after libya in addition to libya what about syria what do you see happening next in regards to other countries reign syria you know as we move across the middle east and well you can use a compass which is whoever the u.s. corporate media and the u.s. government is demonising whoever they decided must go is then in the crosshairs of the next the stabilization so you think some of the mainstream media here in this country is calling the shots here but i think they're echoing the policy of the u.s. government they function as a propaganda arm there's a lot made about the u.s. has a free press but you see a complete uniformity of position once the state department in the white house established a position has a lot of reasons for that but i think what's coming next this is the united states is determined having if they do succeed in overthrowing khadafi and conquering libya bring it back into an american british french fear of influence that they will try to do the same in syria so i think we'll see an expanding level of intervention though i always say it's for humanitarian good it's a

has a contentious oil and gas exploration contract in libya which the u.k. government will be anxious to resume italian all giant e.-n. i. is the first to send back to libya and shares rose on their knees french towel and all three of the all three did well as investors hoped they'd soon be able to resume production in libya but it was price to the libyan people the great fear is that just as they did in iraq the creation of democracy which serves british interests interests or oil companies interests and does nothing for the people of libya nor am its quality. times correspondent. soon as western countries get libyan oil contracts they want boots on the ground to keep them secure. this is the cover story in this story from the beginning was our two pete responsibility to protect there was a basis for u.n. resolution one hundred seventy three there is a be there of the agreement between the u.s. and saudi arabia we get a resolution based on your fake arab league vault nine countries out of twenty two and you can do it you want with bahrain or in saudi arabia

base trinity college says a libya could face the same fate as afghanistan. more people are going to be killed as it is need to his but the fighting. and yes patient forces troops on the ground. providing technical assistance by. oh you know means of being in touch with warplanes for bombing i mean the reason being on the ground right through it. sections of the. tree so i fear this is going to set precedent already armories it being read oh you know r.p.g. been stolen from the armory is this going to be you know uk two thousand and three or even worse is this going to be after the fall of the one that. previous and for the people of afghanistan. well it may still be fighting in tripoli but the new self-proclaimed government is wasting little time in setting up its future cash flow european oil giants given the go ahead by rebel officials have already begun moving in with italian company and i which had a close ties to spearheading the return and it's obvious that laura and it reports this time it's a services won't come cheap. delivered as a promise but seen

he is obviously going to talk to me about libya and he says that there's a huge potential for libya to turn into another afghanistan i missed out on thank you for talking to r.t. today now explain to me what the facts play that's all comparable between libya and afghanistan there are a lot of similarities here between. afghanistan and we have been nato intervention military intervention it is through this intervention is not actually sending troops on the ground but the. try to say. like afghanistan the other point is you know. to a failed state like what happened in afghanistan nobody can predict what will happen after we know who would be removed from power because he cannot actually fight and he has a good backup abilities but the big question is you know what transitional council which is the presenting that he will be able first to clean pain. differences you know divisions. whether it is capable but that seems i can. excellent overview of the issues in libya at the moment but let's talk about the more specifically first of all where do you think gadhafi is at the moment what's he

libya is a major producer. tell us about the reaction to what is unfolding in libya. >> libyan oil goes mostly to the european markets, not directly to the american market. we understand that the market is globally connected. one always directly impacts the other. the story in libya is quite interesting. the regime change would lead to oil production that has been halted for couple of months to come back rather quickly. oil supply will go up. oil demand has been under pressure for quite awhile. that is due to the slowing economy and to fear of further slowing worldwide. that will put some downward pressure on oil prices. that is what we are expecting in the near term. that is good news for large parts of the industry and also for the consumer. >> after the incredible turbulence we have seen in weeks come by, tell us how things are shaping up in the new trading week. >> what an interesting day we have seen so far. we started the day with a huge uptick, the dow jones up 175 points, more than 1.5%. in the next cou

