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crimes against humanity he's been on the run since revolutionary forces took control of circle last week and is thought to be somewhere in the libya's southern border with new jersey now this comes as relatives of the slain libyan leader look to the hague to bring a war crimes lawsuit against nato alliance troops to liberate the striking gadhafi convoy which they say posed no threat to civilians nato was only allowed into libya by the u.n. solely to protect citizens citizens will nato is the spodes early decision to end as well it's libya mission by the end of the month after calls from the interim government to stay on how does not isn't this a no i found gadhafi is death isn't making the country and the safer either. one of the major concerns here are light weapons fire arms that are massively in the hands of the population here there are efforts from the end to see to try to collect and get people to willingly disarm and bring their weapons back but so far it doesn't look like that idea is working out we went to one collection center if you will
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yesterday it covers an area of tripoli and for the entire day only about ten or twelve a k forty seven have had been returned just to give you an idea of what that number means walking down one or two blocks here in the capital you can see maybe two times or three times more that amount of automatic weapons being waved around but even more serious concern here in terms of security about weapons storage arsenals unguarded warehouses full of weapons what happens if those weapons get into the wrong hands already human rights watch has expressed grave concern about ground to air missiles that could essentially hit civilian aircraft if they get into the wrong hands of the security situation here very very sensitive not just recently some three hundred people were found murdered in sirte with their hands tied behind their back that is sparking accusations of political executions which is exactly what these former rebels were fighting against another. think that that
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just stinks if you will of hypocrisy of course is the way they could he was killed and we saw the brutal gruesome footage that went viral the whole world watched including of course libyans here and although i'll lot of the things you're seeing in the mass media is people just full of elation that gadhafi is dead that dead when you go out and speak to people and you push them a little bit you do find that there are a lot of people here that are doesn't change we expressed just just horrible feelings about the way he was killed not to mention the fact that he was of course buried forty two muslim tradition he was put on display for days and only after thousands of people came to see him was he finally buried so it's not exactly as it seems from afar what people feel about gadhafi we've come here and actually start talking to them that however not the case in the last where you have some people very outspoken unhappy about the way gadhafi was killed especially the mass media experts are telling us that's because gadhafi with him to the grave took many of
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his secrets of dealings with the west. well in this was talking about those gruesome images of gadhafi as lynching woman was chiz a polls in america's mainstream media which was quick to herald his demise is a dawning of a new libya has gone into cannes been finding out whether. it's justified. it started with cheers and. the joy of killing the african leaders spread like wildfire in the us media it was just a trillion dollars to get saddam and a billion dollars to get gadhafi and libya says they're going to pay back the billion that we spent to so it's going to end up being sort of free for free for nothing so let's get in on the ground there's a lot of money to be made in the future in libya there's a lot all to be produced no american soldier killed probably great opportunities ahead seems like the perfect new word favorable but one that's meant to be a lesson to others i think it sends of an important message to other leaders in the region but i tell you that these are big traders they are not very original just
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like saddam hussein caught amid a whole new market da he was a bad guy overall many libyans would argue how bad he was for them considering what they don't people don't want social welfare and women's rights but i think the i of the u.s. audience as presented by the media he was the ultimate evil it's a demonization every step of the way against gadhafi in the media today always one one man becomes a justification one leader of a country becomes a justification for destroying an entire country. for a few days the media savored the bloody medusa's. and laughed at similarities between his character in a ditch and out of saddam hussein all the cheering about could office killing in the eye of the public effectively a raises the bad taste up to nato campaign no mention of libyan civilians killed in nato strikes not much talk about the destruction in the country caused by those
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strikes and his killing is presented as a triumph a triumph which can create a perception that somehow it's perfectly ok to invade a country and help its leader be linked but if it's presented to such a success doesn't it become more tempting to try the same method somewhere else i'm going to check the reporting from washington are today. now i just let you know the next grills his guests or whether gadhafi is death was an execution or the logical outcome to libya's civil war. i just don't think there's any sign that there's a war crime involved here i don't think it's murder and i think it's it's part of an ugly process that we call war the murder was in the ambulance so far as i can tell by young libyans and you know maybe he should be he should be held responsible for that but i just don't think that the attack on the convoy
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a week ago or even the selfish never the big this was a drug american drone plane that attacked his convoy alongside a french one war plane and these two so really this was a joint french nato u.s. murder. the fact that he was technically alive but he got out as he scrambled out of his convoy hardly negates the role of the united states in his murder. and. so that's a next comment now too let's get some more insight on these latest developments in libya and talk to independent journalist steven brode steve a very good evening thanks for being with us international much appreciated no saif you very much for having me saying there is reportedly a very to hide themselves the international criminal court in the hague why do you
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think a person who vowed to fight until the end would do that what's his mindset right now do you think. i think he feels a safer and european prison than in libya i mean the enemies of him his clan his father simply want to kill him as many members especially as it can so he's heading to safety he thinks if this happens. while he was heading the save also. nato and the n t c don't want to see him make it to niger where their. forces might be able to regroup and then launch a guerrilla warfare inside libya. military move to ok well colonel gadhafi though of course was one of those crimes against humanity charges he failed to make it there alive is there a danger that the same fate could befall saif al islam. it is true. he is wanted by national criminal court and.
