footage of colonel gadhafi capture and questions over his death continue to cause controversy that's libya's interim rulers rush to call for a celebration of what they call the country's final liberation and he's in our now has more from tripoli. the bill celebrating across the country as the official old so-called liberation was announced on sunday celebrations very widely here in the capital tripoli 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 even at these celebrations although there were lots of games and things for the kids to do 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 and then 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 from 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 it had the best in terms of life in fact xpect and see child mortality rates there were great social benefits and 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 so about starting to happen today we're planning to travel to one of the country's main

water systems which this completely destroyed and still being disputed who destroyed it whether it was nato or the daffy more oil was but this is one of the problems that people will be facing and though these people are celebrating in just full of elation that gadhafi 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. in our reporting right i want to remember you can keep track of more reports. coming out from the libyan capital online by following our twitter. posts right here you can see. pictures of a five year old boy who's living next door to a nato. tripoli street shattered by bombs i do follow us on the. very latest reports. and i mean time i jordan professor. says the overthrow of khadafi in libya. it was not mean they claimed it was that evolution.

in this part of the world but but in history you know he started speaking this cannot be described as that evolution it was some sort of a coup de top where you have the military coup 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 of the institutions. reports say that tens of thousands of libyans were killed that cannot be described as that evolution it's an occupation and the armed gangs we've seen what they've done with gadhafi these armed gangs. i think they're. you know we always are keen to know your opinion on the top stories we're covering here about see if we had i would see you our website and see dot com we're asking you what's the

ultimate reason behind gadhafi his death and bringing up your numbers right now here's what you're saying there was majority belief is that he's dead because he could have exposed dirty dealings in libya by western governments and corporations fifteen percent think nato just ran out of money from more air strikes an equal amount so he was killed because many n.t. see members were his former subordinates eight percent believe khadafi is to blame for the hatred that many libyans had for him going to come to get involved cost your vote. sources say that egypt's former leader hosni mubarak is fighting for his life and is in critical condition in hospital it's believed mubarak's health took a turn for the worse off that he saw the reports of the death of former libyan leader. mubarak was ousted from power in february during the arab spring after thirty years of rule middle east correspondent. has 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 the morning monday and they said that it was off to witnessing the footage of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi on television that the former egypt's 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 critically ill 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 mubarak has been since august now all of the same sources are telling me that there is an increased presence of security in strength of the hospital that they started gathering they've already last night but the service 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 been in a coma since he went on trial earlier this year. that would of course we'll be following that story closely on air and online and we'll be updating you on every development soon as we can. well still to come for you this hour here on our team who's undermining the reset in russia u.s. relations we look at why despite the white house's official course some in washington are going out of their way to derail an improvement in ties with moscow . last revisit what was once the world's largest nuclear test site in kazakhstan which still bears the scars. it's atomic legacy despite the program's

closure some twenty years ago. the e.u. summit in brussels has yet to produce a deal on the continent's debt crisis but has resulted in conflict between. david cameron 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 don't you bush will has more on the crisis talks from brussels. the e.u. leaders are putting pressure on banks to cancel on 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 charities that are obviously resisting these moves they say that if. the loans just like that

then the 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 measures germany says that spain has taken these spending cuts so why should it do the same to get their house in order also the public between france and germany is worrying investors france want 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. 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 euro zone project is starting to look like a single one way flow of cash from berlin to cells and europe ordinary greeks see it differently of course they are having to put up with very difficult cuts in public services in greece. are you trying to push the reporting right that well i with the european debt crisis showing no sign of ending there's growing support within the u.k. to reconsider the country's membership of the struggling bloc on monday the country's parliament will vote on whether to stage a referendum on being part of the new u.k. conservative party m.p. patrick mercer says that membership harms britain's sovereignty is a full interview is coming your way next hour here on a c. you're not to get any any warm words of praise for me about the european union it is damaging to the united kingdom we are a sovereign nation as well as home sovereignty we still show was european rules of

history as a place to what i hope 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 the author of all the. you with r.t. live from moscow 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. you can 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 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 an 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 over throat and not just

russian 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 war mongers the most visible one these days is the republican presidential candidate mitt romney he already has. delivered tough words to the likes of you rand pakistan and china he also called for boosting america's military spending ending the reset with russia and unfolding a 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 war hawks some of the biggest corporations and transnational corporations that make weapons that benefit from an ideology that states 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 will 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 wash away 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 our quarter past the hour here in moscow at least one hundred street protesters have been arrested by police during the occupy chicago demonstration arrested for refusing to leave a city park comes to. he's off to dozens of people were arrested in new york it's been over a month now since the protests against fat cats and corporate greed erupted in the u.s. since then they've been in europe asia and australia our correspondent lucy cuff in office keeping a close eye on the protests so you can follow her updates as you can see right here on how twitter feed and in about fifteen minutes time people of ellen his cross

talk 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 the well no no there is even more widespread phenomenon which is the mouse pad 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 revolutionary struggle when all you're doing is tweeting about it and i've been somewhat guilty of that i saw it let me disagree firstly hundreds of thousands of people are in the streets putting their bodies in the secondly you know i did this. revolutionary what we could understand is that these protests are not just physical protests this process they're about changing minds and changing ideas and some people are able to engage you know better i mean.