play in the future of libya. well i think you have to take the american president obama at his word in the statement he made and a very much of the statement that mr cameron made that that the that france. and the united states are working toward. they want a free democratic and inclusive libya. and i think they made it very plain that nato will not send troops on the ground. and. i take them at their word for the moment now there's a lot of suspicion that al qaeda could be part of these rebel groups can the rebels run their country or do you think there could be a power vacuum that could get filled by radical terrorist elements there's definitely a question of a power vacuum and for the reasons i was talking about earlier these people simply may not be willing to get along and it's just human nature there once the main battle was fought off then the schisms and the fractures begin to appear once the main danger has passed so we don't know what's going to happen they're going to have to struggle and stay together

and this is going to be the libya just as in other countries. tunisia and what is happening in egypt which is not. really the. speech that's not the issue but what i'm afraid of yes indeed and i'm. absolutely not. but i'm pretty sure the violence is going to break out to make some very interesting observations thanks very much indeed international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament that reduced thanks. when news of the rebel advance into tripoli was greeted warmly by investors around the world sparking an immediate drop in oil prices and i don't know the most important question is just how much stability the new government will bring an issue i was just talking about ortiz refer to as the latest. what we see really is a knee jerk reaction in the oil markets to the events in tripoli we've seen the oil prices he said talking almost three dollars in festus thinking that there are some hopes so oil production could shortly now it's least foreign minister has confirmed that the italian oil company any has sent workers back

presence in libya even the. resolution it's like trying to yes but keeping troops in the country means heavy costs drag on latest polls say most french people now oppose the military intervention this in p.c.'s for the bloodshed and the hefty price. to deal with it now is opposed by the govt i guess with his new memoir the war is far from over and this invasion is already costing much more than we get back the fears are growing that libya's new leaders are too divided to win the peace. points to the rebels murder last months of their military chief general yunis experts will widespread rebel looting and executions meet france's problems they have only just begun the new bushell altie paris. us government adviser on terrorism dr forever says gadhafi could still mount an offensive and the rebels also have serious political issues to deal with. the khadafi supporters the remnant of his army cannot at this point in time strategically because they are surrounded and isolated cannot revert back the entire conflict and

rebel say that they now control most of tripoli and have taken libya state t.v. channels off there and some reports suggest opposition fighters have been looting private houses to a good half his sons enough to be in rebel hands for the third having escaped house arrest opposition leaders say a large number of their fighters have been killed reports of heavy fighting around gadhafi compound but the whereabouts of the colonel are unknown nato insists it will continue combat air patrols until the government forces surrender from a night of chaos in the capital crowds have been seen in tripoli central square waving revolutionary flags. or journalistically missile whose founder and chairman of online newspaper the voltaire network is in the rixos hotel in tripoli and told me earlier that nato forces are doing everything to back up the rebels. leader also. from the u.s. so there is only from the listing side you know. the e.u. is really. only seem to try to keep it all those inside. so. to protect against the u.s. . surrounded by good rights. to prevent the entrance f

but i do think the west was very very much behind that in libya. i think you know the hague the international court is very much involved in what's going to happen when when they capture khadafi which i have no doubt they will they will be very much involved they've already said that they want his sons in their custody which is kind of interesting i find. going cut off he is captured in detained the international court out of the hague is sounds like it's going to step in so does that mean the people of libya are going to. decide his fate i don't really think so i think the international court's going to decide his fate. major nato members have already recognized libya's rebels as the country's legitimate government russia's envoy to the alliance says western forces were heavily involved in the rebels' advance to the capital. it. is not that nato forces were involved in the storming of tripoli and other libyan cities but that it's been done with the help of military instructors also in some places so-called soldiers of fortune were involved that is

and this is going to be libya just as in other countries. and what is happening in egypt which is not. really. that's not an issue but what i'm afraid. to do you know. but i'm pretty sure the violence is going to freak out and if you make some very interesting observations thanks very much indeed international consultant and former deputy speaker of the belgian parliament he produced thanks. when news of the rebel advance into tripoli was greeted warmly by investors around the world sparking an immediate drop in oil prices and i want to know the most important question is just how much the booty the new government will bring and if you're just talking about ortiz the latest what we thing really is a kneejerk reaction in the oil markets to the events. in the oil prices as you say took almost three dollars in first this thinking that there are some hopes the oil production could resume shortly now it's least foreign minister has confirmed that the company any has work is back in libya they've led the way really in sending their workers back th

