this as libyans erupted in celebration after the announcement their country had been completely liberated but there are plenty of questions now over the cost of what they now call freedom and it's in our reports. certainly people celebrating across the country as the official so-called liberation was announced on sunday celebrations very widely here in the capital tripoli and very few people saying we go out now ask them what they want now from the end to see and whoever comes in right now the organization promising elections within a month but the listener say 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 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 books 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 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 from expectancy child mortality rates there were great social benefits there's a european 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 we're going to rush on for profits at least here in the capital i'm sure it's much much worse and other parts of the country there's no running water and so

about certain topics 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 jaffe moya's but this is. one of the problems that people will be facing and then in terms of the actual political situation here is 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 weight easy the political life of the country begins towards real law and this is something that experts were afraid of that they were analyzing the country without gadhafi 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 to have a look now on your screen in her latest post she tweeted pictures of residential areas in tripoli shattered by nato bombs. well

human rights watch has accused a revolutionary forces in libya of a string of revenge killings looting and other abuses the organization says it has discovered the bodies of more than fifty khadafi loyalists in the town of sirte but there are signs they were executed some analysts accuse nato of being responsible for fostering the lawlessness leading to atrocities. it was not that evolution i mean they claimed it was that evolution and i have studied the revolutions. not only in this part of the world but but in history you know historically 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 tat 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 history of the institutions and the ordinary civilians reports 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 that nothing of dilution i think. we always enjoyed here at r.t. when you get involved with tkinter know your opinions on all of our top stories today on our website 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 have exposed dirty dealings in libya by western governments and corporations seventeen percent think nato just ran out of money for more airstrikes i tend to say that he was killed because many empty seat members were his former subordinates others believe could after you is to blame for the hatred many libyans had for him in the first place you look on to watch the dot com cast your vote. sources say that egypt's former leader hosni

mubarak is fighting for his life 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 of former libyan leader. mubarak was ousted from power in february during the arab spring after thirty years of rule middle east correspondent paula. 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 for me 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 him 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 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 mubarak

has been since august now all of these same sources are telling me that there is an increased presence of security in front of the hospital that they started gathering there 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 cancer 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 the last pictures that has been seen of hosni mubarak was several weeks ago when he was wheeled into that courthouse he and two of his sons are being tried for corruption and certainly in those pictures was mubarak was looking very frail indeed. still to come for you in

the program here want to see holding their war. america's not destined to be want to share every equally balanced global powers america must lead to war and we report on why some forces in washington are. rieger to bring back the days of the cold war. a much heralded somebody in brussels has failed again to come up with a solution to the spiraling debt crisis but it has succeeded in creating a new divisions among leaders the growing split six put it to the surface where no 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 that 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 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 us cross over here. under mr your hand the van overtveldt editor in chief of two of belgium's leading business magazines a trends magazine and that magazine i thank you for joining us today so 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. yes indeed that's 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 private moment all those first secondly the need to recapitalize banks to detune of one hundred in eight billion euros and thirdly the increase of the firepower of the stabilization fund a year business by an amount of moralists a thousand billion euros now on all of these three counts it's quite easy to 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 year shekhar 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 recently. that between cameron and 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 on the lines 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 dramani and france being the two most important ones and now france as if anybody knows. on the verge of losing its true pull a rating now if that happens that means of

a medically 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 his triple a jeopardizes his chances for a second term on the other hand if he does what is necessary to keep the aaa rating rating it will 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 vicious remark you were made with two words mr cameron has a lot to do with his own nervousness about this own situation in france so these are political aspirations being sidelined effectively in one way or the other when it comes to fraud its 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 outs now and greece is also now asking bankers to forgive up to

fifty percent of its debt are saying otherwise if it is a total collapse but for banks it is somewhat of a cash cow fed with the e.u. bailouts just how willing will they be to help. well as you probably know the report the troika being the european commission do. central bank in the international monetary fund just made highly confidential report that was leaked out in some of the western european newspapers arguing that 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 there 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 save greece from the down fall when when you when you mention the source of 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 e.u. 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 and then there should be some form of valuing the currency what does that mean 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 is contracting by eight percent or 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 the degree government makes in terms of reducing expenditure or increasing taxation backfires because it worsens the depression and the 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 to we're investigate this further develop editor in chief of two of belgium's leading magazines 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 so you're not going 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 and sometimes one wonders from sovereignty we still show was

european history is a place to put this. is that britain in the same way that we've been very sensibly stayed out of membership of the euro itself i hope that we continue to be skeptical about off earth revolved but he. are to four fifteen pm on monday here in moscow a russian american ties have improved greatly since barack obama took power at least that's washington's official rhetoric but they're also political groups in the u.s. that are pushing for aggressive moves are not only towards russia r.t. he's got a chicken now finds out what's stirring the hawk's nest. 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 wooed 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 focused on allegations that russia masterminded last year's explosion near the u.s. embassy in georgia accusations he took from georgian investigators of course as it turns out the lobby that approached 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 h. two former defense secretary ronald rumsfeld actively root for the war in iraq then he was an h. to senator john mccain well known for his hawkish foreign policy views senator mccain never concealed his desire to see russian leaders over throat and not just

