on colonel gadhafi is a command and control bunker in his hometown of sears this week archivist john reese says the self interest may be behind the driving force to be the driving force behind excuse me alliances intervention. nobody's going to shed any tears for that brutal dictatorship but i imagine that what most people in libya don't want is to swap the rule of prepare free for that of the western powers ability and see will come to power as the proxy use of the western powers and the western powers don't do this without asking for a payback and they will be asking for a payback if i were a libyan and i were listening to what nato said earlier that they want to assist the transition i mean heaven knows what a military alliance supposedly assisting the transition to democracy is all about i would take those remarks as more threat but a promise that is a direct threat that they will use their military and economic weight to gain what they want out of a new government in libya the only chance of unity for the t.n.c. is that they do what most libyans i believe want them to do and that is t

for more analysis of the rest are now joined by john reese is a political activist live in london thanks very much indeed for being with us here on our team david cameron is announcing zero tolerance stance towards protesters something picked up from a nurse an experience health act if you think such measures will be in the u.k. . i think they'll be zero effective this isn't something that can simply be. streets with water cannon and plastic bullets it isn't something that can be and it isn't something that will be going posing took only in prison sentences we've seen one. for you jailed for six months for stealing a one pound fifty bottle of water and i live in hackney i live right next look which was the main cycle. this week but i can tell you that if that happens you can come back every so in a month or two months or six months or your absolutely nothing will have changed and there paul fundamental cause a disturbance is this we would also zero zero zero tolerance policy adopted by the police in future unrest would that actually cause further problems between police officers and the

ahead but self interest may be the driving force behind the london's promises that's according to john reese the stop the war coalition got rid of gadhafi and nobody going to shed any tears for that brutal dictatorship but i imagine that what most people in libya don't want is to swap the rule of gadhafi for that of the western powers and part of the problem here is of course the way in which he has fallen today has been the single biggest day of nato air operations in the entire history of this intervention so it's quite clear. he will come to power as the proxy use of the western powers and the western powers don't do this without asking for a payback and they will be asking for a payback if i were a libyan and i were listening to david cameron's speech or if i had listened to what nato said earlier that they want to assist the transition i mean heaven knows what a military alliance supposedly assisting a transition to democracy is all about i would take those remarks as more of a threat than a promise that is a direct threat by david cameron that they will use their military and economic

hundred people now charged with taking part in britain's worst and rest in decades political activist john reese says it won't be long before more disorder erupts as a arrests alone can't solve the deeper fundamental causes. this isn't something that can simply be blackened off the streets or it was. plastic bullets it isn't something that can be done and it isn't something that will be going posing in prison sentences we've seen one. for you jailed for six months for stealing a one pound the bottle of water in the united kingdom that it was there is greater inequality any one for the last two hundred years that he's an example back in the plays of the slave trade to find such a disparity between the rich and the poor who want to you expect if you show people repeatedly the most expensive consumer goods tell them that their sell worth the life but their respect from other people will be judged by the degree to which they can obtain these goods and then deny them the ability to get them to use their because the wages also low or because there are no jobs at all well because of endemic politics lo

sort of these are the ones that are the addressed before we go on to the question of the police john reese we'll leave it there thanks very much for your thoughts thanks for joining us live there in london john. another nation locked into street protest is syria find out what actions the government there appears ready to take to find a compromise and stop the once a bloodshed. a list of europe to conscript shorter as countries spurred by the contagion sweeping the economic bloc think twice over their aspirations to join the club. their stories still to come but first this week marked three years since georgia launched its attack on the small republic of self-assertive the five day war in which georgia try to regain control of its old territories claimed hundreds of innocent lives but moral services are being held across the republic with the biggest and self-assertive couples to involve hundreds of people going to large candles and pray for those who died in the conflict releasing white balloons in their memory it is really a question over reports from the republic where the scars are stil

john reese there in london where news of the rebel advance into tripoli was greeted warmly by investors around the world sparking an immediate drop in oil prices and they say now the most important question is just how much stability this new government will bring lardy sarah ferguson has the latest for us sara joining us there in italy so what's the rebel takeover of tripoli done to the price of oil tell us more on that. but what we seeing really is a need jerk reaction in the oil markets to the events in tripoli we see in the oil prices as you say talking almost three dollars in festus thinking that there are oil production kids shortly now it's least foreign minister has confirmed that the italian oil company any has sent workers back into libya they've led the way really in sending their work is back there immediately we saw the stock prices rise again as we're saying on the hope that they'll be able to reestablish output from libya now what we've seen is the other big oil companies such is the b.p. have actually sat on the fence at the moment they're waiting for the exactly how thi

among your own people or you can be funded by the imperial powers but you can't do both right and john reese from the stop the war coalition live in london many thanks indeed thank you. members of the european union have once again called on cathy to relinquish power but euphoria over the ongoing assault on tripoli is fading replaced by concern that the new government may not have the or thorough he needed to bring and maintain peace artie's i bet it is following the reaction from london. an address the press he said it's clear the end is in sight now and get that food regime is toppling around in those he stressed the need for a smooth rapid transfer to a new democratic leadership in the country that will be the national transitional council that really recognize from the just move leadership of libya they already have a diplomatic representation here in london. and he said the need for that is obviously so that the libyan people can be in charge of their own fate and that's the main goal he stressed however at the same time as all of that he did acknowledge that nato forces will remain in