or the money from libya. they may kill innocent people. >> reporter: when libya was implicated in a 1986 berlin nightclub bombing that killed two american servicemen, though, the u.s. struck back. >> this mad dog of the middle east has a goal of a world revolution. >> reporter: president reagan ordered air strikes on gadhafi's compound, reportedly killing his 15-month-old adopted daughter. two years later, in what many believe was gadhafi's response, a bomb blew up pan am 103 over lockerbie, scotland, killing 270 people. gadhafi denied ordering the bombing. >> translator: as i stated, we had nothing to do with it. >> reporter: but he later paid compensation to the families of the american victims and provided a libyan suspect, abdel baset al megrahi, and perhaps the image of what happened to another middle eastern strongman who hung on for too long, saddam hussein, had changed from ally to pariah, he shut down his nuclear research program, he granted western oil companies lucrative contracts, but he never los

has a contentious oil and gas exploration contract in libya which the u.k. government will be anxious for its resume italian oil giant easy n i. he is the first to send back to libya and it says rose on their knees french tape towel and all three is a way envy also did well as investors hoped they'd soon be able to resume production in libya but it was price to the libyan people the great fear is that just as they did in iraq the creation democracy which serves push interests the west's interests or oil companies interests and does nothing to keep it nor and its policy. well the seams of excitement and jubilant celebrations across libya recalled in caro's tahrir square in february when the high expectations after the revolution have given way to disillusionment and dismay what is going to look at how the latest events in libya have parallels in history. the kid there he regime is crumbling. the levy and rebels are cheering. the. same cheers and tears could be seen in egypt in february as the nation ousted their longtime leader hosni mubarak but six months on

was libya's. ambassador to india for they cut off the regime these are the real leaders of the national transitional council. they're certainly known have any history as democrats you know they've been associated with a good off the regime for a very long time furthermore i very much agreed with the comment in your report that. this this regime in the making is largely being installed by western powers if we go back to march of this year when the un adopted security council resolution one thousand and seventy three that was the no fly zones to protect civilians. that didn't by any stretch of the imagination give nato forces the authority to facilitate regime change in libya which is what we're now doing in the us it is in the lead they haven't recognized the national transitional council in july of this year so there are of course the great danger is either we have a continuing civil war or we have what the libyan people think of as a puppet american regime designed to protect access to the forty

libya is a tribal society. we take a look now at some of the challenges and that you could face in a post-gaddafi world. >> the council is likely to play a major role in the parse gaddafi area -- era. one of the most pressing tasks will be to prevent the outbreak. there are 140 tribes in libya. they can be divided into four groups. in the north are arabs. in the southeast, the nomadic group. in april, most of the larger tribes said that they no longer supported gaddafi. there are still groups that remain loyal to the libyan leader and say they are prepared to die for him. the question is, how can these gaddafi loyalists be integrated into inouye libya and how can they be kept from inflecting vengeance, especially after their heavy losses. he is calling for restraint. >> there is no longer any difference between libyans. the whole nation can rebuild the country in line with the constitution that makes no difference between sexes or tribes. >> some of the problems can be seen in the face of this man. the former r

libya needs to be reconstructed entirely. they are doing everything they can to undermine any sense of mission, one single vision. they must be allowed to express what it means to be libyan. that is the unification. therefore, we have to make sure there is an effort toward reconciliation and unification is reconciled -- on the other hand with the strong emphasis on the municipalities. >> i think we will have to end their. thank you very much. thank you, kareem, daniel, and peter. we are going to take a break for just a couple of minutes and we will of the second panel appeared promptly. thank you. >> an update on the situation in libya. the wife and two children of libyan leader gaddafi have crossed the border into out jerry. gaddafi's whereabouts are still unknown. more from the forum with the discussion looking at nato's role in libya. this is an hour and 10 minutes. >> welcome back. the atlantic council's international security program has always made trans-atlantic security matters of core focus of our activities here. we

