libya's rebels and nato are closing in on colonel gadhafi as hometown words believe he might be hiding while western countries wasted no time in securing big business and a war torn country. a battle that the u.n. russia calls for a dialogue to broker a peace in syria accusing the u.s. and european states of showing by siding with anti-government protesters. a british court is accused of gagging a world war two veteran by jailing him for speaking out against corruption in the judiciary.

and i am in the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie welcome to the program the levy rebels are advancing on colonel gadhafi is hometown of sirte where the help of aerial support from nato british tornado jets have fired cruise missiles at least command and control bunker and the town regarded as good as his last stronghold the nato bombings come despite previous statements from the lines that it wasn't assisting rebels in their hunt for khadafy meanwhile hundreds of bodies have been found abandoned at a hospital in tripoli after staff fled the facility as rebels advanced there's also been intense fighting near tripoli's international airport artie's marie ivanovna who is in the capital says many there are now living in constant fear. khadafi still remains the goal number one for the rebels and since the beginning of the commission here live in capital tripoli we've been hearing numerous reports and we've been hearing numerous statements by the leaders all the rebels of a new khadafi some. first as you remember they've announced that they've captured

safely slanted of his son and then it turns out that he actually hasn't been captured then we've been receiving information that the rebels know he's here in tripoli and the ravens had blood they've corners khadafi and that's been in headlines. many international news channels for quite a while but it actually didn't end with any concrete detail and can create a success as well we are receiving reports that the rebels have flooded the streets of tripoli trying to hunt down khadafy 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 kentucky's forces. 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 meanwhile reminders of the recent battles everywhere we've seen many bands and tanks burned cars actually we've also got a feeling that the rebels are the only people left in libya because of the species we've been driving through looped abandoned empty like ghost cities. brave national reporting there meanwhile the race for libya's vast oil wealth is gathering momentum states who work together during the nato airstrikes are now working against each other in a battle to secure a lucrative contract that is or at least sara first reports it's led to fear is that a new regime in libya could easily slide into corruption. half a billion dollars from italy now a whopping one point five billion from the u.n. that's on to pursue three hundred million dollars from turkey it's questions abound about the future of the case here it's the money that's been talking aloud

governments have a strong interest in. opening up business for. everybody is reason. foreign minister has tonight there's a race on with france to be the first on the ground to restart business in libya but the italians have me clear their eagerness to maintain the extremely close trade ties they enjoyed under the gadhafi regime that is the money begins to flow to help the national transitional council and it takes power but the question mark remains a great sack these fast funds belong in the states which is coming to an end the borderline between wealth the problem well for the good of his family and the wealth of the state were not very clear so it's hard to see how much of this money was directly in the nation of the past as well and how much of it

was actually. could be categorized as libyan assets because he family were authentic keys of easing libya's riches is their own personal pocket money now there are concerns that the unfreezing of libyan assets without effect is monitoring key to aid in the floodgates to new corruption. everybody's trying to. you know it's sort of. trying to exploit this war to feed everybody police have oil gas and infrastructure projects to follow as the war torn country rebuilds and. everyone it seems wants a slice of the action a war is a moment of opportunity of making profits by war is nowadays indispensable for western economies western interests. you destroy your appeal because for every

european it's like. it's not just italy that have been trying to keep the national transitional council on sight like it or not many western countries pay for libya or mean big business that. journalist pappas kabar says nato is selling a story of a rebel victory to the world when in fact a u.s. undercover operation was the driving force and removing colonel gadhafi this story from the beginning was our two people responsibility to protect their as the basis for a 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 vault nine countries out of twenty two and you can do if you want with the arena in saudi arabia itself but this was the cover story sold to american and european public opinion especially the chinese the russians many people in brazil for their they're not buying it they know it's

a us need to coordinate our operation without them there will be no this will be a stalemate will go for ever and we have international community sort of basically atlanticist powers he can sides in a civil war so windy knew that they could go on for months or years on end it's ok let's try to take tripoli in one day and they did it because they blew basically they bombed the whole city and away towards the sea. as journalist curtis who are commenting on new year's role in libya. french diplomatic efforts to and own going violence in syria have been made by russia as it's introduced its own draft u.n. resolution moscow is calling on both sides in the country to engage in dialogue and for president bashar to lawsuits to speed up promised reforms or he's going to gun is across the latest. it looks like we're going to see a battle of two different versions of resolutions on syria the u.n. security council russia is putting forward its draft resolution which will be an

