our reports. over more than forty years around five hundred nuclear tests took place right here on the cause like step one hundred sixteen of those taking place above ground including the testing of the first solve the hydrogen bomb the 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 journey to the radiation that it is being exposed to. more than one point five million people were affected by the nuclear tests become my own rule the explosions of the some of the lots of test sites was a clue into round two and how found the russian must the some people are thins 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 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 scar more than just the landscape there was a huge increase in cases of cancer and serious birth 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. as i was going to the pool still a powerful stream. of me i was completely shaken and some of the others were not.

we were really. over there reporting from. well i know nearly twenty minutes past the hour much more on all of our stories just log on to our. also on line for you right now. germany the couple arrested on suspicion of working. for. two decades. plus. a. price tag on a ticket for the bolshoi theater when it opens next week. the full story on our website.

this is r.t. live from moscow during a 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 think that america should stop being a lecture to others and actually try to cooperate. 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 pakistan on here way from kabul to islamabad the airborne general currently the cia chief directive betray us police her entire hillary clinton ears and

about the fact that is absolutely counterproductive in fact he would discreetly offer her that washington should apologize to islamabad for the old it's negative legacy and only went in after pakistan will accept american apologies for all what he did to pakistan actually against pakistan all of them the road to be will be open for that transparent and mutually beneficial partnership agreement between the united states pakistan and its neighbors. time for the world update here on are to some other 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 dozens of buildings collapsed doesn't 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 under rubble. kenyan police suspect that a grenade blast in a nairobi pub early on monday was a terrorist attack the explosion wounded at least fourteen and it comes a week after somalia's most feared al qaeda affiliated militant group warned of attacks inside kenya police say that linking the explosion to those threats believed to be a retaliation for a kenyan military incursion into somalia last week. invalid accounting is underway in following the first free poll since the arab spring began president ben ali was toppled in january following weeks of popular uprisings of the country is now electing a two hundred seventeen seat assembly which will draft a new constitution and appoint a government the official counters do you want to stay the early results show the

islamist party. is currently. ok the business news kareena joins us next. hello and welcome to business thanks for joining me at this hour the russian ruble has been appreciating for the last two weeks after shop full at the end of september but analysts say the trend is likely to be short lived. we can see somebody versed in rule 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 think it will be supported by the fact that people will be spending disappointed by the fact that economists before me reality do well in the beginning of this year but become censuses moving in a direction that probably not be seen acute the united states as a consequence of that for global assets including russian assets broadly we're not going to be seeing a lot of speculative capital chasing chasing global assets including and this could

be another reason why in the beginning of next year we might not be a lot of pressure on google to appreciate which is again another reason why it's really difficult to find very many factors new reasons to be positive on the currency on do books starting from the beginning of next year russia's become the world's temp pastas 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 world's largest economies like the u.s. and u.k. developed at an average of around two percent earnest and young says emerging economies will provide half of global g.d.p. and nine years. welsh 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 well have to choose between boosting capital or quitting business. these. decrees seem economy but to get to the role a lot of companies currently facing difficulties with attracting funding who should coleman. lawrence the more russian banks so in the bill are to. find their insurer. short and long term the committed to will soon will leitch become a big pool bloom. for russian companies. getting a look at the markets now oil prices are heading up after european leaders flag 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 eggs 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 percent with out of augusta up four point three percent and banking good barclays up two percent in frankfurt commerzbank at about just over three a half percent and bush a 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 just under a percent oil majors are on the rise on higher crude crossing at this gaining over one percent noise as high as as nickel production in the third quarter increased twenty three percent compared to the second and retailer seven consonant is adding 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 gas me 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 by bio gas technology could help bring gas to remote parts of the country a pipeline construction is too expensive. so for now to stay for us stay with us for headline news coming up.

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