colonel gadhafi is pulling out all the stops to regain control of his country with new air strikes being reported american and british forces on standby the locals fear the intervention will do more harm than good. conflicting reports some confusion coming from libya with the public i'm sure of what is happening meanwhile dozens of people have been killed in swiss fighting and hundreds more injured join me for an update in a few moments from the libyan border. and egyptians are struggling to cope with their new found freedom and some are still

celebrating all those of them are being further change make sure that scares tourists away costing the country millions of dollars in revenue. also reporting that it's fifty eight years since the death of joseph stalin but their case on his legacy still divides opinion but he speaks to a man who went from a war hero to a labor camp prisoner on the order of the soviet. live from our studios here in central moscow this is r.t. with twenty four hours a day opposition strongholds have been under attack because moammar gadhafi made a major push to regain control over strategic parts in libya a day of fierce fighting has reportedly left seventy dead and three hundred wounded meanwhile two u.s. warships have departed their place in the mediterranean as part of a military buildup around the b. amid fears over possible intervention but also has the latest now from the chinese

and libyan border. on saturday the libyan leader moammar gadhafi launched a fresh military offensive he's trying to retake some of the chance he's lost in the past eighteen days of fighting there were some seventy people killed those are the latest reports we're receiving and more than three hundred people injured with reports of its strikes and live ammunition and growing fears that libya is descending into civil war most of the fighting is in the key towns of libya such as the weir which is some fifty kilometers from the capital tripoli and the oil rich port of ras north now in russia and of the latest reports there suggest that rebel leaders are in control slowly making their way towards the capital city of tripoli in zawiya itself at drawn in the gadhafi forces launched an attack they fired a mortar shells they used machine guns and throughout most of saturday heavy fighting happened to their villages what we have from the rebel leaders themselves

as there they remain in control inside of the town and we hearing from government forces are bearing control around the perimeter now this is an important town because it is so close to the capital and if the rebels are able to maintain a presence there they will have a better chance of attacking tripoli it is interesting though that some of the pictures we're showing you here on our t.v. have actually been distributed by the gadhafi regime it's really trying hard to present its version of events it's using these pictures as proof that its forces are in control in most of these towns in the east it's very difficult to tell from these pictures in fact who is in control on the ground but it certainly is indicative that in addition to the fighting on the ground is certainly is a fight in the media and information war in terms of who is in control of what now many of the media in europe and in the united states has been supporting the rebels there have been editorials in major american and european newspapers actually calling on the waist to support the rebels and at tech gadhafi the latest word we

hearing is that the western media is trying to portray gadhafi is. forces as losing and the opposition forces winning but as you can see from these pictures it certainly is not clear who has the upper hand there also analysts who are pushing forward the opinion that the western media is so empty gadhafi because he has taken such a strong stand in the past against western interference in developing countries the latest word from the british government is that it is confident that it is considering and is on standby to deploy its forces within twenty four hours of says of these forces will be used for humanitarian and evacuation purposes and not for any kind of military intervention the latest word we have from the u.s. is that its two warships have a lift crease and according to a statement issued they are part of the military buildup around libya and we also know that two american planes have landed in china as you are they are reportedly here for humanitarian efforts we also know that france and the united kingdom are

putting pressure on the united nations security council to make a decision on a no fly zone this certainly is something that libyans here do not support as i found out when i spoke to people around the border this is the road out of libya but it's also the road to the lines the pockets of hundreds of libyans who make their living selling fuel fourteen times the price they paid back. libyan graph your work. and libya long. let him stay in power for life. and as much as some may support gadhafi other libyans despise the united states at the moment of course the u.s. will not enter libya what rights they have they don't get the aftermath is libyan for days he's been trying to get to that unity inside of the border to check up on his family who on the other side you know some of them have been injured beyond so he says is not with foreign intervention. people libyan people they don't the world

