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tonight on r t well no gadhafi is most prominent son saif al islam is reportedly ready to surrender to the war crimes court while the dead former leader's relatives want to see nato at the hague. spanks are ordered to shore up their defenses and could take a bigger hit over their exposure to the blogs flaky finances. and see summit tonight. and fresh clashes is the answer wall street protests spread police in oakland in california to take nearly one hundred activists and chased the rest off with tear gas and rubber bullets. welcome you're watching r t with me kevin oh it's now eleven pm here in moscow and our top story for you get their fees was problem son saif al islam could appear at
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the war crimes tribunal he's reportedly ready to surrender to the hague where he's wanted on charges of crimes against humanity he's been on the run since revolutionary forces took control of certain last week and is thought to be somewhere in the libya's southern border with me share and this comes as well it is of the slain libyan leader himself look to the hague to bring a war crimes lawsuit against nato over alliance troops deliberately striking gadhafi convoy which they say posed no threat to civilians and it was only allowed into libya by the u.n. solely to protect citizens makers perspired it's only a decision to do ended slid be a mission by the end of this month after calls for the interim government to stay on it is not is missing now discovered gadhafi is death isn't making the country any safer right now. one of the major concerns here are like weapons are fire arms that are simply in the hands of the population here and there are efforts from the empty seats trying to collect them. people to willingly disarm and bring their
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weapons back but so far it doesn't look like that idea is working out we went to one a collection center if you will 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 what that number means walking down one or two blocks here in the capital you can see maybe two times or three times more got amounts 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
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executions which is exactly what these from the rebels were fighting against another thing that they just stinks if you will of the prophecy of course is the way they could daffyd was killed and we saw the brutal gruesome footage that went viral the whole world watched including of course libyans here and although a lot of the things you're seeing are in the mass media as people just full of elation that gadhafi is dead that dead when you go out and speak to people and 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 wasn't of course very departing to 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 the death you know when you come here and actually start talking to them that however not the case in the. that's where
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you have some people very outspoken and happy about the way kentucky was killed especially the mass media and actually telling us that because it's out there with them to the great to many of the secrets of dealings with the west and this and their reporting was we heard in her report the true nature of gadhafi is relations with western leaders has led to some uncomfortable questions for some analysts since his son saif al islam who could blow the lid on the alleged murky deals if he does get to the hague well some of the details about it come to light they found documents on the floor of the british embassy in the abandoned british embassy in tripoli which 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 and i think we're so used to tony blair intervening form to help him get his dodgy ph d. degree from the london school of economics one. degree or kind he was paid to write so there's almost things that have gone on there so you thought gadhafi knows about
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but the thing is this the people who really want to kill gadhafi are the families the enemies see is simply the arab. tribal revenge to be documented terrible things to people in libya and now these families want revenge and that's simply their way of life their team brian independent journalist who agreed a bit earlier on there now these gruesome pictures of gadhafi as lynching were met with cheers and applause of america's mainstream media which was quick to herald his demise as the dawning of a new libya has got a future cannes been finding out whether dancing on his grave was justified. it started with cheers. the joy of killing the african leaders spread like wildfire in the u.s. it was just a trillion dollars to get saddam and a billion dollars to get gadhafi in libya says they're going to pay back the billion that we spent too so it's going to end up being sort of free for another so let's get in on the ground there's a lot of money to be made in the future in libya there's lot of all to be produced
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and no american soldier killed probably great opportunities ahead seems like the perfect and you were fearful of that one that's meant to be a lesson to others i think it's sense of an important message to other leaders in the region but i tell you that these are big gators they are not very original just like saddam hussein caught a little hole will mark a dot he was a bad guy although many of us would argue how bad he was for them considering what we don't even know the super bowl fearing women's rights but in the eye of the western 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. worth a few days the media seabird the bloody music. and laugh at similarities between
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his character in a ditch and out of saddam hussein all the cheering about his killing in the eye of the public effectively raises the bat paste after nato campaign no mention of libyan civilians killed in nato strikes not much talk about the destruction in the country caused by those strikes and the 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 the links but if it's presented as such a success doesn't become more tempting to try the same method somewhere else i'm kind of reporting from washington are today. in the past hour e.u. leaders have finished their emergency summit to try and wrestle a solution to the euro zone's debt plight seen by many as a last chance and it's the banks that are in line it seems to bear the brunt less scared updated from r.t. to your bushel our europe correspondent on the line from brussels now tell you leaving two years with a busy night what spain agreed bring us up to date. silvio berlusconi is revealing