to the the mage's events in libya. the french president has spoken to. jabril by telephone on monday and announced that he's invited him for talks on wednesday france said the navy is a potentially rich country but it needs support and. in fact paris is behaving as if it's all over now that the war is finished and as a pact of fact officially announced its military mission in libya is complete but experts who do express fears that the region is between the rebels themselves that they like a common enemy and give their feet if gadhafi has indeed now gone maybe there is further violence as those splits between the rebels are already exposed but in brussels the diplomats and analysts seem to be united states has really taken a back seat here soon opportunity to take a leading role of the e.u. says that much hard work is ahead and it is prepared to work with new leadership of libya and nato says that it will continue with its mission which is to protect civilians and. residents and i did that is doing that it's protecting civilians on the ground and. these t

in libya. there is so little civil society in libya there are so few and so democratic institutions are so weak they have nothing to build on and egypt in tunisia there was at least something to build on once the top filter was was was cut no way we're in libya that's not the case these people have to start from scratch and there are all kinds of reasons why it could fail what is the whole nature of the transitional council is the it's it's a mess and so these people are some of them are exiles some of their marmar have fled from there you could argue regime a few of them are islamicists some are intellectuals and college professors some are business people so just hanging together is going to be an enormously difficult task for them the other thing is that they've got to reprisals they've got they can't they can't they can't care for prices of their enemies that will just create the kind of civil strife that everyone was to award france planes to hold high level meeting next week to discuss li

investigators traced the attack to libya. when libya refused to turn over the suspects the u.n. imposed tough sanctions, leaving the country isolated and increasingly destitute. after 11 years as an international outcast, gadhafi cut a deal. he gave up the lockerbie bombing suspects for trial and after the u.s. invaded iraq, he surprised the world by agreeing to destroy all of his chemical nuclear and biological weapons. gadhafi soon welcomed western oil companies like bp and total into libya. but questions linkered about whether some western oil contracts were traded for scotland's release of one of the convicted lockerbie bombers. and he didn't give up the bizarre behavior. on a 2009 visit to italy he invited 200 models to his ambassador' house, paying each $75 to listen to lectures on islam and giving each a copy of the koran. back home, patience was running thin. after more than 40 years, rebellion bubbled up in the eastern part of the country, quickly spreading across libya. as his government disintegrated he stayed in the same house bombed in 1986. >> translator: this is m

no the future government of libya heading had these. support. be very very grateful. very helpful to these currencies these group of need two countries for them to to to read. see the future for the rebuilding of the economy over there china nor russia they have no chance to hear of the same equal. treatment they have the countless we each have helped the opposition in libya to be in this week three. and it will be following the dramatic events in libya on air and online throughout the day so he can do stay with us. let's get to some other news now israel and the palestinians have reportedly agreed to restore a fragile cease fire that's after sunday's attempt to end the cross border fighting around gaza resulted in more rocket and airstrikes artie's pull asli and i'll bring just more from some of. the popular resistance committees has agreed to. this egyptian brokered truce between israel and hamas now the p.l.c. is significant because moderate is a relatively small it's how this thing until it is. hold responsible for that initial cost border raid on tuesday that kil

has a contentious oil and gas exploration contract in libya which the u.k. government will be anxious for it to resume italian all jayanti end i. it's the first to send back to libya and eight sads rose in the knees french to towel and three is a when the well as investors hopes they soon be able to review production in libya but it will price to the libyan people the great fear is that just as they did in iraq the creation democracy which the spanish interests the west's interests or oil companies interests and does nothing for the people of the newer and that's what's he come to and i think a lot of people start to talk about the situation in libya wrapping up we're entering a new chapter i think it's important to take a look back to february when we first heard the speech from president obama when he announced that libya needed our help the united states has maintained a set of core principles which guide or. these principles apply to the situation in libya so i said last week we strongly condemn the use of violence in libya the american people extend our

one issue is very important in libya. libya is a rich country. there is plenty of money around. this situation is very different from the one we see in tunisia and egypt. libya does stand a good chance of making a big leap forward. >> thank you very much. that has -- stay tuned.

