the british government faces a revolt by anti european m.p.'s who want to power to the troubled e.u. as a summit in brussels the generates and petty spats over the union's debt crisis. libya's new rulers order an investigation into colonel gadhafi his death and promise to introduce islamic law and build a democracy in the ruins of a once prosperous nation. and the clogged wiki leaks suspends its whistle blowing all of american financial institutions refusing to accept the nation's right credit cards its founder vows to fight the financial blockade our top stories this hour. international news and comment live from moscow this is r.t. within twenty four hours a day the british parliament is preparing to vote on whether to hold a national referendum on its continued membership of the european union the debate

was forced off the more than one hundred thousand people signed a petition demanding a say in votes won't be binding but prime minister david cameron is a staunch supporter of the e.u. and forces a rebellion in his own party some sixty conservative m.p.'s are defying government orders and will support the idea cameron has urged the dissenting tories to reconsider saying this is a delicate time for the e.u. but jungle once a member of the folks at the u.k. out of you got caught up u.k. organization told me earlier that britain never signed up for what the e.u. has become. a faction is a hundred thousand people started petition that was david cameron's idea in fact there's been almost half a million people have signed petitions it was cameron's idea if enough people signed a petition they debate in parliament that's what's happening today although what has happened is all three political leaders of the three main political parties have effectively colluded there telling their m.p.'s which way they have to vote so tonight we go i just. still stinging attack on democracy in the home the mother of

all parliaments where these m.p.'s are not vote children their conscience or with their constituents opinions they're voting of the way their leaders tell them to because if they don't they'll get the sack there's a disconnect between the political elite in our great country and the people we've got mash three national papers now calling for a referendum every paper today is condemned david cameron for using a three line whip. he's a beauty marcus see today he would win tonight he will win this battle he's going to lose the war people are not happy in this country no one signed up on fifty seven but in the age of fifty four has not a vote on this and certainly my dad when he voted for a common market he didn't vote for the united states of europe that's what british people are upset about the political elites in westminster might try and stop was but eventually we will get our referendum and we will get out of the let me turn to you it's not our problem to sort out the problems in greece and tell me why we

should work for the aged seventy two or seventy three to pay for staff ross who lives in downtown athens to retire at fifty we shouldn't we're not going to it's the end this you're a state is collapsing as we speak. don't call me a little earlier nigel for our jamie p. from the u.k. independence party believes that far from being a uniting force the e.u. is quickly becoming a catalyst for conflict between nations. i want to europe where we cooperate together work together and sign agreements together not a europe where we hand over the ability to make those decisions to a group of other elected bureaucrats and on the argument of peace which now the e.u. supporters of for them back on because all their other arguments frankly have failed look what kept the peace in europe after ninety forty five was not the e.u. but didn't come along for many many what kept the peace was made an example of

states cooperate with the other and i would also argue the fact that we had a nuclear deterrent and history shows you that if you take away from people their democracy their ability to govern themselves if you corral them together into new states without their consent half of it leaving the peace the question now in a deep recession and without employment of a seventeen year high is not can we afford to leave be you it's can we afford to stay the whole eurozone project is that what it's done far from bringing people closer together it's pushed people further apart not just for sarkozy being rude to cameron we now have the greeks abusing the germans they now burnie you flags in athens openly with swastikas drawn on them and we have the germans slagging off the greeks as being lazy and useless and the irony of this project is part of us all becoming friends together in this new european house actually we're beginning to argue and becca in the most extraordinary way you can all take twenty seven

different countries with twenty one different languages all with their own different histories and different forms of government you cannot take them and force them into one unitary form of government without first getting their approval that approval has never been given and the european project actually is dying as we look at it now which may take many years just as the soviet union did but it's dying as we look at it because right across europe the voters are saying we don't want this model we rejected. coming up later in the program sick reports the health of egypt's former leader hosni mubarak shrouded in mystery sources suggest a heart attack has left him in critical condition but his lawyer denies those claims. and. more in that shortly but first libya's new leaders of ordered an investigation into the death of former leader moammar gadhafi following mounting international pressure this is libyans erupted in celebration of to be announcement their country had been completely liberated but there are plenty of questions over