alternative to the resolution that the u.s. and european representatives are putting together a letter has already been dubbed as sanctions resolution the u.s. and european leaders want to put more pressure on the syrian government whereas the russian version of the resolution makes two very important points first of all it cost to the syrian government to expedite the implementation of the reforms that president assad has announced in order to effectively address the legitimate aspirations and concerns of the syrian people and second it urges the syrian opposition to engage in political dialogue with the syrian authorities about what reforms to carry out in the country the syrian opposition back on people be more forthcoming in that direction so a very important difference there the russian draft resolution does not put pressure on just one side it calls for dialogue it costs for restraint on both sides and here is more on that from russia's and going to the united nations who spoke with us earlier if there are some constructive ideas from our colleagues were

prepared to absorb them but of course simply you know marrying the two would go to different species from two different planets so what we're seeing from. colleagues the u.k. and others it's completely biased on the leaning exclusively on the syrian government that doesn't have anything about the need for dialogue doesn't encourage your position for in fact our concern is that it's going to push the the more extreme the more destructive elements of the syrian opposition towards. even stronger efforts in order to topple the syrian government so that's why we don't like at all. to achieve by that the resolution of and i propose an alternative to keep the security council involved but to have a vote to do. for months russia has been pointing at the problem with the attitude the west of the west towards the dramatic developments in syria also says that.

exclusively about exerting pressure on one of the parties namely the syrian government and president which effectively sends the wrong message to the syrian opposition prompting them to believe that if they remain insistent on the situation keeps getting critical the west will come to help them you know the way it happened did leave on a number of occasions the russian resolution calls on the syrian authorities to allow unhindered access to international humanitarian agencies and to fully cooperate with the un commissioner for human rights and now as for how the resolution how far the resolution can go both russia and the u.s. have veto power as we know along with china the u.k. and france and that means whatever resolution comes out at the end of the day it has to be acceptable for at least all of the five permanent members of the u.n. security council if they don't agree there is going to be no resolution it's going to reporting from washington d.c. there are you watching r.t.

coming to live from moscow still have for you this hour hurricane irene is showing its strength and your braces itself for a historic storm was evacuated from the city as well as airports and all the transport shut down. and gone reports china will be an even world military power it was in the next decade so find out why it's so concerned. the people of the caucuses republic of a posse i have been voting for a new president and it looks like they've settled upon their choice preliminary data shows vice president alexander has one more than two percent of votes in a presidential election beating the challenge of two rivals the early election was triggered by the sudden death of president syria gosh in may after cancer treatment there is much at stake for a posse as new leader as a republican needs to rebuild following its long pfeifer in a panic from georgia russia recognize the region sovereignty in two thousand and

eight amid fears violence could break out in a positive after tuesday's attack on south the sadia another caucasus republic. the fallout from the mass riots across england has pushed prison populations there to a record high still found space to jail a world war two veteran cars rated simply for recording a court hearing but as artie's lorimer reports there could be other motives behind his imprisonment. british prisons are full to bursting the courts are working overtime sending young people to jail for their role in the recent riots in england if they're sent to leeds prison will be languishing alongside eighty five year old norman scar he plied the arctic sea cheering the second world war serving his country taking essential supplies to the soviet union on the most dangerous journey in the world and now he's serving six months in prison on the whim of

a british judge his crime recording a court hearing he said he did it because he's hard of hearing but the judge didn't accept that it was a very harsh sentence and i believe he was because he isn't putting the group in the judiciary you see them frown upon a scarth is no stranger to the legal system he won a case in the european court of human rights banning secret hearings yet still some cases in england are heard behind closed doors and recording and taking photographs is forbidden unlike in other e.u. countries scott attends demonstrations where he shouts about corruption in the police and judiciary saying lawyers the police and the courts are in cahoots and regularly persecution gag those who disagree with them that's why m.p. john hemming suspects the judge was trying to shut him up we have in theory in this country called freedom of expression not as people write about what they see as