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whether he can get a libya lie that's that that's the that's the main question at the moment if he meets at the niger he might then find safety. let's just press this a bit further than who might ensure that he doesn't get to the hague do you think. if he doesn't get to the hague probably be dead but he has to make it or live. the d.n.a. means that his father and his clan simply want to kill him. that's been their goal all along and of course stephen you know small flaw is the arab is. saying he knows an awful lot like his father he's got a lot of information and they said there's an a and there are allegations that some western leaders like nicolas sarkozy explanation revolved deals with the gadhafi regime do you think the details of those allegations. may finally come to light if . does get to the hague and does take the stand. well some of the
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details have already come to light they found documents on the floor of the british embassy in the band the british embassy in tripoli it will close relations between britain and gadhafi before before the war started of course we're going to have a lot saif is going to have a lot information on that i think tony blair intervened form to help him get his dodgy ph d. degree from the london school of economics when that degree apparently was plagiarized so there's a lot of things that have gone on that so you feel gadhafi knows about but the thing is this the people who really want to kill gadhafi are the families the enemies in the sea is simply the heir of. law tribal revenge to gadhafi clan deterrable things to people in libya and now these families want revenge and that's simply their way of life there and of course the flip side of this is the gadhafi family wants nato in exile what they call the deliberate killing of the form. will they get their day in court or is it just
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a symbolic gesture or do you think. it's really up in the air and no one really knows what's going to happen i mean who in whose hands or so you thought gadhafi now who has sermon if you get to niger he might just be protected don't forget gadhafi was giving millions and millions of dollars to the dictators of sub-saharan africa i'm sure that he has millions and millions of more stashed worldwide and paying them off than they will protect them and of course the other big question for libya now bearing in mind we saw the news of these bodies around three hundred gadhafi loyalists found in the town of sirte after apparently being executed by the sea fights is well known here would rights groups saying the extra judicial slaughters that are being carried out here begs the question is the n t c suitable to lead libya into democracy doesn't it. well the entity has a lot of problems on his hands but like they said the war in libya is primarily
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a tribal fight these massacres should have been expected each side had only a homo side of vision for the other side that's how they have that's what it is in trouble wars these massacres should have been expected but the m.t.c. has real problems with its hands there's many militias there they're armed to the teeth especially they've been help themselves the arms these abandon arsenals laws militias do not take orders from the n t c already there's been big arguments between the militias in tripoli over who gets argued by what part of the city because the better part of the city represent more loot for the militia now they're into a looting spree the main thing now is can the n.t. see disarm and establish control in libya and at the moment it's up in the air there's also a problem of what to do with the thousands of pro m.t.c. fighters who are wounded they're not in the proper medical care this is on a smaller note and also. probably won't get any medical care if they're not executed all right all right steve brown independent journalist things for your
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thoughts on the program. thank you very much for having me pleasure police in oakland california been trying hard to scare off occupy wall street protesters that kept coming back to the city all the activists want to establish a tent camp that was torn down earlier ninety seven people were arrested. following those developments for us. the scene that transpired on folding in oakland california is arguably the most violent scene we have seen thus far between us police officers and activist activists taking part in the occupy wall street movement police had fired tear gas flash grenades and rubber bullets at protesters having one man in the face with a rubber bullets and now this was all taking place and unfolding as about three hundred fifty occupy activists did not want to leave the camp grounds that they established weeks ago in front of city hall in oakland and the police in oakland
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california were removing them were trying to remove them and told them they could not be there about three hundred fifty activists had set up camp there five hundred riot police reportedly went to the scene and not when the clash took place it is being reported that police have fired off tear gas four different times now another man aside from the one that was hit in the face with a rubber bullet was caught in a cloud of tear gas this man was in a wheelchair and from what images show police police kept. lobbying canisters at him police were also seen throwing flash grenades right into a group of people that were trying to help and injured one man clearly as you mentioned this is just the latest kind of incident a clash between police officers and these activists a lot of police officers in new york city and throughout the country have been
