as we can see they are going to. be because rebels and nato are closing in on girls and obvious hometown of words believed he might be hiding as western governments make their moves to win big business and a war torn country. of battle and the u.s. and russia calls for dialogue to broker peace in syria criticizing the u.s. can states for showing bias in siding with anti-government protesters. and the british quarters accuse of gagging of world war two veteran by jailing him for speaking out against corruption in the history.

of the russian capital you're watching r t i'm marina joshie the u.n. is calling for a halt to violence in media as the rebels are advancing on colonel gadhafi as hometown of sirte with aerial support from nato british tornado jets have fired cruise missiles at his command and control bunker in the town regarded as the last stronghold and nato bombings come despite previous statements from the lines that it wasn't assisting rebels in their hunt for gadhafi there's also been intense fighting near tripoli international airports. who's in the capital says many there are now living in fear of. was there but why am i proud of. his heavy volatility. he had said in the media nobody's seen these people nobody cared about this beautiful huge case and chiefly as each. i think you may not know i think she.

was that he was he really was everything the most in life and that all the hey just to take a shit is be a friend was this is only for jerky things only for the things that these 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 you have a sense of the blanchett emerged when hundreds of bodies of a fallen hospital abandoned by softly in the arrival of rebel forces he no one came and killed many residents now leaving any case and on the land from bay charges i think. because i'm a what i say right out of the show what i know is that when i'm there i'm an artist it was either that or that you're out about is when you enter

a so many weapons and. there's no good time for you anymore the man says nothing and he's done this i was raised that way i get up just like doesn't this show this is something to do with that leader is the model that i'm six people was it was such a crisis and other kinds that's. still at large this battle is not yet over there is no shot 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 contracts but as sarah for a 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 what can one point five billion from the u.n. that's on top of three hundred million dollars from turkey it's questions abound about the future of the pace get back here is the money that's been talking the loudest governments have a strong interest in opening up new channels. opening up business for. everybody. it leads foreign minister has the night 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 crease 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 they were exactly who these past funds belong to in the states which is coming to an end the borderline between wealth problems wealth of

a good artist family and the wealth of the state were not very clear so it's hard to see how much of this money was a direct in the nation of darkness wealth wealth and how much of it was actually. could be categorized as libyan assets to get out the family were often accused of easing libya's riches and their own personal pocket money now there are concerns that the unfreezing of libyan assets without effective monitoring peter aid from the flood gates to new corruption lead is now a lot of opportunities everybody is trying to. you know it's sort of. trying to exploit this war as best. police could have oil gas and infrastructure projects to follow as the war torn country rebuilds. everyone it seems wants a slice of the action

a war is nowadays indispensable for western economies western interests. you destroy your appeal because for every european it's like it's not just italy that in trying to keep the national transitional council on sites like it or not in many western countries a place where libya will mean big business there for. a while there are hopes of democracy in the new media many analysts say the reality is likely to be very different as the rebels have been infiltrated by islamic extremists journalist have escobar says al qaida is already effectively in power in tripoli gas hole is that the fact that military commander of tripoli as we speak so give you and me do have keenly bowl hotch and he is the. best that he was trained in afghanistan he was struck by the cia after nine eleven he was friends with charcoal

he was captured in the lesion two thousand and three he was tortured in a bank or in 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 troops from the beginning of the window who february seventeenth movement was hijacked by as of a top hours by the u.s. military defectors from tripoli everybody was working together including this so after 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. fresh diplomatic efforts to end the ongoing violence in syria have been made by russia as it's introduced its own draft u.n. resolution last year is calling on both sides of the country to engage in dialogue and for president bashar asad to speed up promised reforms are he's going to check out his across the latest. it looks like we're going to see

a battle of two different versions of resolutions on syria the u.n. security council russia is putting forward its draft resolution which will be an alternative to the resolution that the u.s. and european representatives are putting together a letter has already been 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 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 washer and draft resolution does not put pressure on just one side it costs what dialogue it calls for restraint on both sides and here is more on that from russia's and point to the united nations who

spoke with us earlier if there are some constructive ideas from our colleagues were . there but of course simply you know marrying the two would go to different species from different planets so what we're seeing from our colleagues u.k. and others it's completely biased on that leaning exclusively on the syrian government that doesn't have anything about the need for dialogue doesn't encourage 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. even stronger efforts in order to topple the syrian government so that's why we don't like at all what our western colleagues are trying to achieve by that the resolution of propose an alternative to keep the security council involved but the world. for months russia has been pointing at the problem with the attitude the