. another like ari i mean like so much in libya the foreign nations seem to be giving a little concern to what libyans themselves actually want a debate for a no fly zone is continuing and u.s. warships are sailing not far from the libyan coast they're ready to come help libya not so really be a base help libya for the world was over this is a problem. if the u.s. russia and other countries case unfolds it was time that scenes like this are used such i mean shit to keep watch out for against foreign involvement they know well the price is often paid for so-called humanitarian assistance history has shown that humanitarian aid in any war zone is more often than not thinly disguised military aid during the war in bosnia it was discovered that u.n. trucks delivering aid were in fact transporting military equipment in afghanistan

the very weapons america gave to the taliban in the early eighty's came back to haunt the u.s. army following its two thousand and one afghan invasion so it's no wonder the libyans whether they support gadhafi or not are united on one issue they want the world and american particular to stay out of the roof is policy r.t. . on the chin is in libyan border. as the threat of u.s. intervention in libya looms closer some experts believe foreign action is now virtually imminent where you host stephen lemon told me earlier that washington is directing a crisis with so-called color on all rules. position for souter's i believe these are individuals groups where are they listed by america enlisted. and listed maybe by france or not which the nations primarily do you where's secondarily written to one desperate to put another

one is for ace and the libyan people i must say i wrote a lot more savvy the americans there because they know what you were just inattention meaning us they know what humanitarian means when america's need to do this for you it has nothing to do with humanitarian aid nothing to do with democracy nothing to do with hoping that people just of color exploit them steal your resources brutalized the people of all colors the country by one means or another even if you regard should iraqis afghans know or. call or set up a puppet government you controls and call aggressively our way but it's too late libya. well for more on the crisis gripping libya and the entire region stay tuned for some opinions from the streets of the big apple that's coming your way in just three minutes from now. we all knew cheese was going to home. our feet.

it was just a matter of triage before these decatur's were. the things shay's people want change the people were hurt people hurt we moved to action people angry they moved to action i believe it's more about power and the unfair distribution of power than it is about real democracy. i mean one in egypt crowds are calling for the death penalty to be handed to their former interior minister as he stands trial for corruption in karma the country one of the first to write to him popular protest is still reeling from the uprising that president hosni mubarak was forced to step down in february and the saudis oksana boyko reports life for many egyptians may be even harder than before. loading on freedom after decades of protest abstinence egyptians are tasting their newly found liberties still unable to get enough of with.

even the resignation of hosni mubarak's close associate as prime minister one of the key demands of the opposition didn't take the steam out of to free squares rally in fact been number of tent city residents seems to be getting even higher now as lee has been camping on the square for three weeks formerly a special needs educator she quit her job to be here and so far has no intention of looking for a new one we're going to stay here until all the demands are been met the demands are being met one by one but it's still the process is taking longer than expected the revolution is not yet over but it's already becoming a brand street vendors who paddled mubarak's portraits just two months ago have now switched to the revolution a more a billionaire. a lot of people love revolution everyone wants to be a part of the largest selling world. means liberation in arabic a fitting the four square has become

a focal point in anding mubarak's autocratic rule yet a few profiteering renders notwithstanding the egyptian revolution comes at a high cost to clear squares that's with the chesters again only now instead of fascination demands they're chanting celebrators slogans the piece of revolutionary intoxication rock totally natural is causing injury of millions of dollars every day branded as a symbol of free egypt square stands in a stark contrast to another egyptian attraction the slave build pyramids the rowing crowds have secured their way visitors with lost revenues already exceeding one billion dollars usually it is busy pretty before is a problem is. business after. problem. many people here don't believe that cairo protests will significantly alter their life prospects for them freedom comes to their village to feed their families that

for now remains far from certain the business is growing very slow at the moment we have almost like five or seven percent of the clients and most of them are coming from middle east not coming from europe it's not that they don't support their revolution they're just the first to discover it's bittersweet taste and to realize that revolutionary intoxication is almost always followed by a headache at some point or artsy cairo. as a way of antigovernment revolts rocks the arab world it's unclear how and when the op risings will end across the ocean our own resident in new york go to snap shot of opinion on the ongoing protests. you know the insurrections revolutions and uprisings in the middle east catch you off guard this week let's talk about that are you surprised i'm not surprised.