terrorism in libya. the terrorism that has been going on for months now killing innocent lives of the libyan people and we've been saying that surely withdraw their military forces and actually allow the roadmap that has been outlined by african leaders to resolve the conflict in libya peacefully we are not in support of either the rebels. or the pro got us forces in libya do you think the african union would have achieved what has been achieved so far some would say that they haven't really played a big role in this. no the nato nato has not achieved anything in fact nato is actually submitted to the probe no the african goes you are just going to have to interrupt i'm asking about the effort on the union. i'm trying to respond to both your questions the first one is that nato nato has not achieved anything even if they are to remove gadhafi and his government at the moment what we are going to have is. forms of political instability and further breakage of the civil war in libya and in terms of your ot

in libya. now former u.s. diplomat in libya john graham says even if the rebels take over there will barely be a hint of democracy in libya. there is so little civil society in libya there are so few democratic institutions and they are so weak they have nothing to build on egypt in tunisia there was at least something to build on once the filler was was was gotten away when in libya that's not the case these people have to start from scratch and there are all kinds of reasons why it could fail what is the whole nature of the transitional council is he it's it's a mess it's these people are some of them are exiles some of their are have fled from that you could argue regime a few of them are islamicists summary intellectuals and probably professors some are business people so just hanging together is going to be an enormously difficult task for them the other thing is that they've got. reprisals they've got they can't make can't they can't care for uprising against their enemies that will just

in libya continues to unfold. reporting from the border of tunisia and libya there and across the atlantic president obama said despite the rebel advance into tripoli the outcome of the main a battle remains fluid and he's going to church again has more commentary from washington d.c. . washington a key player in the fight for tripoli says they are in close contact with the rebels leadership and that the u.s. will support a peaceful transition to democracy president obama while on vacation has made this statement this monday in the wake of dramatic developments in tripoli over the weekend that were really far from peaceful again he was talking about what a terrible dictator it could be was what a great job nato has done he called the levy is to support the transitional national council that's a body that's heavily backed by western allies as we know he once again said that billions of dollars in frozen levy in assets will go to the council to help them restore order in the country that's been torn apart by the civ

treatment of the countess which helped the opposition in libya to be in this week. and we'll be following the dramatic events in libya on air and online throughout the day so do stay with us here on r.t. now i'll be back with the latest headlines in just a few minutes from now before that we have the business news with kareen. my. hello and welcome to our business update this hour we stop with oil prices are falling sharply sliding as leading rebels appear to be on the verge of ousting they could off the regime and christine just coronato from standard and poor's says brant crude is likely to hit the one hundred dollars per barrel mark. well if you needed to affect this particularly with brenda because it is more sensitive to what's happening in the region board before it to calm down but you have to realize that the thing seemed libya have not actually been resolved. khadafi the forces good steel play for counter-offensive so things have not been resolved but if things do get settled then we will see prior the price of grain coming down but we must not forget thoug

of course with iraq unlike iraq iraq libya is sitting on this by. asked oil wealth that complicates matters. severely but unlike iraq here in libya the coalition are saying that they've got this foundations government already in place this national transitional council already recognized by britain france germany britain will be keen that would enough. play if the prime minister has already said that they are in for the long haul they saying they have learned those lessons and that is fueled. by the insurgence revenge killings to try and achieve this smooth transition. has either been upright that the white house meantime is hailed as the rebels advance into tripoli saying the situation is at a turning tipping point president obama once again called on the libyan leader to acknowledge reality and give up power immediately and as the u.n. mandate for nato as a military mission there expires next month some are suggesting the timing of the battle for tripoli is no coincidence. and president obama spoke earlier this sunday night saying tripoli is slipp

now, the libya that you deserve is within your reach. going forward, we will stay in close coordination with the tmc to support that outcome, and though there are huge challenges ahead, the extraordinary events in libya remind us that fear can give way of hope and that the power of the people striving for freedom can bring about a brighter day. thank you very much. >>> and that is president obama's statement on the breaking news out of libya. the president saying that nato efforts will continue, but the regime is over with the leadership of moammar gadhafi. let me bring in rhita, a correspondent for the london-based newspaper, and you heard him there applaud nato and the efforts of the united states to bring down this regime after 40 years, and the president obviously being cautious in stating clearly that this fight is not over. you have some still loyal to moammar gadhafi on the ground in libya. >> it is like the president said, unprecedented coalition, and he gave everyone the due recognition, arab state, the international community,

