the rebels are advancing on colonel could obvious home town of sirte with aerial support from nato british turn a no jets have fired cruise missiles at his command and control bunker in the town regarded as good obviously last stronghold the nato bombings come despite previous statements from the alliance that it wasn't assisting rebels in their hunt for gadhafi there's also been intense fighting near tripoli as inter international airport idea who is in the capital says many there are now living in fear of autarky. are badly. hit by follow. the heavy bombing or look at. anything that's. nobody's seen these people nobody cared about this before you. know she he she.

said i. think. everything that might seem i think that on decades to take a ship is being tried in. this is only for dirty things only for dirty things fee's fighting has continued since rebel forces and to tripoli during the week and much of the city baz this cause a war on top of months of relentless bombing by nato new habitants of the blanchett emerged when hundreds of bodies of a fallen hospital abandoned by stuff lay in the arrival of rebel forces he no one came. any case and then they chanted in. the morning i say right out of the show that it was they were not going to remember this it was here that it is not yet about it is when we interview so many ways and . there is no good time for you anymore. the man says. no not to.

do. which was great where gadhafi soldiers like other men to show this such with their leader says the rebels have ended sheeple. so that right is ok another kind that's become still at large this battle is not yet over there is no show. tripoli. meanwhile the race for levy is vast oil wealth is gathering momentum states who work together during massive nato airstrikes are now working against each other in the battle to secure a lucrative energy contracts but as our 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 case here is the money that's been talking the loudest governments have a strong interest in opening up new. 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 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 problem 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 could have oil gas and infrastructure projects to follow as the war torn country rebuilds everyone it seems. well it's a slice of the action a war is the nowadays indispensable for the western economy western interests reason to leave. you destroy your ability destroy everything you rebuild 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 there for. the land while there are hopes of democracy in the newly v.m. many analysts say the reality is likely to be very different as the rebels have been infiltrated by islamic extremists journalist half a sky bar says al qaeda is already effectively in power in tripoli gas hall is the defacto military commander of tripoli as we speak so give you and me do had keen. and he is an al qaeda s. that he was trained in afghanistan he was struck by the cia after nine eleven he was friends with zarko when he was captured in mostly asia in two thousand and three he was tortured in bangkok you know one of those extremely rendition cia prisons in bangkok he was sent back to the libyans he made

a deal with saif al islam in two thousand and nine he was released and now he's the military commander of trip from the beginning linda holt february seventeenth movement was hijacked by tomato powers by the u.s. military defectors from tripoli everybody was working together including to softly jihad this that's why we don't know what's going to happen next journalist pepe escobar there commenting on the current situation in libya. on french 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 gauge in dialogue and for president bashar assad to speed up promised reforms are just got 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 been dubbed as sanctions resolution the u.s. and european leaders want to put more pressure on the syrian government whereas the russian version of the resolution makes two very important points first of all it cost to the syrian government to expedite the implementation of the reforms that president assad has announced in order to effectively address the legitimate aspirations and concerns of the syrian people and second it urges the syrian opposition to engage in political dialogue with the syrian authorities about what 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 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 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 sought 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 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 going to shout reporting there from washington d.c. are you watching are you live from moscow so i have for you this hour again there

in storage for braces itself for historic hurricane irene with evacuations from the city as well as airports and public transport being shut down. and a paragon report says china will be a leading world military power within the next decade find out why it's concerned. the people of the caucasus republic of you have elected a new president vice president alexander is confirmed to have won about fifty five percent of the vote in the presidential election seen off the challenge of two rivals the early election was triggered by the sudden death of presidents or debug option in may after cancer treatment there's much at stake as a republic needs to rebuild following its long fight for independence from georgia russia recognize the. nate amid fears violence can break out in a after its release is a tap on cells a city or another caucasus republic. the fallout from the mass rides of crossing

one has pushed prison populations their record high even so they've still found space to jail a world war two veteran incarcerated simply for recording a court hearing but his article or amateur 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 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 it was because caesar covering the corruption

of the judiciary you see the. scarf is no stranger to the legal system he won a case in the european court of human rights bombings 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 what is people's right to speak out about what they. as long as they're telling the truth and nine very worried this is an attempt to gag an elderly gentleman he may not always be right but he has a right to be here luckily he has friends with knowledge of the will and they're

