the rebels and their push on tripoli. libyans explode in a jubilation anticipation get a fuse fall with skepticism but it may be too early to celebrate seems just as widespread. e.u. oil giants flocka back into libya on a red carpet laid out by a self-proclaimed new government king to reward those who helped to oust gadhafi. and end business uncertainty in libya person or crisis higher with some analysts say that would take at least a year to get back on top more in business in science in minutes. worldwide news live from moscow this is r.t. with me will receive shai explosions have been heard near the libyan leader's compound as the fight for tripoli rages for a third day but no one seems to know where colonel gadhafi is and heavy clashes between the rebels and government forces have been reported in central parts of tripoli including around the hospital in the latest footage from the capital we can see explosions possibly caused by nato bombing raids casualties are said to be mounting after intense fighting overnight al

there's one unit called the tripoli brigade. people who have come to tripoli, left tripoli at the beginning of the uprising here in libya and gone to other parts of libya like the mountains and benghazi where they got military training. they've now come back to their hometown. they are one of the units which is spearheading the opposition military advance. there are other people, though, young men who have got hold of a weapon, no training at all and they've decided that it's their day to come to the streets. >> being around the capital for most parts of the day, there were some hot spots, weren't there? there were security checks. from your knowledge at the moment, what are you hearing about where the conflict is, if it is happening at all? >> reporter: sorry, it's rather hard to hear. the -- my view of the picture across the city and it's very hard, it's very dangerous. there are certain areas we're not even attempting to go to at this stage because we know that they are going to be very dangerous flash points, but most -- mor

in the push on tripoli more u.k. military personnel are said to be on standby in the mediterranean to boost the effort. igo e.u. all of john's flock back to libya on a red carpet laid out by a self-proclaimed new government those who helped to oust gadhafi.

guiding the rebels in their push on tripoli. libyans are joining the jubilation anticipating peaceful skepticism but it may be too early to celebrate is just as widespread. and eager e.u. oil giants flock back to libya on a red carpet laid out by a self-proclaimed keen to reward those who helped to oust gadhafi. while saying there's this uncertainty of let this person all prices higher some of them saying it would probably stay here for the currency to get back on track more not in business since wednesday when it's. global news live from moscow's city center this is artsy with me rob research explosions have been heard near the libyan leader's compound as the fight for tripoli rages for a third day but no one seems to know where colonel gadhafi himself is and heavy clashes between the rebels and government forces have been reported in central parts of tripoli including around the hospital in the latest footage we have here from the capital we can see explosions possibly caused by nato bombing raids casualties are said to be mou

since the nato backed onslaught on tripoli started on sunday. and suggestions of ceasefire egypt has reportedly managed to convince both gaza and israel to lay down arms after days of heavy shelling. and other stories that have shaped the past week the crackdown against english rioters gains momentum with harsh sentences handed to those who played only minor parts in the chaos as human rights groups say judges and politicians have gone too far. and e.u. leaders promise of a single economic government fails to reassure anxious investors as fresh trouble over greece once again threatens stability. and. it is seven o'clock here in moscow the russian capital it is five o'clock in tripoli where you will find breaking news let's get right to that reports say rebel forces have reached to the center of the capital and are in control of ninety percent of tripoli the head of libyan leader moammar gadhafi is personal security forces reported to have disarmed his unit and surrendered the international criminal court says it can confirm that cut off his son'

forces in control of 95% of the capital of tripoli. heavy fighting continues around gaddafi's compound, bab al-azaziyah. his whereabouts are not known. it is unclear if he is in the country. few of his troops put up significant resistance as the rebels entered tripoli. they. to have simply melted away -- appeared to have simply melted away. reports are that rebels are in control of most of the city. gaddafi's opponents celebrated. the rebels incurred heavy losses. the battle is now raging for control of gaddafi's compound, which housed the regime's central command. there has been fighting in other parts of the city. gaddafi's supporters are in desperate positions. >> [unintelligible] that is not safe. >> gaddafi's whereabouts are unknown. pretoria has denied the rumor that he has flown to south africa. gaddafi was last heard from in a radio broadcast on sunday, rallying his supporters to defend to tripoli. the national transitional council hopes that he has not managed to flee the country. >> we want to arrest him alive so he can be gi

tripoli to a correspondent to get the latest him high you were in tripoli a few months ago blanket off he was in control of the capital in the eastern part of the country what is the situation like right now. well rory what we saw while driving from tunisia only been a border to the capital tripoli differs a lot from what we used to see here in libya in june or july when the western part of the country had been controlled by khadafi forces this is absolutely this is a completely different picture right now on the ground here new flags are hung everywhere all the buildings are covered with and to conduct a good tunes and gravity's chiefly and arabic but also in english and french saying welcome to new libya welcome to freely beer welcome to liberated leisure and of course you cannot see any portrait of her coming from duffy as it was before trademark rebels pick up trucks are the ones we used to see in benghazi and in the western libya. a kind of symbol of the fight against the regime are here everywhere well we cannot we can say for sure right now that this part of the country is compl

