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

is not am in the russian capital you're watching r t thanks for being with us the libyan rattles are advancing on colonel gadhafi hometown of sirte was aerial support from nato british tornado jets have fired cruise missiles at his command and control bunker in the town regarded as khadafi last stronghold the nato bombings come despite previous statements from be lines that it wasn't assisting rebels in their hunt for kit upbeat meanwhile hundreds of bodies have been found abandoned at a hospital in tripoli after staff fled the facility as rebels advance there's also been intense fighting near tripoli's international airport archy's marie for national who's in the capital says many there are now living in constant fear. khadafi still remains the number one for the rebels and since the beginning of the curation 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 on his whereabouts first as you remember they've announced that they've

captured safe conduct his son and then it turns out that he actually hasn't been captured then we've been receiving information that the rebels know duffy's here in tripoli and the ravens had that they've cornered spin headlines. many international news channels for quite a while but it actually didn't and with any concrete detail you can create a success as well we are receiving reports like the rebels have flooded the streets of tripoli trying to hand 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 june and july when the western part of the country had been controlled by kentucky's forces new leaders flags. waving everywhere and all the buildings all the walls covered with crappy cheese 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 many hang spurns cars actually we've also got a feeling that the rebels are the only people left in most of these cities we've been driving through loot vans and empty lego cities. that was very international reporting from syria meanwhile the race for libya's vast oil wells is gathering momentum states who work together during massive nato airstrikes are now working against each other in a battle to secure a look at energy contracts that is already sarah ferguson ports and it's led to fears that a near regime in libya could easily slide into corruption. half a billion dollars from italy now a walk in one point five billion from the u.n. . three hundred million dollars from turkey it's a scotians a band about the future of a case a death in libya it's the money it's been talking the loudest governments

a strong interest in. opening up business for. everybody. if you need foreign minister has denied there's a race on with france to be the first on the ground to restart business in libya and the italians have me clear their eagerness to maintain the extremely close trade ties they enjoyed and they get the regime it is the money begins to flow to help the national transitional council as it takes power but the question mark remains a very exactly that is fast funds belong in the states which is coming to an end the borderline between wealth the problem is family and the wealth of the state were not very clear so it's hard to see hard part of this money was a direct in the nation of darkness wealth of wealth and how much of it was actually

. could be categorized as libyan assets because that the family were authentic cheesed of using libya's riches as their own personal pocket money now there are concerns that the unfreezing of libyan assets without effective monitoring key to aid in the floodgates to new corruption lead is now a land of opportunity everybody's trying to i think you know it's sort of. been trying to exploit this war as best record. oil gas and infrastructure projects to follow as the war torn country rebuilds every. one it seems wants a slice of the action a war is a moment of opportunity of making profits a war is not what is indispensable for western economies western industries. you destroy europe you think it's very european it's like a vicious or it's not just italy that have been trying to keep the national

transitional council i. like it or not but many western countries a place for libya i mean big business fair fair. careless ask of ours as nato is selling a story of a rebel victory to the world when in fact a u.s. undercover operation was a driving force in removing gadhafi this story from the beginning was our two people responsibility to protect there as the basis for u.n. resolution one nine seventy three there is that we that 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 bahrain or in saudi arabia itself but this was a 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 u.s. nato coordinated operation without them there will be no veto disappear still nato

will go for ever and we have the international community sort of these italy the atlanta sister powers taking sides in a civil war so when they knew that they could cool and for months or years and that is ok let's try to pick tripoli in one big and they did it because they all these are good people in the whole city and away towards the city. journalist risk of our there coming on nails role in the levy a conflict. fresh diplomatic efforts to and the on 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 of the country to engage in dialogue and for president bashar lawsuits to speed up promised reforms artie's guidance to count as 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 graphic 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 thank chance resolution the u.s. and european leaders trying 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 russian 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

go to different species from two different planets so what we have seen from. colleagues u.k. and others it's completely biased on the leading exclusively on the syrian government that doesn't have anything but the need for dialogue doesn't go to 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. an even stronger efforts in order to topple the syrian government so that's why we don't like at all what the chords are trying to achieve that result and i propose an alternative to to keep the security council involved but the brevity of the. for months russia has been pointing at the problem with the attitude the west of the west wants the group to develop in syria moscow says that attitude has been exclusively about

exerting pressure on one of the parties namely the syrian government and praised the assault which effectively sends the wrong message to the syrian opposition prompting them to believe that if they remain insistent in this situation kids getting critical of the west will come to help them you know the way it happened in libya 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. how the resolution how far the resolution can go both watcher and the u.s. have veto power as we know it 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. there reporting from washington what you know if you live from moscow still have for you this hour gathering storm new york braces itself for historic hurricane irene with

evacuations from the city as well as airports and public transport being shut down . and pentagon report says china will be a leading world military power within the next decade find out why it's so concerned. the people of the caucuses republican voting for a new president and it looks like they've settled upon their choice for luminary data shows vice president alexander won more than fifty percent of votes in the presidential election being the challenge of two rivals the early election was triggered by the sudden death of presidents are given doctors in may after cancer treatment there's much at stake for a positive new leader as the republican needs to rebuild following its long fight for independence from georgia russia recognize the region sovereignty in two thousand and eight and it fears violence could break out in the efforts billy says attach the city or another republic. the fallout from the