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it's a nice letter of intent as it's called which pledges a lot of the things demanded by brussels for example to raise five billion euros from state assets and also to work cut back on job protection measures he's also pledging to work increase its least pension age to sixty seven it took the offered resignation by mr berlusconi to get the parliament and a new round of austerity measures in fact fist fights broke out in the parliament today as tensions rose over all of this is really been reported mr berlusconi will still quit in the new year in return for getting these measures through one italian politicians that they won't take any lectures from nicolas sarkozy of france which he says has the same aggregated it as rome itself now there's been contradicted also on what's been achieved today the polish leader said that there was a deal on allies ation in place but the prime minister of britain says there's only
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been good progress to create this well for which would support the banks if the greek economy goes under the exact sum by which the bailout fund is being increased won't be revealed still november all this thing at the moment is being increased by several times e.u. leaders here have generally been in a very bad mood angela merkel is not usually. he's been very downbeat nicolas sarkozy usually speaks to reporters as he arrives on the red carpet by the building he brushed past them today the greek prime minister did speak to the press he said that the greeks are making a superhuman effort. to make greece's economy voidable puts bookmakers have two to seven to quit the euro and that means that they think it's extremely probable or as the gambling industry puts it that greece will leave the single currency because don't usually get it wrong because some it is expected to run over time into the
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night the chancellor alistair darling says that they should lock themselves in the building the e.u. leaders here in the e.u. commission building until they get a comprehensive solution because otherwise it would be panic stations for the world stock markets which had another terrible day today or i think she really has a date. today we'll be following that story of course throughout the evening as more details come out there from brussels. well as well to dr marcus kerber he's a political economy professor in berlin he told me that germany's economic success over the past decade is no thanks to the euro. i have always held that germany sooner or later is going to wield the power to bring the continent to back to economic reason because we are in a phase of the euro agonizing and if certain concepts 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've kept out of the
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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 driven 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 germany has benefited from having people i have to tell you with i have please i have to cut you short there. must remind you of the fact that to go france is now delivering friday gates for almost nothing to greece and that at a moment where greece is factually in a situation of default what is scandalising was many many years ago greece has been
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receiving german tanks as an ally turkey to receive german things but then now in the period of deep crisis of greek rises france continues to deliver friday to greece thoughts of dr marcus kerber a political economy professor of speaking to me but. police in oakland california have been trying hard to scare off occupy wall street protesters that kept coming back to the city hall the activists wanted to reestablish a tent camp i was told down earlier ninety seven people were arrested is more important has been following developments. a 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 of police had fired tear gas flash grenades and rubber bullets at
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protesters hitting one man in the face with a rubber bullets and now this was all taking place and i'm holding as about three hundred fifty occupied activists did not want to be the campgrounds that they established weeks ago in front of city hall in oakland and the police in oakland california were removing them were trying to remove them and told them they cannot be there about three hundred fifty activists have 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 more different times now another man aside from the one that was hit in the face of the 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 hand police were also seen throwing flash grenades right into
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a group of people that were trying to help and injured woman clearly as you mentioned this is just the latest kind of incident clash between police officers and these activists a lot of police officers in new york city and throughout the country have been accused in criticized of using rebel 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 again throwing rocks and bottles. at police officers city officials say two police men were injured in the clash unfolded tuesday morning in 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
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a lot of support our full and of course as well extensively here on our web site r t v dot com and we also spoke to independent journalist just wolfson poem too he witnessed the police crackdown on protesters no clinton selfies as he puts much of the violence down to law enforcers of the no sense of community with those who demanding change i think that any time the people demonstrate that they have power we already the city government is fearful of that i mean we get in a democracy supposedly but when the people come together in rao these 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 the government is seeing it is 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 people as if they're their neighbors they really 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
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perspective that i hear when talking to police and so there really is in the feeling of community between the police and the residents it really does feel like a different kind of occupation of the police occupying that the city and we're seeing this in many cities around the bay or in the country where your wall street protests drawing from all walks of life people whose lives have been up ended by a recession of a financial fact cats i think in a signature could have met one of them. from riches to rags an american fairy tale gone sour eric smith walks by a luxurious manhattan hotel the chef here for six years he would talk posh meals for the rich and famous we did a banquet for five thousand. we did parties for the past three presidents there are some really high end stuff the recession changed everything today erika's jobless and broke after you laid off right now collecting unemployment which is.