and it's the week of decisive breakthrough arrived in libya's civil war when tripoli was the scene of a major battle between the rebels and forces fighting for longtime leader colonel gadhafi the opposition claims that now controls most of the capital while resistance continues among khadafi loyalists in some parts of the country let's get more from our notion of who is in the libyan capital live now. thanks for joining us at this moment time we're hearing about concerns for the humanitarian situation in tripoli or any signs of it getting better at this moment. well as the rebels report that's they're now control than most of the libyan capital it seems that there are facing the battle of another kind of a humanitarian one the situation here on the ground is very complicated very difficult and this is very close to humanitarian catastrophe because the city is now facing severe shortages of running water electricity castle and medicine even in the hotel where we are staying and where most of the foreign journalists to stay we have serious problems with that. people use public taps thro

if the rebels do take the compound itself, does it mean that tripoli has fallen? that it is now over and the data fee is out of power? >> reporter: yes, this is the final stronghold in the city. if the rebels take this, then tripoli has fallen. there is still work to do. they will still have to form a government and consolidate their grip on the city. they there may still be loyalists on the loose trying to carry on sniper attacks, but the general control of the city will be in the rebels hands. if this battle is successful, tripoli will have fallen. >> richard andle, stand by for us as we watch this continue. we'll talk to the founder of aslon media now and the awe or the of "no god but god: the origin future and future of islam." it is great to see you here this morning. we are watching this being reported from richard and seeing what's happening there. we are all on the edges of our seats waiting to learn exactly what's happening within that compound, but we are not certain right now if gadhafi is inside the walls of the compound. but if he is, eventually captu

lesson from both of those and that actually the message is even coming from many of the rebels in tripoli and elsewhere in libya is that they don't want nato there any more they don't want western troops on the ground and they want to run their own country and i think it would be very foolish for david cameron or anybody else to believe this really vindicates their foreign policy in terms of the war on terror well one of the sons made a surprise appearance despite the rebels claim he was captured for almost two days they were saying they are in control and that also turned out to be untrue does that ring the alarm bells for you concerning the credibility of this anti gadhafi coalition. well i think what it does raise alarm bells with is the why in which the these issues are used very very much politically to justify western intervention we had the international criminal court saying that they knew that. saif al islam gadhafi was in custody when clearly they didn't know conclusively that that was the case and therefore this is being used in a political way. to employ the regime was weaker

shops all the houses are shut down in zawiya and we shut down in tripoli now the rebels think they've got a guy who's compound last night i had last lines canceled round one went to gadhafi because they said they had mohammed gadhafi and cycle is a press that was like an islamic smiling driving around tripoli so a house like last night tonight is another trap for the rebels in the compound that could thought these forces are allowing all these dozens and scores of rebels into the compound and let's see what happens to like and you know it may be a number of the rebels in tripoli two weeks ago it's been confirmed it was the british are you concerned about conducted that massacre eighty five civilians including thirty five children nothing to do with protecting civilians everything to do with dominating few libya but what's been clear in the last few days and it's been admitted by the daily telegraph yesterday what's planned all along a week by the nato forces so yes they want to wrap up libya wrap it up nicely presented as a as a successful test case to then roll on syria so it's all d

belonging to gadhafi that paved the way the signal was given and then the assault on tripoli began to surprised at that these forces and also downing street last night actually refused to rule out brain u.k. troops as peacekeepers should the transition that they're all talk not descend into anarchy and they've even got two hundred u.k. troops stationed in cyprus ready to get be deployed to libya at the drop of a hat. he's of abundant reporting and i thought he in libya is reported to have reached the country's border with tunisia where heavy gunfire has been heard the news of beefed up its presence along the front too as libyan infiltrators have allegedly crossed the border correspondent arena was at the spot for. the violent clashes have been reported along its unusually been border over the weekend it all started on friday when a local resident has reported that near the town do reportedly several vehicles with libyan license plate carrying arms men have been spotted afterwards clashes have been erupting throughout the weekend between the tunisian border patrol and the even men we c

