holt's to violence in libya as the rebels are advancing on colonel gadhafi hometown of syria with aerial support from nato british tornado jets have fired cruise missiles at its command and control bunker in the town regarded this get out these last stronghold the nato bombings come despite previous statements from the alliance 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 advance there's also been intense fighting near tripoli's international airport artie's marina maria fanaa who's in the capital says maddie 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 here in numerous statements by the leaders all of the rebels that they could offer his whereabouts first as you remember they've announced that they've captured safe while islam cut off his son and then it turned out that he

actually hasn't been captured then we've been receiving information that the rebels know where gadhafi is here in tripoli and they even sad that they've cornered khadafi and they spin 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 reminders

of the recent battles everywhere we've seen many tanks burned cars actually we've also got a feeling that the rebels are only people left in most of the cities we've been driving through loopt abandoned empty lego cities. pretty financial reporting there from syria meanwhile the race for libya's vast oil wealth is gathering momentum stayed to work together during a massive nato airstrikes are now working against each other in a battle to secure a lucrative allergy contract but as archie sara for three ports 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 a bound about the future of the case here is the money that's been talking the loudest governments have

a strong interest in. opening up business where. 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 close 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. the problems well for the gadhafi family and the wealth of the state were not very clear so of it's hard to see how much of this money was a direct in the nation of gadhafi as well of wealth and how much of it was actually

. could be categorized as libyan assets to get out 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 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 best everybody lucrative oil gas and infrastructure projects to follow as the war torn country rebuilds. everyone it seems wants a slice of the action a warrior nowadays indispensable for the western economies where a certain distance from you destroying your ability to travel 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. journalist pepe escobar says nato is selling the story of a rebel victory to the world when in fact the u.s. undercover operation was the driving force in removing colonel gadhafi this story from the beginning was our two pete responsibility to protect that was the basis for a u.n. resolution one nine seventy three there is that bathes 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 it if you want with but 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 that matter 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 decile and this is powers taking sides in

a civil war so when they knew that they could do one 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 these are going to bomb the whole city and the way towards. garrulous pepe escobar they're commenting on near zero and the libya's 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 in the country to engage in dialogue and for president to speed up promised reforms are the sky if she can 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 the letter has already being dubbed as thank france resolution the u.s. and european leaders want to put more pressure on the syrian government whereas the

russian version of the resolution makes through 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 boyd to the united nations who spoke with us earlier if there are some constructive ideas from our colleagues. 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 by is. leaning exclusively on the syrian government that doesn't have anything of 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 clothes are trying to achieve by that resolution and propose an alternative to keep the security council involved but the 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 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. i was going to check on the pouring there from washington d.c. . and so i have for this hour here on r t 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

. at a piano gone report says china will be a leading world military power within 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 looks like they've settled upon their choice preliminary data shows vice president alexander on crop as one more than fifty percent of votes in a presidential election meeting the challenge of two rivals the early election was triggered by the sudden death of president sergei bug option may after cancer treatment and there's much at stake for a new leader as a 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 a positive after its release is a tap in south a city or another caucasus republic. the fallout from the mass riots across

england has pushed prison populations there to a record high even so they've still found space to jail a world war two veteran incarcerated simply for recording a court hearing but it's artie's lore and it reports there could be other motives behind his imprisonment. british prisons full to bursting the cool so working overtime sending young people to jail for the role in the recent riots in england. to leave prison languishing alongside eighty five year old norman scarth he played the arctic sea cheering the second world war serving his country taking essential supplies to the. 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

except that it was a very harsh sentence and i believe it 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 of bombing the secret hearings yet still some cases in england all heard behind closed doors and recording and taking photographs is forbidden unlike in all the 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 syria in this country something called freedom of expression not just 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 scott he has friends with knowledge of the will and they're acting for him nobody supported them for 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 essential medication in prison according to reports conditions in leeds prison are bad 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 and schools are going on every day every fall in this life and that is what we tell a school with. 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 emmett's r.t. london. new york is bracing itself for

a what to be and historic storm as 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. 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

there are very close to the water as of twelve pm all public transportation will come to walk home 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 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 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. marina verdant reporting there from new york city and there are so funny had for you on the program here on our living family matter our close up team reports on how an orphanage in the care of regions helps children with physical mantle and psychological disabilities find a new home. and after hundreds of colombian women withheld sex from their husbands to get a road built we asked people in new york if they're ready to go to such extremes. that is coming to you later in the program before that though the pentagon has released a report morning that china is on track to become a leading world military power in less than eight years the us document says that by building aircraft carriers missiles and developing cyber warfare beijing could