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about three months as ingredients are changed to we work with a lot of high end. now it's lettuce and tomatoes for simple vegetable brought in a brooklyn soup kitchen where he volunteers as one of the cooks for occupy wall street protests aka the thirty eight year old detroit native dreams of starting his own business i talk o. truck but doesn't have the money you know it's been a struggle. and the yard has made me think about how other people are struggling even more than myself i realized that one in six americans are living in poverty i did or passed out has led eric to the occupy wall street protests calling for change i've seen it just go from bad to worse to even worse and that's really happening all over the country the food he and other volunteers cook at some kitchen chairs everybody so the revolution. gets delivered to the protesters who
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spend day and night camping out power to eric but also sleeps here at the end of the night when the last people here i'll go to the cops were told and find myself a sleeping bag right on the ground usually even though the chef is penniless in this revolution he says he's been waiting for it his entire life cooking for rich back cats in manhattan and trying to get their food out as fast as possible and make sure it's all perfect for the poor and the rich separated and it always felt. this way this is something that really did make a difference in the kitchen and even though life is tougher than ever before eric says he would not choose to be anywhere else but here i am relatively well off to flat out broke is not an exceptional biography to have in the west these days eric story is one of millions but he is one of only hundreds that have found their way here so far he says he sure can our hearts keep new york. all right we got
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a couple of years for the business now we just want to buy it's one of the big stories tonight the e.u. leaders hoping to reach that said debts plan there if they come out for to go there on the back in no meeting earlier on you may recall five minutes ago we heard from a german economist dr the marcus. now he was referring in an interview to a german news magazines revelations in the wake of a french plan to sell greece up to four new warships on credit all the time you may think its value did so rough. three hundred million euros to even though of course greece is struggling to keep its head above water on the massive debt it's already got that's what the meeting about tonight let's discuss the timing of all this let's go to greece economic analyst and international and its records of these are in greece are in athens tonight good to see it so i mean let's just talk about this sidelined while they're meeting while e.u. leaders in great conversations tonight including the french president wrangling over these details to save europe from a greek default french companies were here planning to sell greece warships and
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plunge it further into debt now how does that add up especially where you're sitting and all the hardships your country is going through right now. well to be frank i think that it's just a great default today i think it's much like the european issues including the us the ability of the eurozone itself and what they were doing with the white banking problem but returning to greece of course and the issue of defense it's not really something that greeks voted for or voted against and a stance has never really been as an offense it will prepare our we do engage in massive purchases and sometimes we don't get very much value for money. we still are a sovereign country we still have a territory in the syrian and we can always argue that if the germans paid us they will reparations rats or we can afford more frigates why do you think this
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information those come out to like now this is only you know what didn't come out from the government has actually come out from a rival german arms for the guests who may have been i don't know a bit paver they didn't get the deal but what is going on what we read into the timing of this now this really critical time for greece a more suspicious man may think we pay every something through it i don't know let's just assume for the moment it's just completely an accident we have a list i mean we know that many contracts really given out by the greek state usually go to western companies american german u.k. a fridge now there's always been competition between these major powers as to who would supply more and when it's only recently that greece is actually thought about buying arms from other people such as russia for example and many cases we can get much better deals elsewhere where they were always delicate diplomatic negotiations
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or issues behind the scenes of the contracts the right people around this particular case germans feel that paid bankrolling the largest slice of any. very should do most of the benefits you mentioned there i mean the argument i guess the recruits has a role in protecting the south eastern frontier but i'm going to put it to you this time do you really think there are people on the ground most people in athens that are suffering so much now with this serviceable debt consider that this purchase because this is a story of focusing on now that this was a good way to spend money direct more debt again. well again we're not actually spending that money it's actually have to pay like at some point i guess we trade finance a little bit anything else that may be americans that trade finance from the chinese you know if you ask most greeks average grades on the street should we be our borders or should we just give away half of your genes so you keep i'm sure that it