belonging to gadhafi that paved the way the signal was given and then the assault on tripoli began to surprised at that these forces and also downing street last night actually refused to rule out bringing in u.k. troops as peacekeepers should the transition that they're all talk not descend into anarchy and they've even got two hundred u.k. troops stationed in cyprus ready to be deployed to libya at the drop of a hat. right there while i discuss the situation in libya europe's involvement in more detail now joined live from brussels by. he's the head of the european political forum i thank you for joining us today so one of could have made a surprise appearance despite rebels or trumpeting about his arrest what do you think it was an honest mistake or deliberate feeding a false information just to recap. you know i think it's quite normal for a. political forces to try to spread confusion in these sort of situations we have a very difficult situation with a lot of changes happening on the ground you know by by the minute we've got rebels advancing on tripoli the fighting in the subur

before the resolution expires from what we hear on the ground in tripoli the rebels and nato forces have met the deadline when you look at the footage coming from tripoli it very much reminds of. cheering that we saw in cairo when hosni mubarak was ousted and then the army took over the. shows are still struggling to make their voice heard and many levy unst who are afraid that their voices could be ignored by the international community now. and shouted warning there from washington d.c. well california based political scientist dr michael parenti says protecting civilians was just a pretext for nato to step in to levy a topple gadhafi and redirect the country's economy. same thing as you saw happen in yugoslavia and in eastern europe there will be a massive privatization take place the public economy that could be government built over forty years which included public subsidies for housing education health care it all goes in to be privatized the oil the oil fields would be whole group to private companies private profit this will come in and clean out. those who might still have

the rebels in their push on tripoli. military personnel are said to be on standby in the mediterranean to. you all john back to libya on a red carpet laid out by a self-proclaimed new government to reward those who helped to oust gadhafi reignited the debate over nato's real mode.

and across the atlantic president obama said despite the rebel advance into tripoli the outcome of the main battle remains fluid he's got a challenge joins me live now from washington gannett what else did we hear from the white house today. well bill 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 the 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 could be was what a great job nato has done he called for the leave us to support the transitional national council that's a body that backed by western allies as we know he once again said that billions of dollars in frozen leave in assets will go to the council to help them restore order in the country that's been torn apart by the civil war but before the rebels made made it to the central square in tripoli to celebrate the city's expensive nato bom

being snarled the secret weapons dance around tripoli then when the air force pave the way over the weekend bombing strategic communications. belonging to gadhafi that paved the way the signal was given and then the assault on tripoli began to surprise the daffy's forces and also downing street last night actually refused to rule out bringing in u.k. troops as peacekeepers should be the transition that they're all talking not descend into anarchy and even got two hundred u.k. troops stationed in cyprus ready to go be deployed to libya at the drop of a hat. right there well it's a discuss the situation in libya and europe's involvement in more detail now joined live from brussels by but i think he's the head of the european a geopolitical for about thank you for joining us today so one of coffee is a science made a surprise appearance despite rebels are trumpeting about his arrest what do you think it was an honest mistake or deliberate feeding a false information just a week. you know i think you know it's quite normal for a. political forces to try to spread confusion in these sort

of the city the southwestern part of tripoli and i think we said that up to twenty percent of the city were still are still in the hands of the soldiers and militia who are defending gadhafi so are you saying you are convinced that gadhafi could well be in a bunker in that compound being stormed at the moment by those rebels if that's the case we could be witnessing the last moments of gadhafi regime. well yes you know gaddafi is very erratic in his behavior and it's very difficult to say what will you do i mean his son and the television yesterday said no no my father you still here and we are fighting and he's not the man to run away like the other dictators did but on the other hand side i'm quite sure that he must have an emergency exit from his bunker system and can escape if he still should be there it might also be you know unfortunately as we see truth is the first victim of any war so nobody knows what is true in all the different denotes nevertheless if you did escape from that bunker how long could it be actually on the run bearing in mind he wouldn't be able to take a plane

and even get pulled the fate of tripoli it feels great the wheel grab is already beginning as western oil companies start circling around the violence torn country concerns that resurface the so-called battle for democracy was rather a war for black gold. and continued trying to leave it seems to have surprised some in the markets after monday's some progress is on the rise again this is not twenty minutes. just after three pm here in moscow this is r.t. with me some share power has reportedly been restored to the libyan capital with reports on the situation finally emerging after a five hour blackout of power explosions are seen right here pictures coming into us from really nato planes have reportedly been bombing the city heavy clashes between the rebels and government forces are reported to be taking place in central parts of tripoli including right around a hospital casual. these are said to be arriving at the facility following the intense overnight fighting earlier the story took a major twist when colonel gadhafi son made an appearance refuting rebels claims that he had been a

