euphoria mixed with uncertainty libya enters the post gadhafi era promising to impose shari'a law and build a democracy on the ruins of a once prosperous nation. party source who suggested egypt's former leader hosni mubarak suffered a heart attack after seeing the gruesome images of colonel gadhafi is dead and is meanwhile in a critical condition. also the e.u. summit in brussels it degenerates into petty spats tension over the debt crisis boils over the british government meantime faces a revolt by anti european m.p.'s who want out of the new. and the last wave echoing it through time as we visit a nuclear test site where the human cost of hundreds of explosions is felt even decades after the project closed down.

a very warm welcome to you on this monday you're with. real research libya's new leaders have ordered a probe into the death of former leader moammar gadhafi following mounting international calls for an investigation like this as libyans erupted in celebration after the announcement the country had been completely liberated but there are plenty of questions now for the cost of what they now call freedom and it's an hour winds. certainly people celebrating across the country as the official so-called liberation was announced on sunday celebrations very quietly here in the capital tripoli and very few people namely you go i asked them what they want now from the end to see whatever comes in right now the organization promising elections within eight months but the listener say that of course is not just 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 is 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 a force 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 official these were the rebels that began this fight for freedom in benghazi earlier this year that there will be a power struggle effect between them and most of those who are very well armed 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 there are tremendous challenges 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 license for extracting sea child mortality rates there were great

social benefits is there in stuff health care programs and so once the dust settles and people start realizing for instance sixty percent of the country right now tells them probably want to go into russia for profits at least here in the capital not sure it's much much worse in other parts of the country there's no wanting water and it's about certain topics they were planning to travel by choosing one of the country's main our water systems and just completely destroyed it still being disputed who destroyed it whether it was nato or the duffy moya's but this is. one of the problems that people will be facing and then in terms of the actual political situation here are like i said elections promise in eight months but that of course is not for sure and we just had this announcement from the head of the m.t.c. saying that the wait easy now the political life of the country begins towards should be a lot this is something that experts were afraid of that they were analyzing the country without a doubt he is going to take a much more hard line islamic direction. and he's an iraq that will to remember you

can keep track of any in the libyan capital just by taking a look at her ongoing twitter feed i have now on your screen in her latest post so she's tweeted pictures of residential areas in tripoli shattered by nato. but our human rights watch has accuse revolutionary forces in libya of a string of revenge killings looting and since the organization says it has discovered at the bodies of more than fifty could have fuel oil it's in the town of sirte and there are signs they were executed some analysts accuse nato of being responsible for fostering and lawlessness leading to atrocities. it was not the revolution i mean they claimed it was that when we started the revolutions. not only in this part of the world thought but in history you know study please speaking this cannot be described as an evolution it was some sort of a coup de tat there where you have a military coup de sac by nato and they're actually the nato. nato

actually under the pretext of helping civilians or protecting civilians waged a war against libya both infrastructure this treaty to the institutions and the ordinary civilians and the reports say that tens of thousands of libyans were killed you know that cannot be described as a revolution it's an occupation and the gangs the armed gangs we've seen what they've done with these armed gangs that. i think. we always enjoyed here at r.t. when you get involved with us so keen to know your opinions on all of our top stories today on our website r.t. dot com we're asking you what is the ultimate reason behind could after his death check out the start right here the vast majority believe he's dead because he could expose dirty dealings in libya by western governments and corporations seventeen percent think nato just ran out of money for more airstrikes but say that he was

killed because many empty seat members were his former subordinates others believe could happen is to blame for the hatred many libyans have for him in the first place i do not want to watch you got caught cast your vote. well r.t. sources say that egypt's former leader hosni mubarak is fighting for his life and in a critical condition in hospital now it's believed that mubarak's health took a turn for the worse after he saw reports of the death the former libyan leader colonel gadhafi was ousted from power in february during the arab spring after thirty years of rule of middle east correspondent paula has. 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 often the footage of the libyan leader moammar gadhafi on television that the four make egypt 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 him just a few moments ago now say that he has not died but that he is critically ill as you can well imagine the reports of the state 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 a constant of our it has been since august and all of the same sources are telling me that there is an increased presence of egypt's security in front of the hospital that they started gathering there the really the last night that these services the police service themselves say that 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 cancer he has hypertension and he has poor 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 the last pictures that have been seen of hosni mubarak was several weeks ago when he was reeled into that courthouse he and two of his sons are being tried for corruption and certainly in those pictures as mubarak was looking very frail indeed. although still to come for you in the program here what artsy talking there was. america's not destined to be one of sharply equally balanced global powers america must lead to ignore a report on why some forces in washington are eager to bring back the day of the cold war. a much heralded summer him brussels has failed again to come up with a solution to the e.u.'s spiraling debt crisis but it has succeeded in creating new divisions among leaders the growing split six put it to the surface when french