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will be the former would be lancy of course we should protect our borders no one not entirely sure that the austerity recipe and the meat for national defense are entirely interlinked and i think austerity is a dead end street but i also think we have a judaism patients and protect their selves and let me go further with that argument because there is plenty of international priests and treaties that will suggest that any country has a right not only to defend itself but to protect its people if there is a conflict between that sue we must protect itself and its people and the going gets are not i'm not i'm not a military expert not pretending to be but. you know it's also a time to be looking spending a time to be cutting class economy cutting corners wherever possible i'm reading here that greece is the poorest nato member yet it's got it franking six by spending what it comes to defending itself michel is time to scale back
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a bit isn't it. it's not really a question of whether we want to scale back its whether we can scale back their reason for it and it's a persistent threat of militarism and expansionism circle and it's actually more than just moment. the new doctrine from syracuse that they want to express moderate islam throughout the region they're usin something that greeks turn and that's something the greeks have to deal with it is a defensive posture that we take and let's remember we aren't bordered by switzerland or the u.k. also leader we have people around us and we live in quite a dangerous region. next practice always go get your viewpoint while you're on the program economic analyst and international lawyer if you are thank you for being on r.t. thank you. or rights to just after twenty five minutes past eleven moscow time looking
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ahead to crosstalk panel tonight focusing on whether moammar gadhafi is death was a brutal execution or to be expected is the last chapter in libya's vicious civil war so interesting program coming up shortly but not before for the business next. and welcome to the program first up european officials and banks were deadlocked over the issue of write downs banks will take on greek government debt a joint statement by european union leaders following a summit meeting in brussels produced no figure for bank recapitalization requirements but said there was broad agreement on requiring a quote significantly higher nine percent tier one capital ratio now let's take a look at how the knot kits are reacting to these leaks coming from the e.u. summit us markets are actually rallying the euro is bearing losses had stopped also reported china and other developing nations could be willing to invest in europe's
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bailout boeing shares are up almost five percent this after release better than expected course only profits over again. this is the closing picture for your obsession bourses of course clothes will have to wait for a reaction first day the foot sea was up half a percent of blacks down a half a percent trade was pretty thin drug maker company merck one of the top gauges in frankfurt which is up around seven percent of the company reported strong quarterly earnings and good results coming out in russia too pretty good autumn isn't coming on the r.t.s. and the my stocks more than two percent gains on both courses political your main movers on the my six was near gating of course an almost twenty six percent increase in net profit for the first nine months of the year energy holding its case of the rock first off their profit rose fifty one percent now one of the few stocks which was losing their day on wednesday it's m. video the company has failed to agree on the merger with its rival eldorado his
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doubles. you know quite brilliant today you know basically there is sort of positive noises coming out of the e.u. summit in addition to that oil prices still hanging above one hundred ten dollars which is quite strong and good signals from china that it may monetary policy which is encouraging and later the day the market or another boost from better than expected. goods orders coming out of the us. time wednesday was the red letter day for scientists and business men working with nanotechnology in russia hosting the for financial reform drive to modernize the economy make it less dependent on natural resources is. going to cost. any image any tax can be printed on water and just a matter of seconds and this is just one example out of
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a thousand seer russia of course is not exactly known for it's a national industry that's what these people here are now trying to change it's crucial for russia to diversify its economy and find other ways to make money especially when the risks are growing to global energy demand and that's why the government created a matter if you corporation now no i want this company is trying to do is develop the industry through cowen best man and projects with significant economic times or social benefit so far they've approved financing of over one hundred projects worth around eighteen a billion dollars and so therefore so they're looking at sue get more both so when it comes. in the past four years there's 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 we're all
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about money well of course today is what everyone's been saying is that not all technology is a great way for russia to achieve the more nice nation of its economy bring innovation and secure cash in the long term that's all we have for you this headlines are next.

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