pockets of resistance remain in parts of the capital tripoli. the leader of the opposition national council told reporters in benghazi on wednesday that it will launch a new administration to replace gadhafi's as soon as possible. he spoke the day after anti-government forces seized gadhafi's military compound in tripoli, effectively bringing his reign to an end. the council plans to transfer its base to the outskirts of tripoli soon. >> translator: we are offering a bounty of $1.7 million for whoever captures gadhafi. >> he also said that the council will grant special amnesty to government officials if they hand in gadhafi or kill him. but with fierce resistance by gadhafi's troops continuing in the south of the capital on wednesday, and gadhafi himself still at large, the rebel administration is not in the clear yet. >>> in tripoli, several foreign journalists held under house arrest by the libyan government have been released. some 35 reporters from the bbc, cnn, and other media were kept for five days in a government-approved hotel for fore

among the hot spots, the tripoli airport which has seen some of the most intense fighting. rebels are in control there, but they're now fighting gadhafi loyalists just east of it. >>> one thing we're not seeing, any sign of this man, muammar gadhafi. but a benghazi businessman is hoping to change that. he's offered a $2.5 million bounty. and now one of gadhafi's sons is looking to negotiate a ceasefire to save tripoli from what he says will end up being a sea of blood. well, saadi gadhafi has offered to work with u.s. and nato officials to reach that ceasefire. he laid out the details in an e-mail exchange with our own senior international correspondent nick robertson who spoke about that earlier with anderson cooper. >> reporter: i sent him e-mails asking him can you talk, i want to talk to you. and i was kind of surprised hearing that he'd been captured to get an answer back. and he said, look, i want to negotiate a ceasefire in tripoli, a city of 2 million people. he said i don't want this to turn into somalia. i don't want there to be seas of blood here in the coming da

that they've strengthened their hold on the road from the capital tripoli to the new tunisian border known as a major supply route so. they are now controlling all the western part of. the country and the border with tunisia and it acts acts to help improve the situation but so far the station is quite. not optimistic not bright what we see here back to you right arches were a financial reporting from the libyan cup. as more information becomes available. and sticking with the story the scenes of celebrations this week across libya were reminiscent of those in cairo's tahrir square in february but there the high expectations after the revolution soon gave way to disillusionment egypt had been due to hold its first parliamentary vote in september but the interim government has delayed it citing the need for more time to prepare or two you can look at the parallels with libya. the cadets the regime is crumbling. the 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 many egyptians

the rebels and their push on tripoli. libyans are joining in jubilation dissipating peaceful but skepticism that it may be too early to celebrate is just as widespread . e.u. oil giants flocked back to libya on a red carpet laid out by a self-proclaimed new government. to help to oust gadhafi. level news twenty four seven this is r.t. live from moscow explosions have been heard near the libyan leader's compound as the fight for tripoli rages for a third day but no one is seems to know where colonel gadhafi is and heavy clashes between the rebels and government forces have been reported in central parts of tripoli including around a hospital in the letters of footage from the capital here we can see explosions possibly caused by nato bombing raids casualties are said to be mounting after intense fighting overnight although electricity in tripoli has been restored after hours of blackouts o'connell coffee's a son saif made a surprise public appearance proving wrong reports that rebels have captured him yet at the hotel wher

let's check in with the latest for the battle for tripoli. rebel fighters planning the next offensive after some pretty big gains earlier today, the rebels came under heavy fire and had to retreat from green square. meantime moammar gadhafi is still mia, and they u.s. official sounds a little more certain, saying, quote, there is reason to believe he reremains in libya. >>> well, the white house says that gadhafi should go and prevent further bloodshed. jill dougherty is at the state department, apparently getting new information. jill, what do you have? >> yes, it is interesting. it's coming from jeff feltman, the assistant secretary of state for near east affairs. i reached him in cairo. he was in benghazi, the rebel stronghold over the weekend. he says that senior libyan officials were actually reaching out to the united states in the last moments before the onslaught began, and feltman is saying this was obviously -- or it felt it was an attempt to buy some time, to stop what they felt was inevitable. they were willing, he says, to negoti

the rebels and push on tripoli. e.u. oil giants flock back to libya on a red carpet laid out by a self-proclaimed new government keen to reward those who helped to oust gadhafi. libyans explode in jubilation anticipating could have peaceful skepticism of that it may be too early to celebrate it seems just as a widespread. worldwide news and live from moscow this is artsy with me roll recent show explosions have been heard near the libyan leader's compound as the fight for tripoli rages for a third day but no one seems to know where colonel gadhafi is heavy clashes between the rebels and government forces have been reported in central parts of tripoli including around a hospital in the footage here from the time we can see explosions possibly caused by nato bombing raids casualties are said to be mounting after intense fighting overnight over the course of the tripoli has been restored after hours of a big blackout colonel gadhafi saif made a surprise public appearance proving wrong reports the rebels have captured h