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accused in criticized of using little force against u.s. citizens that are just trying to authorize and use their freedom of speech now police officials say they had no choice but to use these heavy handed tactics with the protesters they said some of the protesters began throwing rocks and bottles. at police officers city officials say two police men were injured in the clash that unfolded tuesday morning in oakland california but if it's going to be the last one many people highly doubt it because as artie's been reporting the occupy wall street movement has been growing louder has been growing bigger and has been gaining a lot of support my opponent a correspondent new york now we also spoke to a dependent journalist josh wolf who witnessed the police on protesters not with himself he says he puts much of the violence down to law enforcing no sense of community with those who are demanding change i think that anytime the people
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demonstrate that they have power the authorities the city government is fearful of that i mean we did in a democracy supposedly but when the people come together in rallies and demonstrations we always hear frequently see that men with a very strong arm of the law are and this is no exception this was a case where people had held his ground two weeks spreading all across the country and suddenly government is seeing it as a threat and government is stepping in to shut it down most of the officers in oakland don't live anywhere near the city they don't relate to the people as if they're their neighbors they relate to government this is some outside city that they are they're trying to keep the people from over taking the city is oftentimes the perspective that i hear when talking to police and so there really isn't a feeling of community between the police and the residents it really does feel like a different kind of occupation of the police occupying the city and we're seeing this in many cities around the bay or in the country josh wolf american british
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police a gunning for google demanding the web john removes a number of videos from you tube which they say are a security risk according to a report published by google the number of such requests has increased sharply over the past six months internet privacy and civil liberty campaigner jim killen told me that it's for the courts to decide what can or can't go online. an open court can look at the material the media can report what's going on and if material is asked to be removed at least that is done in a publicly accountable way the problem comes i think in the situation we see now here with google is that the police are advising google hears what material might be breaking the law and then google decides to censor that material without a court order you can sort of understand that on the one hand because you tube is a it's a platform and a site it's not a search engine but really it is working in exactly the same way it's
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a public platform for us all to use and it is wrong for google to start making those judgments without the appearance of a court. now the big story tonight of course of emergency summit of european leaders in brussels we're now hearing it's just finished now have been trying to put the final touches on how to pull euro zone out of its spiraling debt we should get more details on that shortly the news was start to feed them through the noise of the woods yet we hear will of course growing concern the bickering and rivalry between politicians is now getting in the way or to join a bushel as more on the summit that's underway. germany's parliament has agreed to approve the bailout fund basically as an insurance for loans taken out by nations it did happen despite insults being. thrown across the palm and even directed at. she was accused of loyalty to taxpayers to get this deal through germans of course can be angry when a deal because germany will have to pay the vast majority of any of any bailout
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that does come italy's parliament was also suspended for a short time today there's a new there's a fight breaking out between paul and terry and being forced by brussels to take out a new round of measures silvio berlusconi offered to resign government refused to raise the retirement age and it's me just sixty seven as france and germany are demanding he also reportedly told his cabinet there's no point in going to brussels today if he doesn't have a full mandate and it was the support of his cabinet and government well little things all looking good for resolution today senior diplomats negotiations on greek write downs all proceeding very slowly officials want banks to write off seventy five percent of their loans to greece or if you lent a million euro to athens you can forget about three quarters of that banks are obviously angry they say anything above forty percent right and europe's whole banking system is in trouble and it's really sheltering with the world for the whole says bolted but the e.u.
