hometown of sirte with the help of aerial support from nato british tornado jets have fired cruise missiles at his command and control bunker and the town regarded as good as his last stronghold the nato bombing has come despite previous statements from be aligns 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 maria fanaa who is in the capital says many there are now living in constant fear. gadhafi still remains the number one for the rebels and since the beginning of the peroration here in the libyan capital of tripoli we've been hearing numerous reports and we've been hearing numerous statements by the leaders of the rebels that they knew could offer his whereabouts first as you remember they've announced that they've captured say full islam gadhafi his son and then it turns out that he actually hasn't been captured then we've been receiving information that the rebels no way could duffy's

here in tripoli and they even sad that they've corners khadafi and the spin 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 qaddafi 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 khadafi forces. flags. waving everywhere and all the buildings all the walls covered with graffiti say in arabic english and french are welcome to new libya welcome to freely meanwhile remind us of the recent battles everywhere we've seen men. tang's burned cars actually we've

also got a feeling that the rebels are the only people left in the cities we've been driving through abandoned empty lego cities. brave a national reporting there now meanwhile the race for libya's vast oil wells is gathering momentum states who work together during the nato airstrikes are now working against each other in the battle to secure a lucrative contract but as are two sarah first reports it's led to fears 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. all that until three hundred million dollars from turkey is discussions of bound about the future of the pace get deaf ear it's the money that's been talking the loudest governments have a strong interest in. opening up business

and. everybody is racing for its lead foreign minister has denied that 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 courageous trade ties they enjoyed and they get daffy regime but as the money begins to flow to help the national transitional council as it takes power the big question mark remains a very exactly who these fast funds belong to in the states which is coming to an end the borderline between wealth the private wealth office family and the wealth of the state not very clear so of it's hard to see how march of this money direct in the nation of. probably wealth and how much of it was actually. could be categorized as libyan assets because the family were often accused of

using libya's riches as their own personal pocket money now there are concerns that the unfreezing of libyan assets without effective monitoring in the floodgates to new corruption is now a land of opportunity everybody is trying to. you know it's sort of. trying to exploit this war as best everybody believe could 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 and war is nowadays indispensable for western economies western interests are used to leave. you destroying your ability to travel european it's like a vicious circle it's not just italy that have been trying to keep the national transitional council on sight like it or not the many western countries

a place for libya will mean big business. say the land journalist pepe escobar says nato is selling the story of a rebel victory to the world one of fact and u.s. undercover operation was the driving force in removing colonel gadhafi this story from the beginning was our two people responsibility to protect that was the basis for u.n. resolution one nine seventy three there is the basis of the agreement between the u.s. and saudi arabia if we get a resolution based on your fake arab league vault nine countries out of twenty two and you can do it you want with bahrain or in saudi arabia itself but this was the cover story sold to american and european public opinion especially the chinese the russians many people in brazil for that now they're not buying it they know it's a u.s. nato coordinated operation without them there will be no victor this will be a stalemate they'll go for ever and we have the international community sort of basically the atlanta sister powers taking sides in

a civil war so when they knew that they could go warm for months or maybe years on that it's ok let's try to take tripoli in one day and they did it because they blow basically they bombed the whole city and the way towards the city. as journalists have escobar commenting on nato's role in the 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 do 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 being 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 definitely could be more forthcoming in that direction so a very important difference there the washing draft resolution does not put pressure on just one side it calls for dialogue it calls for restraint on both sides and here is more on that from russia's and boy to the united nations who spoke with us earlier if there are some constructive ideas from our colleagues we're prepared to absorb them but of course simply you know marrying the two would be like two different species from two different planets so what we have seen from

our colleagues and others it's completely biased leaning exclusively on the syrian government that doesn't have anything about the need for dialogue doesn't cut it your position for dialogue 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 what our western colleagues are trying to achieve by that the resolution and propose an alternative to that to keep the security council involved but that they have it devolved into. for months russia has been pointing at the problem with the attitude the west of the west towards the dramatic developments in syria moscow says that attitude has been 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 in 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 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 that's going to reporting from washington d.c. they're all you watching r t coming to live from moscow still have for you this hour hurricane irene is showing its strengths new york braces itself for a historic storm was evacuated from the city as well as airports and public

transport shut down. and gone reports china will be a leading world military power and within the next decade or so find out why it's so concerned. of people of the caucasus republic of a posse i have been voting for a new president and it looks like they've settled on their choice for women every day their shows vice president alexander has won more than fifty percent of votes in the presidential election beating the challenge of two rivals early elections triggered by the sudden death of president in may after cancer treatment. there's much at stake for a pass' new leader as a republican needs to rebuild following its long five are in a panic from georgia russia recognize a region sovereignty in two thousand and eight amid fears violence could break out after tbilisi is attack on south a city in another caucasus republic. the fallout from the mass riots

across england has pushed prison populations there to a record high so they've still found space to jail a world war two veteran incarcerated simply for recording a court hearing but as artie's laurent 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 they'll be languishing alongside eighty five year old norman scar he played 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 season covering the corruption of 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 all heard behind closed doors and recording and taking photographs is forbidden unlike in other e.u. countries scarth attends demonstrations where he shouts about corruption in the police and judiciary saying lawyers 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 something called freedom of expression that is people's right to speak out about what they see as wrong as long as they're telling the truth and i'm very worried this is an attempt to gag an elderly gentleman may not always be right but he has a right to be here. luckily for scoff he has friends with knowledge of the law and