the class to what they now call freedom parties and he has this report. certainly people celebrating across the country as the official so-called liberation was announced on sunday celebrations very windy here in the capital tripoli and very few people saying we go out now as the what they want now from the end to see whatever comes in right now the organization from the scene 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 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 mean with the in the end to see another officials these were

the rebels again this fight for freedom in benghazi earlier this year that there will be a power struggle effect between them and most of those groups from 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 from expectancy child mortality rates there were great social benefits we see here the in 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 we're going to rush on from our lives at least here in the capital not sure it's much much worse i know there are 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 jaffe more oil was but this is. one of the problems that people will be facing and then in terms of the actual political situation like i said all options promise eight months but that of course is not for sure and we just had this announcement from the head of the emphasis think that the weight easy little life in the country because towards real want this is something that experts were afraid of that they were advising the prime street without that happy is going to take a much more hard line islamic direction. and he said no way there remember you can keep track of and he said in the libyan capital just by taking a look at her twitter feed and some of her latest post she's tweeted pictures of residential areas in tripoli shattered by a nato bombardment we're also came to know your opinion on our top story today and some of the websites that is where we're asking what is the ultimate reason behind

it that these deaths were looking at the results on screen at the moment the vast majority believe gadhafi was because he could have exposed a dirty dealings in libya by western governments and corporations troll percent think that nato just ran out of money for more aerial strikes the same number for the contract is to blame for many libyans for him and others say he was killed because many m.t.c. members were his former subordinates those are a few suggestions few of his good to hear from me talk of. human rights watch is accuse revolutionary forces in libya of considering themselves above the law the organization says it has discovered the bodies of more than fifty could have been loyalists in sirte thought to be revenge killings by m.t.c. finds its political blogger told me earlier that the interim government is not the best alternative to the gadhafi regime. people have way too much faith in the n t c which is quite obviously not in control of this situation on the ground in

libya at the moment and in fact you can see the tension between the n.t. see command and some of the more islamist led groups on the ground and in fact if you see some of the fighters on the ground they have the characteristics of islamist fighters that have a long kind of history or from afghanistan on wards so this illusion and identity has full control on the ground is not actually correct and i would say that the events that we are seeing them could be personal event bad as could be their normal run of wars but maybe another party in libya could have presented their evolution of the earth liberation of that's the village of them a spacious for change better day and then down in d.c. that still has a lot of former gadhafi associates and cronies within it so that's really the nub of the problem speculation surrounds the health of egypt's former leader hosni mubarak the reports that he's in hospital fighting for life after suffering a heart attack but his lawyer denies those claims that his middle east. has the

details. the official word from the hospital that is looking after the former egyptian president hosni mubarak is that he is suffering from heart problems that there has been an increase in his blood pressure but nothing more serious than that now since august the international medical center has both looks awesome about north that kept him there as prisoner them official word is that despite rumors he has not been moved into intensive care and i mention rumors because there are certainly a lot of women circulating in the privately owned it's actually newspaper al to here has quoted hospital staff who say that his heart stopped beating for a few seconds this coincided with a grimace we heard that he was clinically did ask you speaking to our sources on the ground in cairo and they say that since late last night there is a lot of movement in front of the hospital overheard hospital staff talking amongst themselves that he has been moved into intensive care and that the situation or not is very very critical as you can well imagine it's very difficult to determine

right now what is the real situation in terms of mubarak's health we were also hearing reports that it was when he saw pictures on television in terms of what happened to his friend when michael duffy in libya it got such a shock almost pictures that that triggered this latest reaction the former egyptian president has been plagued by poor health for many years in june this year his lawyer said that he had stomach cancer and that it was now spreading i spoke to the way a short time ago he now says that mubarak's health is fine but certainly we know that he has high blood pressure based been reports of hypertension there was a report of a heart attack earlier this year so the state of mubarak's health will continue to be a hot issue for some time to come. well still to come in the program this hour in r.t. hawking their wars. america is not destined to be one of several equally balanced global powers america must lead the world america must