wrong as long as the telling the truth and i'm very worried this is an attempt to gag an elderly gentleman who may not always be right but he has a right to. luckily for scott he has friends with knowledge of the law and they're acting for him normally the poor to the poor his case here to the boiled court of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to heaven meanwhile god claims he's being denied it then chilled medication in prison according to reports conditions in leeds prison but the war veteran can't get any exercise because he's unable to walk for the entire hour allocated scott also says he's being denied access to a lawyer by his jailers troops are going on every day every fall the release like this what would you. norman scarth has vowed to keep fighting to expose corruption just as he fought all those years ago to keep fascism out of his country the irony is the country he fought for is now the one he's fighting against you know and it's

arty london. new york is bracing itself for what could be a historic storm is approaching hurricane irene has forced the mayor to order evacuations from the city public transport including the subway will also be shut down for the first time ever are his more important i explains how people are preparing them selfs. more than eight million new yorkers are preparing for what's expected to be a dangerous and possibly disastrous hurricane on its way to new york city this hurricane is expected to hit new york by nine p. am on saturday evening parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called low rise areas these

are areas all throughout new york are very close to the water as of twelve pm all public transportation will come to walk halt it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to evacuate from their building now up until this point new yorkers weren't really taking these warnings in these forecasts seriously because the last time this city experienced hurricane a very heavy and dangerous hurricane was in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight but as we saw saturday we saw the winds picking up we saw many people rushing to the supermarkets rushing to the stores to stock up on good stock up on food stock up on water some engineers believe that the infrastructure of new york city because it is so old may not be able to withstand the powers of the wind that there may be flooding in tunnels of new york city some airports may be flooded homes possibly

even flooded and or destroyed so at this point everybody is preparing for the worst bracing themselves hoping it's not going to be as bad as forecasted but if it is it is not clear what will be of new york come monday now reporting there from new york city for us are you watching. the life or mosque and there is plenty have for you and the program including a sensitive issue hundreds of columbia women withheld sex from their husbands to get a road built we ask people in new york city they're ready to go to extremes to get what they need. and we visit an orphanage and one russian city worker children with physical mental or psychological disabilities are being helped to find new families . all that coming to later in the program before that they'll the pad on has released a report warning that china is on track to become

a leading world military power in less than eighty years the us document says that by building aircraft carriers missiles and developing cyber warfare but asian could potentially destabilizing a continent an expert on asian military affairs believes america has its own interest in creating the fuss around china there's a lot of hype going on right now in the united states and and some of that is because they want to raise the chinese up so they were big danger that way we can keep a large military footprint in asia but it also has to we can turn now to there's a push to cut the military budget that forms companies and the military assure digging in their heels and shoulders trowing up this kind of chinese bugaboo aircraft carriers this missile which can sink your craft here it's not even tested keep in mind they have long aircraft carrier which is one half the size of american aircraft carriers in the militants have an nimitz class aircraft carrier

so even if they build one or two or even three more at risk areas they're nowhere near the level they would need to challenge the united states. that was khan hall an expert on asian military affairs there now let's have a look at some other stories making headlines around the world islam is the militant group has admitted responsibility for the deadly attack on the u.n. headquarters in the nigerian capital abuja it happened on friday when a car rammed through two security gates despite guards opened fire at least eighteen people were killed in the suicide bombing well dozens were injured some of them critically a car full blast destroyed the lower floors of the building. but the mexican government is offering a two point four million dollars reward for information about a deadly raid on a casino the attack in the city of monterrey left over fifty people dead

a man more injured dozens were trapped inside and showed one gunman burst into the venue sprayed it with fuel and set it on fire authorities suspect the attack was connected to organized crime. at least ten people have died after an overcrowded ferry sank off eastern indonesia others are feared missing but it's not yet known how many over ninety were safely rescued from a passenger ship that went down in waters off always the island reports say those on board were heading home to celebrate the end of the fasting month of ramadan. you're watching are to you live from moscow now we continue to explore russia and the latest in our close up series looking at live in all corners of the country. and this week we're taking you as thousand kilometers from moscow to the city of