russia dictators all over the world including bashar assad maybe even mr putin. and maybe some chinese maybe all of them maybe a little bit more nervous because clearly the people of libya rose up we assisted them this group of people. has a large number of institutions that they work through they have a large number of think tanks they have law firms they have magazines they have newspapers to push this idea of the supremacy of the united states washington has never been short of war mongers the most visible one these days is the republican presidential candidate mitt romney he has already delivered. tough words to the likes of you rand pakistan and china he also called for 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 from these pitching himself as the

candidate of the military industrial complex hoping that they 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 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 one show where tensions are being ramped up the same people are doing a lot of fear mongering against countries like china iran and the list this pretty long actually while experts agree the only side that could possibly benefit from a potential confrontation is america's military machine definitely not the people in those countries involved i'm going to check our reporting from washington our team twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow and any business time in a few moments but for now around one hundred thirty activists of the occupy chicago movement have been arrested for camping out in a city park after closing time. they're 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 meantime a new york dozens of people were arrested in

a police crackdown on activists just days ago our correspondent lucy cutting off is keeping a close eye on the protests get the latest on the twitter feed as you can see right here also it's three thirty pm g.m.t. here. and it's crossed all 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. the things that matter involved involve getting getting out with your body and being there and being present ok. you want to be there before we go to break. me yet firstly hundreds of thousands of people are in

the streets putting their bodies in the line secondly you know i did this. revolutionary what we could understand is that these protests are not just physical process they're symbolic process they're about changing minds and changing ideas and some people are able to engage you know better to not watching these videos we're not just you know this is not just about reading twitter we have videos taken from underneath in 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 planned website is being forced to temporarily suspend operations of this according to its founder julian assange it will instead concentrate on an aggressive fund raising campaign to fight a 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 but also contain revelations about the afghan and iraqi campaigns a songe 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 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 kinds of step one hundred sixteen of those taking place above ground including the testing of the first soviet 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 due 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 or. the one and a half million people were affected by the nuclear tests the combined power of all the explosions at the semi site was equivalent to around two and a half thousand hiroshima is the some people are tins 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 well 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 sure but as i was going to the post office a powerful stream blasted right in front of me like white lightning i was completely shaken and some of the others were not talk for 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 peter all over r.t. kazakstan i don't have to have you with us here on this monday on our two year time offer the world of business with dmitri. 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 period ration of assets moody's 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 bank capital to five point seven million dollars starting from next year also wants to bring the benchmark to nine and a half million dollars by twenty fifteen 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. police kelly two were decreasing economy activity around russia

a lot of companies currently are facing difficulties with attract funding short tallman a lot. more russian banks so in ability. financial so. short and long term the credits here will sooner or later become a big problem for a real sect for russian companies. well let's move to the markets so well prices are heading up of the european leaders flag progress on a plan to resolve the single currency the debt crisis light sweet is currently trading just below eighty eight dollars per barrel brant is at one hundred ten dollars european stocks are trading in the black bag shares are posting particularly strong gains in london footsie is up point three percent with mine and for gas to up six and a half percent bank barclays is up two percent in frankfurt deutsche bank agee is one point four percent higher. this is the picture in russia we're seeing two hours

before the close they continue their rally on europe steel the us years is gaining two percent now my six one point three zero what's moving the my six world majors are on the rise and higher crude was near there for one point seven percent higher north nickel is also up as nickel production the third quarter increased twenty three percent compared to the second quarter and retailer seven continents adding almost ten percent after releasing an impressive boost in first off their profits. russia's biggest silver producer polly metal was seeking to raise around eight hundred billion dollars at 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 as had its main listing in russia but decided to change to get better access to foreign investors the hopes. to join the list of top one hundred companies on the fourth c.e.o. soon as deceptive this year. so for now we will be back at around fifty five

minutes time and update.

back you without your live from moscow your head. lines of no euphoria mixed with uncertainty libya enters the post gadhafi era promising to impose sharia law until

the democracy on the ruins of a once prosperous nation. suggested egypt's former leader hosni mubarak suffered a heart attack after seeing the gruesome images of colonel gadhafi is dead and is now in a critical condition. also the e.u. summit in brussels it degenerates into petty. tension over the debt crisis boils over the british government faces a revolt by anti european m.p.'s who want out of the you. do stay with us we hear more about the british take on the european crisis that's from the u.k. conservative party m.p. patrick mercer our special interview is now. patrick is a member of parliament for the conservative party and a former shadow minister for homeland.