potentially destabilize asia but consol in an expert on 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 to push to cut the military budget that harms companies and men and the military i'm sure digging in their heels and so there is trowing up this kind of chinese bugaboo aircraft carriers this missile which can sink aircraft here it's not even been tested keep in mind they have one aircraft carrier which is one half the size of american aircraft carriers in american and militants have an nimitz class aircraft carrier so even if they built one or two or even three more aircraft carriers they're nowhere near the level they would need to challenge the united

states to fence was can how the next bird on an asian military ferrous russia's far east has seen its third shark attack and the space of ten days after a man was savaged while swimming in pacific waters the victim was taken to hospital with his forearm badly injured and suffering once to his body the man had to fire a swimming ban on parts of russia's east coast brought in after the two other recent incidents the first record of shark attacks in the country's history last week saw one man lose both his forearms trying to protect his wife while in another case a sixteen year old diver's leg was severely lacerated hands where the shark or sharks rather is on their way. now let's have a look at some other stories from around the world lomis militant group has admitted responsibility for the deadly attack on the un's headquarters in

a jury in capital it happened on friday when a car rammed through two security gates despite guards opening fire at least eighteen people were killed in a suicide bombing while dozens were injured some of them critically a powerful blast destroyed the lower floors of the building. mexico's 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 with there were fifty people dead a man a 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 the passenger ship that went down in waters off the ways iall and reports say those on board were heading home to

celebrate the end of the fasting month of ramadan. now we 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 here thousand kilometers from moscow to the city of kirov it's a place for community spirit where for many people family comes first as. reports the city is leading the way in a pioneering project to find homes for the orphans. the 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 parents or relatives outside of the orphanage but these people simply do not. trust it to do so so this is something that we solved on

a social level general social problems that cause these children to be taken away how can they be tackled so. something that an individual or for those for an individual part of russia can provide but then the. region to try to say ok. all these orphans are receiving all these people but at least we can do all of them a new home trying to do as you can see more appalled. in russia it's hard enough to find a new family for healthy olson's it's even harder for children like these. serious physical mental or psychological disabilities. at kira's all finished 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 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. the first course of action is to try and place the children back with parents who often give them up scared off by the diagnoses that often it shows that with the right care these children can be. the parents have to prove their attitude has changed for other potential adopters through 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 all that has occurred but it doesn't matter how good the facilities are here or what care the children receive we are all of the staff here still know than an orphanage is no substitute for a family a quick straw poll shows as much. but are young 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 of an orphanage can do to solve the problem of adoption that cost them and not only adopted four children from all from the jumble 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. i learned who's fourteen so she was betrayed by her parents and those who promise to never did. she finally found your group when you're in the home your role was 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 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. r.t. dot com has a lot more stories and analysis for you and here's a taste of what we've got lined up now. france is finding it hard to crunch the numbers as growth plummets and debt service find out why it's feared plan government cuts could soon sand riders to be on their anger on the streets. and i was the engine trouble or arm hijackers a force the plane to turn back at a moscow airport but a passenger breaking into a mile high street chains find out more about the unexpected in-flight entertainment actually 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 remarkable story of a subject for this week's resident with laurie 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 about that so. it will get better gas. that also. i don't know though up close it i think he'd say 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 the ending 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 as that is so if american women stopped 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 the only way to get their men motivated i can understand it or get me on the show pretty quickly 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 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 sex 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 violence needed. well shortly our moscow our team explores the most spectacular fountain displays in the russian capital that's after we cast our top stories in just a few minutes. in

indonesia oh geez available in the ground you know the term shows a media hutto the ritz carlton hotel return to chile millennium hotel in chile you can seal a sensor told mccomb. grown to be closer to old macand have a mission marco result otome to do so. would result from a cold closer to home with her riviera hotel in the current scene trying to tell me

. welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow these are the top stories maybe as rabble the nato are closing in on colonel canal his hometown worries believe he might be hiding in while western countries wastes no time in securing big business in a war torn country. russia puts forward a un resolution calling for dialogue to broker peace in syria the document is stick our watch as 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 gag a world war two veteran the eighty five year old has been jailed for recording a court hearing but activists claim the real reason he's speaking out against corruption and the judiciary. shows you.