lead the world while we report on why some forces in washington are eager to bring back the days of the cold war. but first the internet whistleblower wiki leaks is suspending operations to focus on raising money instead its founder julian assange said the financial blockade imposed by american financial institutions is cut off most of the websites funding these are the bennett was at this news conference and sounds gave in london. in order to enjoy you to survive all we can was to temporarily suspend all publishing operations in order to direct all. resources into fighting the war and raising money because of this financial blockade doing asunder a field in that press conference that ninety five percent of their fund raising has dried up since that locate came into force early december to stop funds getting through stop the stop donations and they've been running on cash reserves in the

just round of time really until that ran out and the companies involved for political like visa and master card pay pal bank of america and they're all financial got it all happened about a week or so after what's being referred to as cable gate went from wiki leaks released all those. secret cables from u.s. embassies and the magic service julian signs that he's calling this as a u.s. base concerted political attack and it's not from the government though they have actually seen this to be without any lawful grounds as has the u.n. high commissioner for human rights he says he's condemned the blockade instead science says it's being carried out by politicized u.s. financial companies now they have actually pursued legal action they've opened. action in a number of countries where they have publication deals iceland denmark the u.k. the e.u. us australia as well they've also lodged a complaint with the european commission a decision on that is june in november as to whether visa has broken any rules here

but until that is really nothing they can do because they've simply run out of money. losing leaks to an unlawful financial blockade would be a blow to freedom of speech but others will carry on the cause well that's the view of the long he's the president of the national union of journalists in britain. it's obviously been a very murky affair because there were of the very beginning of the situation questions about what attention the members of the u.s. government had suggested or asked companies like amazon which was the first to take action against wiki leaks because they were hosting the site and what they may have been asked by individuals within the u.s. government obviously this is these acts have been taken outside of any legal process i don't cite any international political agreements yet they seem to have the ability to shut down a website that some governments find troubling. it's it's very unclear exactly what

the motivations what the power behind them and it is it's it's deeply unsettling it would be a loss to the media and a loss to freedom of speech if it disappeared but i don't think this will be the end of it we did see one of the first attempts were made to shut it down and the mirror sites appeared all over the world because the information simply wants to come out so i'd be hopeful that actually if unfortunately wiki leaks was forced to close down that we would see other sides seeking to do the same kind of thing and getting around the restrictions of wiki leaks facing. russian american ties and improved greatly since barack obama took power at least that's washington's official rhetoric but there are also political groups in the u.s. that are pushing for aggressive moves and not only towards russia what he's going to find out what is staring the hawk's nest. the cold war is long over but not in the minds of some influential american lobbies and politicians because so long magazine has looked into the expense records of one lobby group in washington and review the years it has courted groom is to adopt distinct anti

russian standpoints i ranging interviews with them and paying for their trips and dinners one of those who ordered me wooed by the lobby called orient strategy isn't your only named allie leak from the washington times he wrote as 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 lee is officially contracted by the georgian government we try to get in touch with mr lake he never responded put analysts say it's not so much the georgians agendas that a lobby like orian strategies is pushing forward rather that of washington hawks the head of orient was an each to former defense secretary ronald one still actively root for the word a new iraq then he was an h. two senator john mccain well known for his hawkish foreign policy views senator

mccain never concealed his desire to see russian leaders over the throat and not just dictators all over the world including bashar assad maybe even mr putin. 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 are 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 deliver tough words to the likes of ukraine pakistan and trying to be also called 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 around 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 warhawks some of the biggest corporations in 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 influence groups in washington that call for the end of the reset with russia but it's not just one here where 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. one hundred thirty activists of the occupy chicago movement have been arrested for camping out in the city park after closing time holding a protest and the occupy wall street demonstrations against corporate greed and. of the rich in government the movement has existed for over a month now and spread across five continents but in new york thousands of people were arrested in a police crackdown on activists just days ago buckley a justice activist in new york told me earlier that he thinks the movement is just