has a contentious oil and gas exploration contract in libya which the u.k. government will be anxious for it to resume italian all giant easy and i. is the first to send back to libya and it says rose on their knees french to towel and all three as. well as investors hopes they'd soon be able to resume production in libya but it was price to the libyan people the great fear is that just as they did in iraq created democracy which serves british interests or the west's interests or the company's interests and does nothing for the people of libya nor m h o t. a the times correspondent pepe escobar believes as soon as western countries have been well contracts they are one boots on the ground to secure them. this is the cover story the story from the beginning wars are to be responsibility to protect that was the basis for u.n. resolution one hundred seventy three there is that neither of the agreement between the u.s. and saudi arabia we get a resolution based on your fake arab league called nine countries out of twenty two and you can do and you want were are

libya is an interesting example. gadhafi was one of the interesting dictator a persona nongrata whom we bombed in 2006 and we brought back and if you're tony blair and then we help bomb him out of the power. here in the united states the presidential debates should we isolate dictatorships? can we form effective partnerships with them on certain issues? are there any lessons we can learn from both libya or maybe other arab countries about how we can move forward as democracies with either engaging or not engaging dictatorships? >> a very good question. i think the latest events in the arab world has shown us first that every country is, of course, different. second, that military intervention should always be the last resort. and thirdly, yes, there are cases where you need to engage with a brutal dictator for a certain time. and we are facing syria right now. it's unthinkable that we can come to any kind of further development in syria without also having indirect channels and to his advisors right now and talk to h

he opened up libya for business. he influenced his father to giving up the weapons of mass destruction program, and also paid compensation to families of victims of the lockerbie bombing, but the situation with the uprising, many people thought, this is someone who can broker some kind of peace deal, but they threw it in, got on tv and started shouting about rivers of blood many. people then accused him of having been a wolf in sheep's clothing. he's now wanted by the international criminal court for war crimes. >> if he knows exactly where the whereabouts of his father, is this one that would turn against his dad ever, or lead -- be forced to give out any information? >> many experts say if he was going to betray his dad, it would have by now. he threw it all in with his father. it's likely that moammar gadhafi continues to move to difficult location, so in the event of a situation like this, they may not even know where he is. it's unlikely that he would give his father up, but under pressure to save his skin, who

the money that came into libya which is gigantic. as the world bank attested as recently as two thousand and nine i think distributed with some degree of equity which should be the envy of people in the united states just to start with them now the other thing is the whole question of preached at the press here has been appalling and in england too and in france and in italy i can't speak for russia but. you know the justification was the supposed genocide of conduct against his people the human rights organizations amnesty international human rights watch have completely independent to be refuted these accusations the accusations of mass rape and so on and so point so the actual very basis of the intervention has been discredited not that the press is about the point this out so what you've had no is a situation where really nato is engaged in a regime toppling operation very like a nineteenth century imperial exercise by britain and xander i'm really sorry about this but we are actually out of time now and i'm so sorry to cut you o

are watching the outcome in libya closely. the effects of the uprising being felt strongly, particularly on the oil markets. >> that's right. for most of the past few months the price of oil has been dictated by the events unfolding in libya as well as the rest of the middle east/africa region, and the end of gadhafi's power may mean a drop in oil prices. right now we are looking at brent. it's trading at 106.70 to the barrel, down by about $2.44. analysts are expecting prices to fall further. that means reversing the gapes we've seen since the uprising actually began just in the last -- the half year. if we can take this off and we'll click that. so, at this point, oil was trading at about $103 a barrel, the violence in the region and the uncertainty it fostered sent the price of oil higher. it reached its peak in april at $126 a barrel. over the course of the last few months the balance of power in libya also tips on who controls oil facilities. on sunday, the oil hub of al brega was captured. libya's economy is heavily depe

i want this stake in the political reshaping of libya and the economic reshaping of libya as they try to get that oil production back on-line again. >>let look further afield, john. in terms particularly of syria. it would appear that libya is going to be the third country to -- where the regime will change. what price syria and the president there. >> we went through this period, charles, as you know the last couple of month, where there is an arab spring fatigue. you didn't see movement. you had people constantly what's going to happen next in libya, what's going to happen in the other countries, what's going to happen in syria right now? i would imagine the view is quite different the last 24 to 48 hours where different camps plotting that struggle in syria are reinvigorated and from the view of ba seer al assad who tried to pitch this as a battle, that the west should not intervene. that argument doesn't hold as much weight going forward as you see the events transform in libya, particularly in the battle over tripoli. >> let's return to libya. because clearly, moammar gadhafi mad