they're acting for him nobody supported them for his case 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 chill medication in prison according to reports conditions in leeds prison. 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 jail as its troops are going on every day and every call the release long before we try. 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 laura and it's london. new york is bracing itself for a 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 r.t. is more important i explains how people are preparing themselves. 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 pm 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 that are very close to the water as of twelve pm all public transportation will

come to a 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 were really taking these warnings and these forecasts seriously because the last time this city experienced our 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 ramberg now reporting there from new york city for us are you watching. live from moscow there is plenty have for you and the program including it says a few hundreds of colombian 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 where children with physical mental or psychological disabilities are being helped to find new families . all that coming to later in the program before that though the patagonia 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 destabilize asia 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 do with internal matters too was a push to cut the military budget the arms companies and the military assured digging in their heels and so there is 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 one of the aircraft carrier which is one half the size of american aircraft carriers in the millikan's have an nimitz class aircraft carrier so even if they build one or two or even three more aircraft carriers they're nowhere

near the level they would need to challenge the united states students. 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 military has admitted responsibility for the deadly attack on the un's have quaters 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 powerful blast destroyed the lower floors of the building. but mexico's 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 choked when gunmen burst into the venue sprayed it with fuel and set it on fire so already 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 the passenger ship that went down in waters off the ways 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 s. thousand kilometers from moscow to the city of cure off it's a place full of community spirit where for many people family comes first and.

reports the city is leading the way in a pioneering project to find homes for the orphans. personal tragedy added difficulty to overcome being an orphan is also a social problem and russia there are thousands of thousands of orphans but the 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 that needs to be solved on a social level general social problem the for these children to be taken away and 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 then the same in the care of region to try to say ok we're being dealt with all these orphans we're receiving all these people but at least we can do it for them a new home and that's what they're trying to do as you can see more appalled. in russia it's hard enough to find

a new family for healthy orphans it's even harder for children like these all of them diagnosed with serious physical mental or psychological disabilities. but here at the care of all finnish number one they manage it while in russia there are currently hundred and fifty thousand children who haven't been adopted here ninety eight percent of all orphans find a new family the four to six. so many orphanages exist by themselves in isolation we are reaching out to the potential parents and the authorities and working with them the first course of action is to try and place the children back with their biological parents who often give them up scared off by the diagnoses that often it shows that with the right care these children can lead normal lives the 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 are on the main reasons for their success. that it doesn't matter how good. facilities are here or 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 as much as we have here but i don't think 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 to orphanages track record is anything to go by they'll soon find a family there may care for a new families for these children are commendable but others only so much that an orphanage can do to solve the problem of adoption that the customer 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 attitudes towards the children it's not a case of money where an average family all of the state support is really there

you just have to love the children themselves alone or who's fourteen says she was betrayed by her parents and those who promised to adopt her and never did then she finally found a home so you could open you in the home you were always just a part of the group but here in the family you are needed by someone there is more tenderness more love i'm happy. with the last. so often it does make an effort to connect with the world outside and adoption becomes more widespread and society will be more happy endings like this one. of. your own region. well remember there is more on our website r.t. dot com we've got a lot more stories and analysis for use there but here's a taste of what we've got there for you today france is finding it hard to crunch the numbers as growth plummets dad 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 at a moscow airport by a passenger breaking into a mile high striptease find out more about the unexpected in-flight entertainment telecom. 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 deny 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 of crossed legs colombian women with help facts to get a road paved what issue would you withhold sex for this week let's talk about that

right now the economy we need to do a little something about that so. that we'll get better gas. that also. i don't know though up close and i think he says he's just too big to still make six we've been friends maybe for world peace or to end hunger or something like that but if it was ending now for a road up the road if it were ending hunger around the world that you could unite yeah that would be good nothing nothing no i don't think so. what about if it ended for. condi mention. you know i'm sorry the deficit. in congress has that so if american women stopped having sex do you think it would change things here we would solve the deficit crisis very quickly what was going to do it was going to do and if that's the only way to get their money motivated i can understand it or get me on

the show pretty quick is there any thing that you would withhold sex for are you kidding no. there's not a problem being of the world that would have me withhold sex for my wife i think it's effective tactic. it certainly works there yes 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 without socks to get something done no no i don't think we have the same leverage i mean if it were a cure i think it's a little crazy but i mean hey you got to 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 balance needed. you're watching artsy and feel about his show on the money it will be coming your

way very shortly before that though i'll bring you a recap of our top stories stay with us. last time the close up team was in our movie where the gold rush still gets people

hiked up. this time margi goes to cure old region. where the local government is giving power back to the people. where every orphan will be adopted. the locals turn their land into a tourist paradise well come to fruition should close up on our gene. wealthy british style. that's not on the right. price. market. why no one should really happening to the global economy with much stronger or no holds barred look at the global financial headlines and

tune in to conjure reports. you're watching are you live from moscow a look at the top stories levy is rebels and nato were closing in on colonel gadhafi his hometown words believed he might be hiding it while western countries waste no time in securing big business and a war torn country. russia puts forward a u.n. resolution calling for dialogue to broker peace in syria the document is to counter a document proposed by the u.s. and european states which moscow says is siding with anti-government protesters. and a british court is accused of trying to gather world war two veteran eighty five year old has been jailed for recording a court hearing but activists claim the real reason was.