out of seared with aerial support from nato british tornado jets have fired cruise missiles at his command and control bunker in the town regarded as kentucky's last stronghold the nato bombings come despite previous statements from be lines that it wasn't assisting rebels in their hunt for kate upton 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 r.t. as maria 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 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 office 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 are even sad that

they've cornered khadafi and the spin headline is. 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 many tanks burned cars actually. also

go to fueling that the rebels are the only people left in the cities we've been driving through abandoned empty lego cities. that was marie for national reporting from syria meanwhile the race for levy is vast oil wells is gathering momentum states who work together during massive nato airstrikes are now working against each other and the battle to secure a lucrative contract but as r.t. sara 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. that three hundred million dollars from turkey is discussions of bound about the future of a pace could definitely libya is the money that's been talking the loudest governments have a strong interest in. opening up business for. everybody

. it leads 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 under the gadhafi 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. just coming to an end the borderline between. the problems well for the gadhafi family and the state were not very clear so of it's hard to see how much of this money a direct in the nation of gadhafi of wealth and how much of it was actually. could be categorized as libyan assets the gadhafi 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 kids aping the floodgates to new corruption is now a lot of opportunities and everybody's trying to. you know it's sort of. trying to exploit this war. everybody lucrative oil gas and infrastructure projects to follow as the war torn country rebuilds ever . one it seems wants a slice of the action a war is the moment of opportunity of making profits and war is nowadays indispensable for the western economies western interest 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. carolus

pascoe bar says nato is selling the story of a rebel victory to the world when in fact a u.s. undercover operation was a driving force in removing colonel gadhafi this story from the beginning was our chippie responsibility to protect that was the basis for a un resolution one nine seventy three there is the basis 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 any 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 just 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 on 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. a journalist pepe escobar there coming on nato's role in the levy a conflict. fresh diplomatic efforts to and the ongoing 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 losses 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 draft resolution which will be an alternative to the resolution that the u.s. and european representatives are putting together the 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 we are forced 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 and leaning exclusively on

the syrian government that doesn't have anything about the need for dialogue doesn't cut is 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. to achieve by that 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 all supped 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 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 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. there reporting from washington watching r.t. live from moscow still have for you this hour a 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 the 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 have been 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 beating the challenge of two rivals the early election was triggered by the sudden death of presidents are going about gosh in may after cancer treatment there's much at stake for a 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 effort to billy says attack on south and other caucasus republic. the fallout from the mass riots across in one has pushed prison populations there to

a record high even cell they've still found a space to jail a world war two veteran incarcerated simply for recording a court hearing but as artie's laura amis 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 and 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 recoding 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 it was because caesar covering the corruption

that the judiciary you see the frown upon a scarf is no stranger to the legal system he won a case in the european court of human rights bombings hearings yet with 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 persecution of 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 nine very worried this is an attempt to gag an elderly gentleman may not always be right but. has a right to be here luckily for scott he has friends with knowledge of the will and there to pull him nobody supported the poor his case to the boil court of justice

but they don't feel justice is being served to heaven meanwhile claims he's being denied it and 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 a description going on every day in every poll released on the visit which outraged . 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 while new york is bracing itself for a what could be a historic storm as approaching hurricane irene as forced 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 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 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 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 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 and 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

morning important reporting there from new york city well they're still. when i had for a year and a program here in r t including foundling matters close up team 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 are withheld sex from their husbands to get a road built we ask people in new york city if they are 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 eighty years the us documents as the by building aircraft carriers missiles and developing cyber warfare beijing could potentially destabilize asia but khan hallinan an expert on asian military affairs

believes america has a cell interest in creating a fuss around china there's a lot of hype going on right now in the united states and and some of their views 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 to 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 been tested keep in mind they have one of the aircraft carrier which is one half the sorry 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 are nowhere near the level they would need to challenge the united states to fence.

that was called a con helen 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 have quaters in the nigerian capital abuja it happened on friday when a car rammed through two security gates despite guards opened opening fire at least eighteen people were killed in the suicide bombing while dozens were injured some of them critically a powerful blast destroyed the lower floors of the buildings. next it was government is offering a two point four million dollar reward for information about a deadly raid on a casino they attack in the city of monterrey left over fifty people dead and many more injured dozens were trapped inside and show when gunmen 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 he had known how many over ninety were safely rescued from the passenger ship that went down in waters off so always yolland reports say those on board were heading home to celebrate the end of the fasting month of ramadan this is or to you live from moscow and will continue to explore russia in the latest in our close up series looking at life in 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 abroad than 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 and russia there are 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 kind of be trusted to do so so this is something that to be solved on a social level general social problems that cause these children to be taken away and how can they be tackled so it's not necessarily something that either an individual or an individual part of russia can provide but then the same time here 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 all we can do is find them a new home and that's what i tried to do as you can see my report. in russia it's hard enough to find a new family for healthy all phones 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 orphanage 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 on the main reasons for their success. that it was a cuddly id. as a matter how good the 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 love 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 for the far new families for these children are commendable but others are only so much that an orphanage can do to solve the problem of adoption that cost them and not only adopted four children from orphanage number one but also sits on an adoptive parents committee. 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. i learned who's fourteen so she was betrayed by her parents and those who promised

a doctor and never did. she finally found your group when you're in the home you are always just a part of the group but here in the family you're needed by someone there is no tenderness i'm happy. 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. region. and our teacher com our website 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 crunch numbers as growth plummets and that surges find out why it's fear planned government cuts could soon sand riders to advance their anger on the streets. i was an engine trouble for armed hijackers a forest a plane to turn back at a moscow airport but a passenger breaking into

a high strip teens find out more about the unexpected in-flight entertainment at r.t. 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 days they deny their husbands sexual favors until a road that connects the or small town to the rest of the country was paved well a remarkable story on the subject for this week's resident laurie harvest. in the strike of crossed legs colombian women with health x. 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 about that so. it will get better gas. that also. i don't know though. i think it's it's just too

good 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. congress has that is so if american women stop having sex do you think it would change things here we would solve the deficit crisis very quickly it 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 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 up to the world that would have me withhold sex my wife i think it's effective tactic. it certainly works there you're 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 weren't sure 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 i got the job done with no violence needed. and shortly we'll bring you the latest from the world of gadgets and high tackles have to recap our top stories in just a few minutes. into

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here show on technology update here on r.g.p. we've got the future covered. last time the close up team was in the movie where the gold rush still gets people talking. this time margi goes to your old region. where the local government is giving power back to the people. where everyone from. the locals turned their land to a tourist paradise wellcome. sure close up on our.

welcome back here with our t. here's a look at the top stories slavery is rattles and they are closing in on pearl cut off his hometown where it's believed he might be hiding meanwhile western countries waste no time in securing big business and a war torn country. russia puts forward a un resolution calling for dialogue to broker peace in syria the document is to counter what is proposed by the u.s. and european states which moscow says is siding with anti-government protesters. and a british court is accused of time trying to gag a world war two veteran eighty five year old has been jailed for without warning court hearing but activists claim the real reason was he's speaking out against corruption and the judiciary. in the weeks.