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today is also trying to raise the amount of. that the banks have to hold to avoid exactly the same crisis next time draw conclusions so no deal for recapitalization of banks in other words banks remain vulnerable in the event of a greek default take a major hit and many are in fact expected to collapse but also unconfirmed reports that china has agreed to invest in the european financial stability fund on the one hand it's in china's interest to prevent a collapse of the european union and the euro because that will have a negative knock on effect on the rest of the world economy in the all that these alone so if everything does go off ok then china will own that only its investment . bushnell europe correspondent kelly wallace spoke to dr marcus kerber is a political economy professor in berlin he told me that jerry's economic success of the past decade no thanks to the euro i have always hoped that germany sooner or later is going to wield the power to bring the continent to back to economic reason
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because we are in a phase of the euro agonizing and if certain concept is agonizing you should bring it quickly to an end the money we have spent on greece is lost money and we know this i have said this in spring two thousand and ten we should have kept greece out of the eurozone from the very beginning of the crisis to stop contagion eighty five percent of the germans disapprove the government's bailout policy and sooner or later that massive popular opposition has to be faced by the german parliament they have to pay tribute to that they cannot go on pursuing a policy which has turned out to be failing the economic success of germany is not at all due to the year of the people who say this have not read the figures i was going to say one of the ironies doctor is that the greek army currently feels almost as many german battle tanks are germany itself talking about the way that germany has benefited from having people like i have to tell you within i hear is
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a place i have to cut you short there. and i must remind you of the fact the france is now delivering friday gates for almost nothing to greece and that at a moment where greece is actually in a situation of default what is scandalising was many many years ago greece has been receiving german tanks as an ally turkey to receive german tanks but then now in the period of deep crisis of greek crisis front's continues to deliver frei gates to greece. dr curve was with me earlier on there now which is over the sport about thirty minutes time including crunch time for russia's top two in the women's tennis more details on that shortly after quote the ladies business this wednesday three trees here. good evening and welcome to business r t the markets in the u.s.
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have reversed into positive territory that's following a report that china and other developing nations may be willing to participate in the a bailout package program in europe we'll look at the markets in just a second with their with a complete a reaction or two to that news first of all it's a red letter day for scientists and businessmen working with nanotechnology in russia moscow was hosting the fourth nanotech form as part of the drive to modernize the economy and make it less dependent on natural resources resulting is million of course where has more. any image any tax can be printed on water and just a matter of seconds and this is just one example out of a dozen senior russian forces not exactly known for it's a nanotechnology industry but that's what these people here are in now trying to change it's crucial for russia to diversify its economy and find other ways to make money especially now when the risks are growing to global energy demand and that's
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why the government created a nano technology corporation called roosts nano and what this company is trying to do is develop the industry through cohen best man in politics with significant economic potential or social benefit so far they have approved the co-pilot's and all over one hundred projects worth around eighteen a billion dollars and so they of course of they're looking at see get more votes so when it comes to what they've actually achieved in the past four years there's a not much to show and that's what's a war and many and right now it's crunch time for them to prove what they can do with all of that money well of course today is that what everyone's been saying is that nanotechnology is a great way for russia to achieve a more in isolation of its economy bring innovation and a secure cash in the long term. all right let's move to the markets this hour we
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saw with commodities nothing much has changed that was coming off a twelve week high and that's because the market really this stupid was that crude stockpiles are climbing in the u.s. which is the world's biggest consumer off the commodity u.s. market so as are rallying this hour with the euro paring losses that's tough to report china another developing nations but with best in europe's bailout and this is a report coming from. right now a boeing shares are up almost five percent. after it released better than expected to three forfeits. this is the closing picture endurable have to see a reaction just to inform thursday the foot sea on wednesday again half a percent of attacks last pretty much the same amount of trade wars police and drug maker company merck is the top gave up on the diet shares up around seven percent pretty strong quarterly earnings and all's rosy in the russia the r.t.s.
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up two percent in my sights two point six zero of a trading role in this war also low as investors will push is to actually wait for the actual results of the summit cross near ft is gaining three and a half percent of the clothes after of course enormous twenty six percent increase in net profit first nine months of this year good results coming from an heiress kayo over didn't support the energy holding up just point one percent of the closed bucking the trend is electronics retailer and video his company failed to agree on a merger with its rival over water. and markets are you know quite buoyant today you know basically there's a sort of positive noises coming out of the e.u. summit in addition to that the oil price is stalled and above one hundred ten dollars which is quite strong and good signals from china that it may ease its monetary policy which is encouraging and later the day the market down another boost from better than expected durable goods orders coming out of the us
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and natural gas monopoly gas from may pay out record dividends this year the energy giant could pay up to six billion dollars twice the amount paid a year ago that would be a record high for gas from but it would make it first and i cash payout would move the company into the same league as russia's leader in dividend payments as t.n. k.b.p.s. . more business news around fifty five minutes time. but
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this. is just. a moron. early indications from leaders are that the summit has made some headway tonight but there is still intensive calls from within the u.k. to leave the struggling bloc next then let's look at that angle r.t. discusses the prospects of that happening in the future for the eurozone generally with the british conservative party m.p. douglas carr's well.
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