mass riots across in one has pushed prison populations there to a record high even sell they've still found a space to jail a world war two veteran and carson rated simply for recording a court hearing but as it is lore and it 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 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's a recovering the corruption of the judiciary you see them frown upon me scott is no stranger to the legal system he won a case in the european court of human rights a bombing the secret hearings yet still some cases in england or 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 persecuting those who disagree with them that's why m.p. john hemming suspects the judge was trying to shut him are we having 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 get an elderly gentleman who may not always be right

at. luckily for scott he has friends with knowledge of the will and they're going to pull him norman stop supporting the poor his take here to the boiled court of justice but they don't feel tough this is big stuff to have meanwhile got 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 jailers spirit to do it on every day before leaving the sleazy religious school. 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 or new york is bracing itself for a what could be a historic storm as approaching hurricane irene as force the mayor to order evacuations from the city public transport including the subway will also be shut down for the first time ever artie's marina portnoy explains how people are preparing themselves. more than eight million new yorkers are preparing for what's expected to be again tourists and possibly disastrous hurricane on its way to new york city this hurricane is expected to hit new york by nine p. am 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 there are very close to the water as of twelve pm all public transportation will come to our home it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to a vapid week 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 by 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. reporting there from new york city well there. plenty had three years of program here in r t including foundering matters closer to reports on how an orphanage in the care of regions helps children with physical mental and psychological disabilities find a new home. and after hundreds of columbia women withheld sex from their husbands to get a road built we asked people in new york city if they're ready to go to such extremes. find out later in the program before that though the pentagon has released a report warning that china is on track to become a leading world military power in less than eight years and u.s.

documents as the by building aircraft carriers missiles and developing cyber warfare beijing could potentially destabilize asia mcconnell and an expert on asian military affairs believes america has its own interests in creating a 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 to the real big danger that we can keep a large military footprint in asia but it also has to do than term damage to its push to cut the military budget the arms companies and the military reassure 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 lovely aircraft carrier which is one half the stars of american aircraft carriers you know militants have an nimitz class aircraft carrier

so even if they build one or two or even three more not rest areas they're nowhere near the level they would need to challenge the united states defense. that was called con ho in an expert on asian military affairs there now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world and islamist militant groups submitted responsibility for the deadly attack on the un's headquarters and then a cheer in 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 dozens were injured some of them critically a powerful blast destroyed the lower floors of the buildings. those government is offering a two point four million dollar reward for information about a deadly raid on a casino they tack 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. 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 so always the island reports say those on board were heading home to celebrate the end of the fasting month of ramadan this is art you live from moscow and will continue to explore russia in the latest in our close series looking at life and all corners of the country. and this week we're taking us thousand kilometers from moscow to the city of cure off it's a place full of community spirit were for many people family comes first as it's

easier grog reports the city is leading the way in a pioneering project to find homes for orphans. apart from being a personal tragedy and a difficulty over being an orphan there's also a social problem in russia there are thousands of thousands of orphans what in fact most of them have parents or relatives outside of the orphanage but these people simply do not want to look after them all kind of trusted to do so so this is something that will be solved on a social level general social problems that cause 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 in the same region to try to say ok we're being dealt with all these often to be receiving all these people but at least all we can do is find all of them a new home and that's what they're trying to do as you can see. 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. 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 in four to six times the chela so many orphanages exist by themselves in isolation we are reaching out to the potential parents and the authorities and working with. the first course of action is to try and place the children back with logic and parents who often give them up scared off the diagnoses often and show 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 bees on the main reasons for their success. as a matter how good the facilities are here or what care the children receive we are all of the staff here still know that an orphanage is no substitute for a family a quick straw poll shows as much. 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 if the orphanage is track record is anything to go by bills soon find a family. of five new families for these children are commendable but others only so much but a lot going to can do to solve the problem of adoption that cost them not only adopted four children from 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. fourteen so she was betrayed by her parents and those who promised. she finally found. poignant in the home you're always just a part of the group but here in the family you are needed by someone there is no tenderness i'm happy. so often we just make an effort to connect with the world. and the option becomes more widespread in society. and things like this one. and com our web site has a lot more stories and analysis for you and here's a taste of what we've got for you there today branson is finding it hard to crime shows on versus growth plummets and their searches find out why it's fear when government cuts could soon sand riders to advance their anger on the streets. was

an engine trouble for r. and hijackers a force of planes turned bad at a moscow airport but a passenger breaking into. teams find out more about the unexpected in-flight entertainment. now colombian authorities have agreed to comply with demands for road improvements after hundreds of women went on a sex strike for thirty days they deny their husbands sexual favors until a road that connects near small town to the rest of the country must pay their remarkable story on the subject for this week's resident laurie harvest. in the strike across legs colombian women withheld facts 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. so. that will get better. that also. a lot of the places i think he says he's too stupid to still need six weeks in france maybe for world peace or to end hunger or something like that but if it was that ending. up or wrote if you 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 for. fundamental. i'm sorry the deficit. in congress. so if american women that's having stacked do you think it would change things here we would solve the deficit crisis very quickly to do it was going to do and if that's the only way to get their man motivated i can understand it would 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 at the world that would have me with my wife i think it's effective tactic. it certainly works bare here 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 facts to get something done no no i don't think we have the same leverage i mean if it were sure i think it's a little crazy but i mean hey you gotta do what you got it 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 in the. and charlie will bring in the latest from the world of gadgets and height at its

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