acting for him normally the support of the for his case here to the boil court of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to have meanwhile claims he's being denied essential 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 is still going on every day and if you call the release long before you 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 as approaching hurricane irene has forced the mayor to order evacuations from the city the spine awakening to

a category one storm forecasters say remains extremely dangerous and president obama has warned it could be historic public transport including the new york subway will be shut down for the first time ever artie's marina port not gauges the mood in the metropolis. 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 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 winded 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's still plenty. we had for you on the program including family matters our close up team reports on how an orphanage in the care of region helps children with physical mental and psychological disabilities find a new home. and after hundreds of colombian women withheld sex from their husbands to get a road built we ask people in new york if they're ready to go to such extremes. 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 a by building aircraft carriers missiles and developing cyber warfare beijing could

potentially destabilize asia khan honan 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 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 aircraft here it's not even been tested keep in mind they have one aircraft carrier which is one half the sergeants of american aircraft carriers and not going to be 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 students. scott helman expert on asia military affairs. now russia's far east has seen its third shark attack in 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 wounds to his body the man had defied 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 divers leg was severely lacerated a hunt for the shark or sharks is underway. and now let's have a look at some other stories from around the world and islam this militant has admitted responsibility for the deadly attack on the un's headquarters in an

engineer in capital abuja it happened on friday when a car rammed through two security gates despite guards opening fire at least eighteen people were killed in the suicide bombing while dozens were injured some of them critically the 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 the attack in the city of monterrey left over fifty people dead and manny more injured dozens were trapped inside and choked when a 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 twelve people have died after an overcrowded ferry sank off eastern indonesia others are feared missing but it's not yet known how manny over ninety you were safely rescued from the passenger ship that went down in waters off so away as he island reports say

those on board were heading home to celebrate the end of the fasting month of ramadan. what's in our tea life from moscow we now continue to explore russia in the latest in our close of series looking at life in all corners of the country. and this week we are taking here a thousand kilometers from moscow to the city of care it's a place full of community spirit were for many people family comes first as our teams in rodef reports the city is leading the way in a pioneering project to find homes for the orphans. a part sure being a 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 all relatives outside of the orphanage but these

people simply do not want to look after them all cannot be trusted to do so so this is something that needs to be solved on a social level while the 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 for the horn 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 receive all these people but at least all we can do is fund all of 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 old friends 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 fifty thousand children who haven't been adopted here ninety

eight percent of all find a new family before six. so many orphanages exist by themselves in isolation we are reaching out to the potential parents and the authorities and working with them in the first course of action is to try and place to. children back with their biological parents who often give them up scared off by the diagnoses the orphanage 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 and that 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 if you know that our young people there are three

of us here me and my two sisters we really want to be adopted by the same family but not everyone wants three kids to orphanages track record is anything to go by they'll soon find a family there for the five new families for these children are commendable but under is only so much of 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 can you be 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 says she was betrayed by her parents and those who promised to adopt her and never did. she finally found a. group when you're in the home you are 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 it does make an effort to connect with the world outside an adoption becomes more widespread in society be more happy endings like this one. region. 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 the growth plummets and dad surges find out why it's feared plan government cuts soon sand riders to vand their anger on the streets. and i wasn't in trouble or arm tied to a curse to force the plane to turn back at a moscow airport by a passenger breaking into a mile high street teens find out more about the expected in-flight entertainment at home. now colombian authorities have

agreed to comply with demands for road improvements after hundreds of women went 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 remarkable story the subject for this week's resident was laurie harshest. in the strike of crossed legs colombian women with help thanks 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 something about that so. that we'll get better gas. that also. i don't know though up close and i think it's he says to be 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. i'm sorry the deficit. in congress was that 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 of 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 facts 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 if it got the job done with no violence needed. well shortly we explore what russia needs to do to attract more foreign investors and that's after a recap of this hour's top stories in just a few moments. would

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welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow these are the top stories maybe as rebels and they go are closing in on colonel gadhafi is hometown a word. it's believed he might be hiding in a while western governments waste no time in securing big business and the 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 trying to gag a world war two veteran of the eighty five year old has been jailed for recording a court hearing but activists claim the real reason was he's speaking out against corruption in the judiciary.