and the traps came in from came from the areas to tripoli to join the battle we are also going to. the people there. so this is this is the information that i am hearing from our contacts across chimpy of course this is a huge time around. and if they turn out to be if they do if they are confronted in the coming hours. then it will be very interesting to see what this means for nato and its forces on the ground there you heard rebels. there on the white house is hailed what it called a tipping point for the regime of colonel gadhafi but amid the positive sentiments parallels have already been drawn to gyptian celebrations on tahrir square and the disillusionment that later followed artie's gannett she can reports from washington d.c. . president obama spoke earlier this sunday night saying tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a tyrant also that could alfie and must relinquish power once and for all nato secretary general has made a statement of similar as fact saying they could offer a regime is crumbling and that now the leaders have a chance for a new beginning he also said tha

the line with this and how would you describe what's happening in tripoli at the moment. there are targeted attacks seven it's specifically targeting the areas where international journalists are to keep their need of heavy work this is a nato war make no mistake this is me toward the heavily bombed cities west of here in the bomb all night put out even ten seconds of starting a pompous uncursed a needle landed in the year or the insurgents wanted to cause tripoli they have no respect for international trade i was putting up a sign on the hotel on top of what would go to the mission. and. i implore i beg. beg international community the real international to need international community of people governments within the nato alliance to stop this bloodshed and to get me to discuss already this horrific attack in tripoli. part of. being engaged in afghanistan in iraq and in pakistan and other parts of the world this part of the scene and. mercilessly in this country and the current instance to be when. things are speedball to take up arms to defend tripoli from the rebels h

independent journalists at the rixos hotel in tripoli tell r.t. they feel under siege and in danger from what's happening outside. the. opposition supporters rejoice in the forty year old regime is nearing a dead end and skeptics point to the protests disillusionment that followed the full of egypt's to take. leaders rush to hold talks with officials from libya's new government as the transitional council named several nato nations as favorites for a new credit contract. international news live from r.t. here moscow is just turned eleven pm and nine pm in tripoli and so to our breaking news this hour the fast moving developments in libya rebel say that they now control most of tripoli and have taken libya state t.v. channels off air in some reports suggest opposition fighters have been looting private how's it's to good after his sons enough will be in rebel hands for the third having escaped house arrest opposition leaders say a large number of their fighters have been killed the reports of heavy fighting around gadhafi compound but the whereabou

to the capital tripoli. meantime, the last vestiges of moammar gadhafi's power base appear to be crumbling. after hours of fighting, rebels finally over ran his heavily fortified compound on tuesday, carting out weapons, knocking over statues and raising their flag. there's no sign of colonel gadhafi at the compound nor anywhere else. but libya reportedly heard from its embattled leader in an audio broadcast directed to his supporters. his exact whereabouts remain unknown. residents turned out on tuesday to celebrate the rebel takeover of the gadhafi compound. the gadhafi loyalists still control libya's rixist hotel. they're preventing people from leaving it, including our matthew chance. >>> colonel gadhafi's radio speech is the second from about 12 hours. two arab tv networks aired his remarks. let's listen in to what has been said. >> translator: i call to all libyans, tribesman, youth, seniors, women and loyal fighters to clear the city of tripoli and eliminate the criminals, traitors and racked. we coul

hunt colonel gadhafi after taking over the capital tripoli. north korea will limit nuclear arms testing and production if international talks on security in the region to resume a pledge made by the country's reclusive leader on a rare trip to russia. and the lack of progress in unmanned space ship carrying supplies to the international space station is missing after crashing over siberia. and it's the week a very decisive breakthrough arrived in libya's civil war when tripoli was the scene of a major battle between the rebels and forces fighting for longtime leader colonel gadhafi the opposition claims that now controls most of the capital the resistance continues among cut off in loyalists in some parts of the country let's get more from archies at riff notion of who is in the libyan capital live now thanks for joining us at this moment and we're hearing about concerns for the humanitarian situation in tripoli or any signs of it getting better at this moment. well as the rebels report there now control the most of the libyan capital it seems

control tower. >> reporter: we're up in the control tower on the tarmac of the tripoli international airport. we have to stay a bit low because the rebels say there's a sniper who's been shooting at them. but we wanted to show you this, that smoldering airplane. this airport complex has been bombarded relentlessly by gadhafi loyalists using various kinds of artillery and grad rockets. and if we come over to this side, we can actually still hear the sounds of explosions of gunfire. but if we move around, we can see even more of the wreckage that has been caused by the gadhafi loyalists' assault on this airport complex. now, if we come over to the other side of the air control tower, you can see the wreckage of an aircraft that was hit overnight. and the rebels say that the assault on this airport complex is so intense for a number of reasons. first of all, the senior commanders here believe that gadhafi loyalists are trying to keep huge swaths of land that rebels don't control free so that they can perhaps try to sneak gadhafi himself through them. but also the rebels believe that gad