president nicolas sarkozy lashed out at british prime minister david cameron saying he was sick of the u.k.'s criticism of and interfere amid rumors that private investors have been told by the e.u. they could lose half the money they've injected into greece germany and france however vowed to prevent the continent's troubles from sparking a new global financial meltdown more and where this all puts europe without joined live by brussels as crossover. under mr your hand van overtveldt editor in chief of two of belgium's leading business magazines or trends magazine and that magazine i thank you for joining us today so the german chancellor angela merkel has promised the solution to the debt crisis will take take shape this wednesday is this just more hot air we seem to have heard this all before. this in the correct remark there seems to be some kind of agreement the coming to the surface on three issues new help for greece good for the. first secondly the

need to recapitalize banks to document of one hundred in eight billion euros and thirdly the increase of the firepower of the stabilization fund a year of his if by an amount of moralists of thousands of the billion euros now on all of these three counts it's quite easy argue that it's once more too little too late or you say it's too little too late just about twenty four hours ago the u.k. chancellor of the a shocker said that he's tired of the e.u. monetary fund having to work to use a small plaster to put over what is ultimately a fatal wound if i may i'm curious to ask you about this recent spat between cameron and it sucked cozy what does this new conflict between europe's second and third largest economies say about the whole situation in europe. well i think it pretty much an alliance the desperateness especially of french president nicolas sarkozy because a lot of what we have been doing in the eurozone to save the monetary union depends

on the triple what we call the triple a countries dreamily and france being the two most important ones and now france as every anybody knows is on the verge of losing its true a rating now if that happens that means automatically that mr sarkozy can forget about being reelected as a french president and i think his nervousness as a lot to do with that issue on the one hand losing this to italy jeopardizes his chances for a second term on the other hand if he does what is necessary to keep the triple a rating rating even just as well jeopardize his chances because then he will have to cut expenses in order to get the budgetary situation in france back under control so i think the visions from mark you were made with respect to words mr cameron has a lot to do with his own nervousness about this own situation in france so

sarkozy's political aspirations are being sidelined effectively in one way or the other when it comes to rogers role in dealing with the eurozone crisis if i may though greece greece well that's just had an incredibly bad year two thousand and eleven with numerous about's now and greece is also now asking bankers to forgive up to fifty percent of its debt are saying otherwise if it's a total collapse but for banks it's somewhat of a cash cow fred with the e.u. bailouts just how willing will they be to help. well as you probably know the report detroit can be european commission european central bank in the international monetary fund just made a highly confidential report that was leaked out in some of the western european newspapers arguing. that in mind greece will need in the coming more or less ten years as much as four hundred forty billion euros in order to keep its finances

more or less intact now this is just a huge amount and the fifty percent haircut measured by that standard won't be enough it sounds a large but it's not enough to say for greece from the down fall when when you when you manage a source already in trouble when you mention that over the coming years greece could ultimately need four hundred fifty billion euros to keep it afloat we know that the latest charge of funds have been approved for about eight billion or so but they say that that will only last for a few more months there are some that say that greece should be allowed to default by then there should be some form of devaluing the currency what is that you can you explain that to me. well that means that the greek the greek economy is really in a tailspin downwards it's really in a depression the economy's contracting by eight percent or even more on an annual basis unemployment is twenty percent or even more and obviously you can't keep your budget situation under control in that kind of economic downturn so every attempt

at the greek government makes in terms of reducing expenditure or increasing taxation backfires because it worsens the depression and the recent recession in the short term now in that kind of situation any historical experience shows you that it's through a devaluation of the currency that you can stimulate external demand and in that way overcome the internal recession now obviously for greece there's only one way to get to that point and that's leaving the eurozone well i wish we had more time so you were investigate this further you had a bout of it called editor in chief of two of belgium's leading magazines i thank you very much indeed. well with europe's debt crisis raging it's once formidable unity is set for a test later today the british parliament will vote on whether to hold a referendum over the possibility of actually leaving the e.u. speaking to r.t. u.k. conservative party m.p. patrick mercer justifies the vote saying e.u.

membership harms britain's sovereignty ice full interview is coming your way in about twenty minutes time. you're not going to get any any warm words of praise for me here but the european union is their meetings they are taking them we are a sovereign nation and sometimes one wonders what sovereignty will still show was the european history is a place to play for those who 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 but after the removal of the. order four fifteen pm on monday here in moscow the russian american ties have improved greatly since barack obama is a part of restarts washington's official rhetoric but there are also political groups in the us that are pushing for aggressive moves not only towards russia after he's got an age he can now finds out what's stirring the hawk's nest. the

cold war is long over but now in the minds of some influential american lobbies and politicians the salon web magazine has looked into the expense records of one lobby group in washington and revealed a few years it has already proven is to adopt distinct anti russian standpoints by arranging good reviews for them and paying for their trips and dinners one of those reportedly would by the law be called the orient strategy is and you're only named allie leak 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 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 caretakers all over the world including bashar assad maybe even mr putin. and maybe some chinese maybe all of 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. believe are tough words to the