in its body stage with the capability of developing into something significant. that i will is just beginning is the station quite to get people involved and active lot of people have ideas and they don't have places to go with that but if they want to really continue and get to places i've had to go different tactics and become much more organized and strategic about what they do at this point it's going to steps and this is a lot of people really angry or frustrated but without a lot of past experience and if you really want to begin to challenge the system. the major issues and fundamental issues that we're talking about ninety ninety one percent that didn't happen overnight has been a structural inequality that's happened throughout the entire history of known civilization. now let's update you on some other international headlines this tanks and artillery have allegedly been funded buildings in vehicles in syria central province of homes watching amateur footage released by an anti government group

which alleges this is the result of the shelling is claimed cars and houses were targeted randomly homs has been the dissent since the uprising against president assad's regime in march. turkish tanks and armored vehicles have moved into northern iraq in the heading to a kurdish militant camp situated near the city of zarqa according to news agency reuters this follows a string of cross border operations launched after kurdistan workers party fighters killed twenty four turkish soldiers last week on saturday turkish troops killed around fifty kurdish rebels in a valley near the iraqi border using artillery and air strikes. i think serbs in kosovo have rejected demands from serbian president boris tell it to remove roadblocks they have set up a disputed border crossings talent show five hour long talks with local leaders but failed to persuade them all the crisis began in july after a concert when police and customs officers seized two checkpoints with the help of e.u. forces in response local serbs blocked the roads leading to the crossing this. put

up with for the moment less than ten minutes from now tempers will be flaring on our debate program crosstalk before that let's check out the world of business with the. closer union warm welcome to the program moody's has cut its forecast for russia's banking system from stable to negative but in the course of as found out what's putting the country's lenders under pressure. this is pretty much a domino effect though what is going on that globally these says that grim economic outlook and internationally and the high volatility of financial markets will weaken the operating environments in russia and have and it's the fact that the banking sector and what they mean by that is over duction in liquidity in the system as well as growth rates of lending and the g.d.p.

the estimate for two thousand and twelve is now two point eight percent which is a drop of one percent from previous forecasts and more and not the big factor it is of course russia's economic growth the pending a mainly on oil prices and the say that due to increasing risks to global energy demand there is now more pressure than ever and while moody's also says a negative effect will be felt on asset quality and credit growth but some of the seer believe that europe will solve this problem soon which will spur growth back onto world markets and they also point out that the russian a banking sector is applied to much from european debt issues and is in the for a good position financially they also say that russian banks have ample pushing it see to attract liquidity and maintain financial stability with internal and external resources while i know the factor of i can in fact all these opinions it

is a wednesday's meeting and euro coin leaders will be looking for a plan to solve that crisis and that is the growth so it's safe to say that this is a not the last time the purse the ball gazing will be over. and go from relations capital warns the impact from moody's outlook reassessment could be significant if it is followed by individual weight. right now the market has already priced in the negative for the system so. buy more this is not going to. share prices for that matter however if from what is false are these reasons explains the real bents this is actually more likely to have an impact on one deals but even that once again i think is already priced in our banks are less dependent on the european situation and there co-exist just tested our banks we don't expect all these developments here but there is a capital base and if everything goes in line is our base case then we don't think

capital is going to be affected well and europe when you're in banks that's a question mark at the moment. well let's take a look at the markets this hour top the german opposition lawmakers say the e.u. bailout plan will be leveraged up to one point four trillion dollars now in london votes again one percent driven by mining and financial stocks come to for gas is up seven half a cent and the bank a good part raises two point two percent higher. here in russia the markets continued their rally in optimism about europe's do you know r.t.s. game for you know how percent m i six two and a half the same as that which stops where the drivers of the growth on the my side while majors are on the rise on high approval or staff gaining more than four percent nor cynical as high as nickel production in the first quarter increased twenty three percent compared to the second and retailers some confidence that in almost twelve percent after releasing a person who's in first half match profits. so for now the headlines are next on

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