of strategic communications posts they got the go ahead for the final march on tripoli itself so the british government actually knew this was all on the cards for some time now however it did concede that it does already have two hundred troops ready to be deployed from cyprus as peacekeepers should the situation the transition they want to send into anarchy so they prepared for that and also six hundred more marines actually also stationed in the mediterranean ready to be deployed in what the government terms as the role of support for the humanitarian cause so clearly downing street at the moment refusing to rule out. the use of what could be almost one thousand ground troops should the situation call for it clearly there is some contradiction there to this idea of handing over control to the libyan people so they are in chicago their own future and clearly the british and also other european states are not that confident just see it that this transition will be as peaceful as they all want it to be. reporting right well i mean brian becker who is an antiwar activist who believes

and the tribes came in from came from the areas to tripoli and so joined at the back so we have also heard that gadhafi was. with the people there. so this is this is the information that i'm hearing from our contacts the question be of course this is a huge time around. and if they turn out to be if they do if they are confined in the coming hours. then it will be very interesting to see what this means for nato and its forces on the ground i.e. the rebels. he's a felon there how the white house is hailed what it called a tipping point for the regime of colonel gadhafi but amid the positive sentiments parallels have already been drawn to gyptian celebrations on talking square and the disillusionment that later followed are reports from washington d.c. . president obama spoke earlier this sunday night saying tripoli is slipping from the grasp of a thai randall's so that you must relinquish power once and for all nato secretary general has made a statement of similar in fact saying they could offer a regime is crumbling and that now the libyans have a chance for a new beginning he als

the capital in tripoli. the numbers of reporting, 80%, 90% in control. no word on the fate or the whereabouts of moammar gadhafi. joining us from quebec city, former nato supreme commander general wesley clark. general clark let me begin with this. can nato help the rebels find gadhafi? can the cia help? because we know they're in there somewhere. >> if he's talking, yes, but if he's just in a bunker somewhere, burrowed down underneath a house in some nondescript part of the city, probably not. in a given amount of time he'll be found. it seems unlikely he's going to simply hold out there. the way this has to work is the rebels have to find exactly where their limits of control are in the city. they have to push gadhafi's forces back into a perimeter, and continue to constrict that perimeter, and if gadhafi's not there, that perimeter is going to collapse pretty quickly. if he's there, putting his personal charisma on the line behind it, that's how you'll know. >> i know as you were on last night, we were ta

pockets of resistance remain in parts of the capitol, tripoli. the leader of the council told reporters wednesday that it will launch a new administration to replace gadhafi's as soon as possible. he spoke the day after antigovernment voices seized gadhafi military compound in tripoli effectively bringing his reign to an end. the council plans to transfer its base to the outskirts of tripoli soon. >> translator: we're offering a bounty of about $1.7 million for whoever captures gadhafi. >> the council will grant special amnesty to government officials if they hand in gadhafi or kill him. but with fiercery siftens by gadhafi's troops continuing in the south of the capitol wednesday and gadhafi himself still at large, the rebel administration is not in the clear yet. in tripoli several foreign journalist held under house arrest by the libyan government have been released. some 35 reporters from the bbc, cnn and other media were kept for five days in a government-approved hotel for foreign journalists. at least two politicians were also among the ca

tripoli so it was not a surprise to the surprise of all the foreign. power went by but eventually docked at the hotel. with. convoy and he gave an interview to be done with the some of the time with him for a dry fifty where they were taken to the area some of them say they saw thousands of people in this area and support the libyan government and. a number of people from tribes across the country have come into the capital to support the struggle here against the rebels but very much relaxed and high spirit insisted that the libyan government and volunteers are winning against the rebels and then we also have the news that the hobbit gadhafi has brought home a good half of a son who was reported to have been captured has been released by his other brother ahmed good afternoon and he is part of the day to state media and television so of course these events are just completely trying to this effect. of the wild about what's happening here in the capital on its highest. calling on to r.t. to call for more eyewitness accounts from tripoli. they went to a

opposition fighters finally got to tripoli. >> the speed at which the rebels got tripoli was far faster than we expected as well. really, the critical thing is when they took the town. basically the capital was cut off from the rest of the world and it was really a matter of time before things started to fall apart in the dam. >> the speed they moved off of the mountains and hit the coast, not to dilute what is going on. there has been severe fighting and many casualties up against what is meant to be a trained army. you surprised at just how quickly that army melted away? >> i think that there was a certain amount of momentum with the opposition fighters. they were convinced of the justice of their cause and it was rough going. at certain points i remember the area in eastern libya it was really a work in progress and often there was no progress. it would come under fire from gadhafi's forces and just retreat in cleat chaos. it's not clear where that came from. we have interviewed many captured soldiers and there did seem to be the feeling that there was not very high moral among their