likes of you rain pakistan and china you also called boosting 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 romney is pitching himself as the candidate of the military industrial complex hoping that day by. america's vast 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 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 we'll push the reset button

with russia this whole lobby and growing industry say 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 seem fluence groups in washington that call for the end of the reset with russia but it's not just washed away tensions are being ramped up the same people are doing a lot of fear mongering against countries like china 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 our team twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow i need business time in a few moments from now around one hundred thirty activists of the occupy chicago movement have been arrested for camping out in a city park after closing time. i'm holding

a protest inspired by the occupy wall street demonstrations against corporate greed and the influence of the rich in government the movement has existed for over a month now and spread across five continents but meantime the new york dozens of people were arrested in a police crackdown on activists just days ago our correspondent lucy coffey is keeping a close eye on the protests get the latest twitter feed as you can see right here also it's three thirty pm g.m.t. here with. peter lavelle and his crosstalk guests discuss what role the internet plays and 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 mean if the things that matter involved involve getting getting out with your body and being there and being present ok you know you know he's going to be there before we go to the right ok me yet it is precisely hundreds of thousands of people in the streets putting their bodies in there and secondly the idea of. revolutionary what we can understand is that these protests are not just physical presence they're symbolic process they're. beings and some people are able to gauge you know. what these bodies were not just you know this is not just about reading we have videos taken from. times square. with r.t. live from moscow news just in here from a news conference held by wiki leaks in london there was

a website it's being forced to temporarily suspend operations of this according to its founder julian assange it will instead concentrate on an aggressive fund raising campaign with fighter financial blockade imposed by and european banks the financial freeze came after the massive leak of secret u.s. diplomatic cables showing the real and often highly critical views of foreign diplomats they also contain revelations about the afghan and iraqi campaigns as sanch says cutting off the websites financing is unlawful and is vowing to fight it in court. but a scorched test site roughly the size of germany the nuclear heritage of the former soviet republic of kazakhstan but although over twenty years have passed since the country abandon the project the effects of hundreds of explosions are echoing through time he's pretty all of i got as close as possible to ground zero. 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 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 due to the radiation that it is being exposed to. more than one and a half million people were affected by the nuclear tests combined power of all the explosions seventy pilot instructor site was equivalent to around two and a half thousand hiroshima's the some people are nuclear weapons test sites 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 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. yeah sure as i was going to get tossed off use a powerful stream blasted right in front of me like white flight mean i was completely shaken and some of the others were not told or all windows were broken in a nearby institute building we were really scared the radiation emitted scarred 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 these are all over r t. i dos good to have you with us here on this

monday on r t o time out of the world of business with today. thanks rory moody's has cut its forecast for russia's banking system from stable to negative the ratings agency is concerned the current weakness in the global economy and market volatility could lead to a decline in banking liquidity russian banks are at risk of suffering a reduction in lending growth in the material ration of assets it is expects the sluggish global recovery will cause a slowdown in the country's economic expansion to two point eight percent in two thousand and twelve from the current three point eight percent. russia aims to double the required minimal level of capital to five point seven million dollars starting from next year and also wants to bring the benchmark the nine and a half billion dollars by twenty fifteen but this move is aimed at motivating small market players to grow and increase the financial stability of the sector and the

say if the plan is approved up to a third of russian banks will have to choose between boosting capital or quitting the business. these kelly two with increasing economic activity russia a lot of companies currently are facing difficulties with attract. short tallman a lot. more russian so inability in financials. short when all told are created here will soon. become a big pool blow for a real search for russian companies. and let's move to the markets so well prices are heading up of the european leaders like progress on a plan to resolve the single currency the debt crisis light sweet is currently trading just below eighty eight dollars per barrel brands is at one hundred ten

dollars european stocks are trading in the black bag shares are posting particularly strong gains in london for the c. is up point three percent with my answer for gas six and a half percent. two percent in frankfurt deutsche bank is one point four percent on. this is the picture in russia we're seeing two hours before the close they continue their rally on europe's deal the r.c.s. is gaining two percent now my six one point three look at what's moving the my six world majors are on the rise and higher crude was near there for one point simpson higher noise nickel is also up as nickel production the third quarter increased twenty three percent compared to the second quarter and retail seventh continent is adding almost ten percent after releasing an impressive boost in first half of its . russia's biggest silver producer polymaths always seeking to raise around eight hundred billion dollars that its i.p.o. in london reuters has been talking with people familiar with the matter and says

the price is expected to be around fourteen dollars for a sheer folly metal is out its main listing in russia but decided to change to get better access to foreign investors the firm hope. to join the list of top one hundred companies on the fourth. it's a simple business. so for now we will be back around fifty five minutes time but not.