here up it's a place full of community spirit were for many people family comes first and authorities eager grogginess reports the city is leading the way in a pioneering project to find homes for the orphans. personal tragedy and difficulty to overcome being an orphan there's also social problems and russia thousands of thousands of orphans but in fact most of them have parents or relatives outside of the orphanage but these people simply do not want to look after them or cannot be trusted to do so so this is something to be solved on a social level where the general social problems caused these children to be taken away how can they be tackled so it's not necessarily something that either an individual orphanage or an individual part of russia can provide but they will save the care of region by trying to say ok we're being dealt with all these orphans we're receiving all these people but at least all we can do is provide them

a new home and that's what i tried to do as you can see my records. in russia it's hard enough to find a new family for healthy all phones it's even harder for children like these all been diagnosed with serious physical mental or psychological disability. here at kira's orphanage number one they manage it well and russians are currently a hundred and fifty thousand children who haven't been adopted here ninety eight percent of all orphans find a new family before the six. or so many orphanages exist by themselves in isolation we are reaching out to the potential parents and the authorities and working with them. first course of action is to try and place the children back with logical parents who often give them up scared off by the diagnoses often and show that with the right care these children can lead normal lives that parents have to prove

their attitude has changed for other potential adopters their educational courses and ongoing medical support all basics in the west but hardly universal in russia yet staff say these on the main reasons for their success. but it doesn't matter how good the silly. these are here and what care the children receive we all of the staff here still know than an orphanage is no substitute for a family a quick straw poll shows us much more of that our young people there are three of us here me and my two sisters we really want to be adopted by the same family but not everyone wants three kids if the orphanage is track record is anything to go by they'll soon find a family. where the far new families for these children are commendable but under is only so much that an orphanage can do to solve the problem of adoption costello not only adopted four children from orphanage number one but also sits on an adoptive parents committee yes. i think the problem is the social attitude towards

the children it's not a case of money where an average family all the state support is really there you just have to know of the children themselves alone it is fourteen says she was betrayed by her parents and those who promised to adopt her and of it did then she finally found a home. in the home we were always just a part of a group but here in the family you are needed by someone there is not tenderness more love i'm happy. with the last. so often it does make an effort to connect with the world outside an adoption becomes more widespread in society they'll be more happy endings like this one you are ordinary . kiran. well remember there is more on our website r.t. dot com we've got a lot more stories and analysis for you there but here's a taste of what we've got there for you today frances finding it hard to crunch the

numbers as growth plummets debt surges find out why it's feared planned government cuts could soon sand riders to band their anger on the streets. and it wasn't engine trouble or armed hijackers that forced a plane to turn back to moscow airport by passenger breaking into a mile high street find out more about the unexpected in-flight entertainment dot com. now colombian authorities have agreed to comply with demands for road improvements after hundreds of women went on a sex strike for thirty eight days they denied their husbands sexual favors until a road that connects their small town to the rest of the country was paved a remarkable story on the subject for this week's resident with laura harvest.

in the strike across legs colombian women with health x. to get a road paved what is she would you withhold sex for this week let's talk about that right now the economy we need to loosen up about that so. that we get better gas. that also. a lot of the places i think he says he says to peter to still make sex with in france maybe for world peace or to end hunger or something like that but if it was ending in africa for wrote if it were ending hunger around the world that you could unite here that would be good nothing nothing i don't think so. what about if it ended war. can't imagine. i'm sorry. to say. it in congress.

so if american women that's having facts do you think it would change things here we would solve the deficit crisis very quickly is going to do it was going to do and if that's the only way to get their money motivated i can understand it would get me on the show pretty quick is there any thing that you would withhold sat score are you kidding no. there's not a problem in the world that would help me with my wife i think it's an effective tactic. it certainly works there good for them do you think it would work anywhere in the world yes i think men and women interact the same way everywhere do you think it would work if men with health like to get something done no no i don't think we have the same leverage i mean if it weren't sure i think it's a little crazy but i mean hey you gotta do what you gotta do is no crazier than going to war and shooting people to get things done that is. very true whether or not you agree with these women tactic the bottom line is it got the job done with no violence needed.

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