tripoli to a correspondent on the roof and also to get the latest tamary a high you were in tripoli a few months ago michael duffy was in full control of the capital in the eastern part of the country what is the situation like right now. well rory what we saw driving from tunisia only been to the capital tripoli differs a lot from what we used to see here in libya in june or july when the western part of the country had been controlled by kentucky's forces this is absolutely this is a completely different picture right now on the ground here new flags are hung everywhere all the buildings are covered with and to conduct good tunes and graphic t.'s chiefly in arabic but also in english and french say welcome to new libya welcome to freely beer welcome to liberated there and of course you cannot see any culture at all for duffy as it was before trademark rebels pickup trucks were the ones we used to see in benghazi and in western libya. the kind of symbol of the fight against the regime are here everywhere well we cannot we can say for sure right now the peace part of the country is co

tripoli a city in chaos there's constant gunfire aggressive and celebrate and on the outskirts of the capital stockpiles of chemical weapons nato know very little about the people who might come to power. tripoli so now if you've got these caches of weapons of mass destruction that again people really don't know what's there and if this is falling into the hands of the people i mean the situation is potentially disastrous despite the heavy presence of rebels in tripoli the chemical stockpile appears still to be in the hands of what's left of these government that's both good and bad news following a series of meetings in two thousand and three moammar gadhafi agreed to allow weapons inspectors into libya the first step towards abandoning his w m d pro. graham in return for a normalizing of relations with the u.k. and us they agree that he wouldn't use or move the material but now thanks in part to nato support of the rebels he's on the back foot and may feel he has nothing to lose by disregarding that agreement cry victory or martyrdom will strike an ominous note to those who know his

is in tripoli by the libyan government. so really we're just raping our and being alone for the last few days. about that. they don't have any kind of popular support and they say. any kind of they don't think that even. the key player in the military campaign against the libyan regime washington's claim the rule of gadhafi is coming to an end the u.s. is reported to be in close contact with rebel leaders and is monitoring the situation on the ground who's going to reports from washington we haven't heard any official say statements yet but as the rebels are closing in on tripoli we might be well seeing the end of your regime the whole of the international community has been denied it is saying there could be has no future in a libya and that including all of the members of the u.n. security council they all shared their view that moscow including russia as well but the means by which he needed has been accomplishing the goal of ousting khadafi have seen many violations of the u.n. resolution that authorized the military in

of tripoli that was not the right. part of the foreign done. but i think hotel. honestly i'm a bit and if you see this and if you don't think i promise it's on the weekend for drive three to fifty but they were taken. and some of them maybe thousands of people in the. number of. people from hyde park for country have come into the house this will be the fourth the struggle here again the rebels are. very much relaxed and high spirit here that the libyan government and problem is a winning against the recall and then we also have to news that one hundred good arche his family could have shot the gun he was reported to have been perhaps that had been released by his other brother. and he had already begun. television so cool he's been completely. ok well that's what's happening here in the capital on it. ok in the long gone towards the dot com for more eyewitness accounts from tripoli. people who. didn't live through all the. u.s. . journalists staying essential firstly hotel saying it's been targeted by rebels and get m

been brought to military trial since the end of the popular revolution that ousted in tripoli the by taking over is the national transitional council also not chosen by the libyan people yet the council is being recognized as the legitimate government of libya by all allies who've been helping oust gadhafi and many lidia's are outraged by the fact that foreign powers are effectively making vital choices for them there is too much wealth and geopolitical strategic value to libya to look at only because we form democratic rights and universal participation by the citizenry. western powers need to implement a western economic and military agenda and therefore the people who will eventually command the political situation in libya and the military situation will indeed be supported and buttressed by western powers western power. said throw all their support behind the leader in national transitional council giving them billions of dollars and weapons to gain control but the rebels are far from being the united group what is going to face after that is a period of prolonged chaos nobody k

chaos in the capital has been seen in tripoli since the square waving revolution x. . journalistically miss on who's founder and chairman of online newspaper the volta network is in the rixos hotel in tripoli and told me just a little earlier that nato forces are doing everything to back up the rebels. knowing. all the leaders of three weeks from the ok but so there is only thought only synthroid you know. the e.u. is really. only seem to try to keep it all those inside. no. electricity and no food and we saw. the hotel is surrounded by good rights. to prevent the entrance. but for me to lose a lot of. those would be counted. for the. you wounded night. nato is bonding to places. where you actually got failed or do we got to shoot everybody in the street and after that only after that the so-called rebels and so in the street. well there are reports of gunfire near the libya tunisia border at the moment and thousands of libyans are heading in that direction to flee the fierce fighting between pro and anti get out the force is not a correspondent and he is at the border