i'm going ramallah i will say seven weeks ago in minute. i reported bore the political situation in the middle east was very very. one week off through the whole thing collapsed in tunisia and egypt change was coming right we all knew. i mean. it was just a matter of time before these dictators were you know things shay's people want change people were hurt people hurt we moved to action people were avery they moved to action do you think the world leaders are caught off guard by this. i think they're caught off guard in knowing what how to react because they believe they know the world is going to be more unstable but they have to support the idea of freedom so it's a mix a mixed blessing do you think they all these are going to lead to more on raster

more instability yes i believe it's more about power and the unfair distribution of power than it is about real democracy oh i think it's you know does the time make the leader does the leader make the times i've always like in an ongoing question when it comes to stuff like this and i think we have to wait and see this is going to be a good test for everyone in power right now to see how they come out yes what do you think the effect is going to be around the world what i think it's really not going to make much difference. when different people come into power that they'll say you know they'll start treating people right and everybody in this world we will have the united states will have to be a police country anymore all the social networking that's. you can no longer hear people in heat on the propaganda that they used to do you think this is something that could happen here or in europe or in other places. but that's scary you.

know. so you're prepared for it but i think. it's a little scary to know that people anyone can have so much influence now i don't want a leader giving me proud again but it's a little unnerving to know that anyone with a computer can have that kind of. power to it you have to be smart enough to know what to listen to and what to ignore whether or not you think anyone has any idea of what's to come next the bottom line is that there's no denying this is the time i've. got a little later in the program artie's close the team shows you a different side to one of the oldest cities in russia you can find out how people really spice things up in the winter. and help sports put you on the map of the top tourist destinations in the country we have all the details for you in a few minutes from now on the. fifty eight years after his death

soviet leader joseph stalin remains one of the most controversial political figures in history adored and idolized by his son despised and scorned by others starting at the country to victory in world war two but through the through the heroes who helped him into labor camps as are the reports now on his legacy out of hitler and benito mussolini joseph stalin some of history's most notorious dictators who for years were adored by the people of their countries the cult of personality phenomenon has intrigued historians and psychologists alike. a simple sounding question of how one person exact situ influence over millions still does not have a simple answer is something that remind me of the stockholm syndrome in

a way where. after you have been killed in that processes by some bad person you start loving the love is not a true love but it's a way to save yourself to keep your balance ok. the so-called people's father ruled the country with an iron fist and despite the tears persecutions and executions he was almost worshiped. by the term the soviet union entered the second world war stalin's personnel cult was at an all time high men and women all across the country were willing to lay down their lives for only believing that bravery and ultimately victory ok errantly them stalin's approval. there was twenty three when he returned home from the battlefields having survived dozens of attacks partisan missions and months in captivity he was proud to be coming back alive proud to have accomplished what comrade stalin had asked of him.

i remember be march for a small lottery in the local women were all standing on the street throwing things that are spinning and shouting stalin's bandits that's what they called the port isms and i remember feeling that a sort of pride because being a leader is mended somehow close to him and we all wanted that but i had that feeling for a long time until i set things straight. in one hundred forty if there was accused of being a traitor and sentenced to twenty five years in a labor camp the charge was simple he survived activity which the stones mined then he had sold out his country for his life and no proof was necessary after three months of torture yet there was ready to sign any document whatsoever with you i refused to sign this so-called confessions even after all the torture they took me through but then they said if you don't sign will bring your parents here and i

come and go so i agreed a few months later i was on my way to the polar region to the rules labor camp. eight years later the effort turned home and the new secretary general of the soviet union denounced alan's personality called the man who had twice been named time magazine's person of the year had all his carefully sculpted glory taken away . to this day still and evokes mixed emotions with his actions still being debated ensuring in some respect his personality called still survives. cashew nuts are of r t moscow. when i was time for other news making headlines around the world at this stage of the day here the israelis have used tear gas and smoke grenades against female palestinian protesters and it's time to disperse them thousands of women rode international activists them straight to the north in jerusalem the man to bring occupation of the west bank there to say they were inspired by calls for

democracy that toppled it is in egypt and trim easier. the italian prime minister silvio berlusconi is back on trial facing corruption charges prosecutors claim mr going to school his media empire purchased television rights using offshore companies as part of our tax dollars this is one of four choices that the italian media is currently linked to including allegations he paid an underage girl for sex and abuse of power he denies all the allegations. a shocking amateur video is showing the brutality of the continued political standoff in the ivory coast seven of them were shot dead while many others were wounded on thursday pro-government forces opened fire at a rally against the incumbent president. is a step down after november's election results and says at least three hundred and sixty five people have died since. the international crews of the main and backup flights to the international space station have been cleared for