crystal is coming your way in about fifteen minutes time here and i see now twenty years since kazakhstan abandon its nuclear test site from its time as a soviet republic or 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 kazakhstan spitter all of the 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 solve the hydrogen bomb the ground 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 judy 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 to to the

radiation that it is being exposed to. more than one point five million people were affected by the nuclear tests the combined power all the explosions of the some of the lots of test sites was a clue and to around two and a half down hiroshima's the some people are thin skinned 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 all 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. yeah. but as i was going to the pool still a powerful stream blasted right in the front of me i was completely shaken and some of the others were not. in a nearby building we were really. over there reporting from well for much more on all of our stories are simply long dot com also online for you right now. russian spy scandal this time in germany with a couple arrested on suspicion of working for russia's foreign intelligence service for two decades. plus much sixty seven thousand dollars price tag is put on a tickets for the bolshoi theater when it opens next week after years of. the full

story on our website. now at twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow during a visit to pakistan u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has demanded that the country steps up its fight against insurgents but artie's a military analyst things that america should put a stop to lecturing others and rather try to cooperate and 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 her way from kabul to islamabad the airborne general currently the cia chief director petraeus with her entire hillary clinton here is to evolve the fact that is absolutely counterproductive in fact he would discreetly offer her that washington should apologize to islamabad for the old its negative legacy and only when and after pakistan will accept american apologies for all what did did to pakistan actually against pakistan. then the road to be open for that transparent and mutually beneficial partnership agreement between the united states pakistan and its neighbors. before we get to the business

with kareena let's check out some other world news headlines for you two hundred seventy people now confirmed dead after a seven point two magnitude earthquake struck in eastern the highest number of casualties are reported to be in the town of soma scenario where dozens of buildings collapsed tokyo does lie in one of the world's most active seismic zones scientists say that sunday's disaster could claim up to one thousand lives with many people still trapped under rubble. kenyan police suspect a grenade blast in a nairobi pub on monday was a terrorist attack the explosion who need at least fourteen people and comes a week after somalia's most feared al qaeda affiliated militant group warned of attacks inside kenya police say they linking the explosion to those threats believed to be in retaliation for a kenyan military incursion into somalia last week. ballot counting is underway in tunis you following the first free poll since the arab

spring began president when he was toppled a very very popular uprising the country is now electing a two hundred seventeen seat assembly which will draft a new constitution and appoint government the official count is due and choose day but early results show that the islamist party is meeting. ok let's get the only business update with kareena right here. we welcome to business here in r.t. thanks for joining me this hour moody's has cut its forecast for russia's banking system from stable to negative the ratings agency is concerned that the current weakness in the global economy and market volatility could lead to a decline in banking liquidity russian banks are risk of suffering a reduction in lending growth and a deterioration of assets is expected to sluggish global recovery will cause a slowdown in the country's economic expansion to two point eight percent in two

thousand and twelve three point eight percent. russia aims to double the required minimal level of bank capital to five point seven million dollars starting from next year and 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 or have to choose between boosting capital or quitting the business. these. decrees seen comac but to get to. a lot of companies currently facing difficulties with a truck to. move the short. warrants the more russian banks so in the billets to financial. short term the critics who will soon. become

a big. russian companies. if you look at the markets now oil prices are heading off to european leaders flag progress on a plan to resolve the single currency crisis light sweet is trading at eighty eight dollars per barrel and brant is at one hundred ten dollars a barrel stocks in europe are trading in the black bank shares are posting particularly strong gains in london the footsie gains point one percent this hour with minor up four point three percent and banking group barclays up two percent in frankfurt commerzbank about three point eight percent and bank rose nearly three percent here in russia as dogs rise for the second day on europe steel the r.t.s. is gaining over one and a half percent of the sour and i'm isaac's is nearly eight percent higher oil major is on the rise on high crude gross nafta's is gaining over one percent nora was actually one and a half percent nearly. as high as nico productions in the third quarter increased

twenty three percent compared to the second and retailer seven continent is adding more than seven percent it's the first half of their profit has rocketed from thirteen thousand dollars to fifty nine million. the russian ruble has been appreciating for the last two weeks after a sharp fall at the end of september but i must say the trend is likely to be short lived. we can see some adverse so in the interest 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 on me i think it will be supported by the fact that people will be spending i think 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 will not be seen in q three 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 google and

this could be another reason why in the beginning of next year we might 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. to be positive on the current starting from the beginning of next year. russia has become the world's temp fastest growing economy consultants ernst and young estimated the pace of expansion over the past ten years which is annual g.d.p. growth grew by five percent on average the rating is led by qatar with thirteen percent growth and just to compare the world's largest economies like the u.s. and u.k. developed at an average of around two percent ernst and young says emerging economies will provide half of the local g.d.p. in just nine years. russia's energy giant gazprom is turning green it's agreed to create a bio gas joint venture with dutch from gas to me and to russian companies the

total investment in the project to the estimated one hundred million euros with first applies plan for two years time 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 where pipeline construction is too expensive. that's all that's all for now but we'll bring you more updates in less than one hour.

he. says. three thirty pm on that monday here in moscow you with your headlines now critical condition sources say that egypt's former leader hosni mubarak is fighting for his life that's following his reported shock at seeing images of colonel gadhafi who

barack was ousted from power in february during the arab spring revolution after thirteen years of rule. in libya meantime many celebrate as the country's transitional government officially declares in liberation this of course following the death of ousted leader moammar gadhafi but questions remain over whether the price paid in the form of lost lives and ruined infrastructure was too high. the search for a solution to the debt crisis at a summit in brussels brings no breakthrough in the u.k. there are growing calls to leave the block all together as the parliament prepares to vote on whether to hold a referendum on the issue. i just some of mondays. discuss the power of social media such as on the internet and its power in changing the political landscape as what happened during the arab spring crosstalk.