colonel's residence in tripoli but some sources on the ground have told our teens to early to say tripoli's fall and there are still confusion as to who is controlling the city. meanwhile massive celebrations are in full swing in the center of the rebel stronghold of benghazi but experts who draw parallels to the events in egypt warn of the disillusionment that will likely follow. and disproportionate justice british judges argues of overreacting in cases ranging from recent riding to a war veteran who recorded a court hearing human rights groups have raised the alarm over harsh punishments that often don't match.

they were able to push all the way into tripoli. we have driven the road all the way into the city center. we are seeing rebels in the city center. they are celebrating, firing guns. but in the few minutes we were there, all of the sudden they started to run. they were yelling "sniper, sniper." they were running, hiding. then about ten minutes later after we talked to some of those people in the square who were happy to be back in their homes. they had come back to fight. they said, we have intelligence that gadhafi forces are coming back into this square, that they are going to put up a massive fight. they were all starting to take their positions. they told us to get out, so we got out of the square. we do not have it confirmed from another source but we were headed out of the city and we are now seeing a massive fire. we are about -- how many kilometers are we outside, guys? about 20 kilometers. we are somewhere around ten miles outside seeing a massive fire going in the outskirts of the capital. michael? >> have you seen -- you

moment in the capital tripoli. >> and sara, what do the rebels plan on doing next? they do indeed have the compound. it is theirs now. gadhafi still nowhere to be found. what's their next step as you speak to them? >> reporter: that is the difficult part, because i think right now what's happening is they're really trying to concentrate on any pockets of the city that are still problematic, any pockets of the city where they still see the people who they consider enemies, that is those that were fighting for gadhafi. we did see also, to show you what the tension was like outside that compound, we did see them with a man who had his arms bound behind his back. they were walking him out of the compound. and then there was some kind of argument and suddenly we saw one of the -- one of the rebels pointing a gun, pointing a rifle at this man. and we were asking who he was, was he someone who was captured. and then eventually he talked his way out of it, and they realized that he was an actual civilian who had gone in to the compound because he wanted to see it. but there

what we see really is we need 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 some oil production could resume shortly now it's least foreign minister has confirmed that the italian oil company any has sent back into the libya they've led the way really in sending a work his back that now what we've seen is the other big oil companies such is the key have actually passed on the fence at the moment they're waiting for see exactly how this plays out what's going to happen in the coming days and weeks we've heard from the information editor of the libyan rebel oil is that they said they don't have any problems with western countries one thing companies italy france the u.k. they're ok but they could have political issues with countries like brazil china and russia now if that's to be the case then that could certainly be a major setback those countries you could see the loss of billions of dollars worth of oil contracts and i was speaking to one of the editors today very large mistake

large the newly appointed commander of the tripoli military council is now that that's something that over the weekend we saw the u.k. think appendant also call him the founder of the libyan affiliate of al qaeda after the nine eleven attacks who to your knowledge is in charge of libya right now i hold no idea who's in georgia of libya and i think that the asia times reporting on this seems very serious seems very solid and. has done a good job i think of sort of following out what the targets are by going back to originally the mujahideen in afghanistan and then in iraq. the jailing of some of these people the release of some of these people i mean that seems to be a very solidly research and i think that i just think you're going to have a hornet's nest here and i think that the west went into this with i don't like the keystone crusaders or something that is a distinct through and they thought it was going to be over quickly and now they've got the situation which i don't see that there's any way ladle is not going to end up having to put troops on the ground and that's going to be

rebels have flooded the streets of tripoli trying to hunt down khadafy in one of his district in the south of the city district known as abu salim. has always been stronghold of his supporters but actually we we this information has been confirmed and we still have no sign of khadafi actually. that parent lee and definitely this is far from over. as you say we've got a lot of information and misinformation coming to us from both sides of the coverage here but no it's your second time in libya since the conflict broke out six months ago what kind of movie is it compared to when you first visit. well rory what we saw while driving from the tunisian libyan border to the capital tripoli differs a lot from what we used to see here in june and july when the western part of the country had been controlled by cut off his forces new leaders flags. waving everywhere and all the buildings all the walls covered with profit say in arabic english and french are welcome to new libya welcome to freely via also everywhere. so it's complete it's just absolutely different country absolutely different.