the next orbital mission so it's perspex minute but excelled in their final exams at russia's cosmonauts training center in star city make sure you get the blast off from the baikonur the launch pad in kazakhstan at the end of march the mission will be devoted to the fiftieth anniversary of the first night of space yuri gagarin the crew will spend one hundred seventy days on the. chewed u.s. shuttles and three russian cargo ships and a space walk is also planned during vanish. now the latest in our special series of travels across russia is heading your way next and this time the focus is the historic city of jeddah slothful. barty's close up to yuma journeyed some three hundred kilometers northeast of moscow to the millennium old said you have got to stop all it's very free of all

exploration that we've already seen it's a story called protect from culture but one thing we didn't talk about is it's fascination with sports lindsay friends want to check out how the region's landscapes and not just great to look at but to ride on as well. everyone's going crazy for sports in the yaroslavl region of russia just past the roster of professional athletes speeding through the international ski federation's cross country world cup at germany now a center renter sporting leisure situated on the christine banks of the volga river poland's olympic gold medalist just smoked past the other one in the first day of the races this is. the conditionals the feel for the classic but if you spread good next was the men's phrase valentino over herself the first female cosmonaut was blocking the finish. in the kenya it's

a great event of course i want the women steam to be even better than a tease but they do perform well we have a very glad for russia with over four hundred children enrolled here termino offers the average middle class russian a chance to realize their dreams as a sportsman and offers the foreigner a chance to see this place what it really is. locals want it to be the new winter destination one that will fill the surrounding restaurants and hotels this was but you must go to this is a front desk of the city thousands of people come and spend their time here every year and we're short we expand opportunities because this will inevitably affect the number of people who go in for sports in general and again for winter sports in particular. not far away and the historic merchants city of new pledge festivities are just getting underway to celebrate the winter during a season when most cities are pretty quiet these people are making a party of it let's move on yet of the year i've been i swimming for thirty years i

love it there is no need for any of the home full habits that are widespread nowadays. a bass of down on the volga river powered moscow with electricity throughout world war two a collection of churches greet tourist spots on their first stop from moscow from the church of john the baptist to the church of prince dimitri on blood built in commemoration of young prince dimitris gruesome death in fifty ninety one the place is steeped in tradition but it has a way of breaking out of it shout back at them and now between the skiing and the snowmobile in which they were kind enough to teach me they're waiting for a good burn at the end of the world cup races are frightful windstorm the summer of two thousand and ten knocked down ninety percent of the surrounding forest locals retaliated by stacking the fallen wood twenty two meters high then registering it in the guinness book of world records they'll burn it into

a massive bonfire after the final race now that is competitive sportsmanship in the outer soggy region lindsey france r.t. . a nato service member has been killed in a bomb attack in afghanistan brings the total number of a nonsense now killed since general to seventy well down in a grueling war the taliban the coalition is losing more and more troops each in and is afghanistan's drug production spirals out of control the u.s. is also feeling the impact on home soil and merican neighbor had just been hit hard by a drug abuse scandal which had expelled as part of an ongoing investigation what is going to contribute to things the u.s. can see any cashing in on the afghan drug trade but. it's been almost a year since their high seas has acquired a totally new connotation for the u.s.

navy in march two thousand and ten it was the beginning of the corruption of the u.s. naval academy at annapolis by a synthetic drugs since then dozens of the native new chipman have been separated or expelled from their cabin unfortunately it was not an exception and neither for the u.s. navy nor for other branches of the u.s. armed forces so in a way the latest drug abuse investigation is only in a tip of the eyes of the of the per knishes and negative influence of the american involvement in afghanistan indeed what could motivate future us navya leaders to buy and to resale the drugs among their peers there it could be several reasons for such a reckless and criminal action and most of this is that the us navy are jealous of the us marines who are enjoying the poppy fields in helmand and kandahar and as

a result they just fall back on the artificial stuff situation of the organic murray however it did legitimize all kinds of criminal activity in osa legitimize the cult of impunity and profiteering and that is probably a big hidden agenda of the us open ended commitment to afghanistan. coming soon here an aussie for emotional juice delves into the history of jewelry in russia and finds that there are always and kills best friend before that so i'll be back with a recap of our top stories stay with us live here in moscow a nazi. that

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