taxpayer, how much more will we pay to libya? >> well, libya has resources. they have energy, their energy can provide them assistance. tripoli is a, don't want to overstate this but it is a modernizing city, so libya has capabilities. one of the key questions will be, is this thing quick and relatively peaceful? if that is the transition will be relatively quickly and the humanitarian situation will be fairly manageable. if there's a fight to the death between the rebels and those forces that are still loyal to gadhafi, then obviously the prospect of greater damage is likely and the humanitarian crisis, the flow of people leaving libya for neighboring countries, that's where the crisis could develop and that's where significant international support will be required, but going forward, it will be less about money and more about the kind of technical assistance that enables libya to build a civil society. >> t.j. crowley, former state department spokesman thank you very much sir. >> all right, brooke. >>> and now this. >>> we are here in the middle of tripoli

has a contentious oil and gas exploration contract in libya which the u.k. government will be anxious for it to resume italian oil giant e n i is the first to send back to libya and its shares rose on the knees towel and. the well as investors hoped they'd soon be able to resume production in libya but at what price to the libyan people the great sheer is that just as they did in iraq that creates a democracy which the british interests interests for oil companies interests and does nothing for the people of libya nor emmett's. rebels or reportedly put their flags on top of buildings inside the gadhafi compound and raided weapons stores this is the latest we're hearing from them at the moment however the part of the city housing the rixos hotel where journalists are staying remains under the control of gadhafi forces those trapped inside the hotel reports heavy fighting outside and nato forces say they've hit as many as forty targets in tripoli during three days of fighting the biggest number in a single location since the operation started in march. just to

he'll leave libya is dead. will he find sanctuary? will he be brought to justice or will he become a martyr? we'll talk about the ways this bloody conflict could finally end. and not that long ago some libyan rebels didn't know how to shoot straight. we're taking a closer look at whether they're ready for a final battle in tripoli and the challenges after that. stay with us. you a're in "the situation room" we take it on ours. this summer put your family in an exceptionally engineered mercedes-benz now for an exceptional price during the summer event. but hurry, this offer ends august 31st. but hurry, or creates another laptop bag or hires another employee, it's not just good for business -- it's good for the entire community. at bank of america, we know the impact that local businesses have on communities, so we're helping them with advice from local business experts and extending $18 billion in credit last year. that's how we're helping set opportunity in motion. and so too is the summer event. now get an inc

to bring democracy to libya and was that before it was difficult to maintain the government in libya because it's made of many tribes it's a society made of tribes that have conflicts with each other so it was difficult before and i imagine now it will be even more soubry what he thinks is going to happen in the in me and many other people that are watching libya are afraid that this may become another of ghana's county a country that's doubtless created by wars that last for years it's a society completely different from ours and our idea of democracy we don't approve of. their idea of government is based on groups and trying to get have their own change than those chief together from the national council they believe that this is the only way to represent all social groups for example they don't like our democracy because the sixty percent of the country votes for one president then the remaining forty don't agree with the president they believe this is not a form of democracy this is the first time that a country was attacked even though they are asked for a commission to go into

the fog of war in libya rebels. but his spokesman insists the colonel is still fighting on the front line. against the syrian regime but the journalists on the ground say. the crackdown is hard to verify. and. arrived in russia to join. a reported ten million euros per season easily paid in russia. on one. for me just under a quarter of an hour from now with the world of sport it is next with the latest. hello and welcome to the latest sports update on a big day for russian football as well as all those european competition and here are the top stories. a happy man samuel eto holds his first press conference in russia following his thirty million dollars. into milan. while the big draw after leo knockout revealing remaining russian side they need to test our way to place in the draw for the champions league group stage. and the joker men's number one tennis novak djokovic has a long reassure rap at his expense head of the usa. but first the top story in samuel eto says he's happy to be in russia the cameroon striker