west of the west towards the dramatic developments in syria also says that attitude has been exclusively about exerting pressure on one of the parties namely the syrian government and president all sucked which effectively it sends the wrong message to the syrian opposition prompting them to believe that if they remain insistent on 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 and now as for how the resolution how far the resolution can go both russia and the u.s. have powers 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. will still

have for you this hour here on r t a gathering storm or brace itself for historic hurricane irene with evacuations from the city as well as airports and public transport of being shut down. and a god report says china will be leading the world military power within the next decade find out why washington is so concerned. now the people of the caucuses republic of a policy of have elected a new leader it's been confirmed the country's vice president alexander and cobb has seen off the challenge of two rivals in a presidential election there is much at stake for the country which needs to rebuild after its long fight for independence from georgia artiest home garden joins us live now from the capital so who so a winner has emerged how big a victory was it. yes alexander the former

vice president is now president of the tiny caucasus republic of cars here the central election commission announced that he won with fifty five percent of the one hundred two thousand votes cast this is a small republic voter turnout was put at seventy two percent high figure and it's virtually the same voter turnout there was for the last presidential election in two thousand and nine there were minor complaints from the other two candidates the prime minister and another former vice president but they were nothing shaking and overall there was few reports there were no reports of of any disturbances we heard a little bit of celebrate three gunfire last night and we saw some of the people gathered throughout the night trying to wait for results but overall it's passed very peacefully and in a very well organized fashion alexander is

a former policeman is from a police family he fought for the country's independence card his independence in the one nine hundred ninety one to two civil war he had a number of attempts on his life in the past few years all of which make him quite a tough figure not a public politician until now but one who has a lot of influence in our cars here. while people were voting for their new president they were also voting for the future talk us through the challenges that the country's facing. this around club will face some big hurdles to try and climb over primarily to do with the infrastructure of the country but all of that is because of this very special time of the moment but it is. three years ago yesterday russian president dmitri medvedev recognized the independence of a car from georgia and that was after

a war away to the east and south of setia and fears that the georgians may also attack here in our cars here that came at the end of a long independence struggle for of cars here which started after the breakup of the soviet union in one thousand nine hundred one and one thousand nine hundred two and that left all that fighting left the country and its infrastructure in a very sorry state once a very famous soviet holiday resort and very famed for its fruit growing in exports both those major sectors are very weak now and mr m. club is going to need to really focus on building those up so that the new of cars here with its new president will be able to stand on its own two feet. all right tom thanks very much indeed for bringing us the subject from tom bart reporting there. the fallout from the mass riots across england has pushed prison populations there to a record high even sally still found space to jail

a world war two veteran incarcerated simply for recording a court hearing as artie's lore and 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 saved. 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 season covering the corruption of the judiciary see them frown upon make scott is no stranger to the legal system

he won a case in the european court of human rights banning secret hearings yet still some cases in england all heard behind closed doors and recording and taking photographs is forbidden unlike in other e.u. countries scarth attends demonstrations where he shouts about corruption in the police and judiciary saying lawyers police and the courts are in cahoots and regularly persecution gag those who disagree with them that's why m.p. john hemming suspects the judge was trying to shut him up we have in theory in this country called freedom of expression not his 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 old gentleman who may not always be right but he has a right to be here luckily for scott he has friends with knowledge of the law and they're acting for him normally the porter the for his case here to the boiled

court of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to heaven meanwhile car 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 allocators scott also says he's being denied access to a lawyer by his jailers conspiracy going on every day and every fall in the slot in the musical it's a place called. 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 nor am it r.t. london. he york is bracing itself as approaching hurricane irene asked for us the mayor to order evacuations from the city the spyder weakening to a category one storm forecasters say it remains extremely dangerous and president

obama had 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 nine 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 in 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 what hall it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to a vacuum wait from their building now up until this point new yorkers weren't really taking these warnings in these forecasts seriously because the last time this city experienced our hurricane a very heavy and dangerous hurricane was in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight but as we saw saturday we saw the winds picking up we saw many people rushing to the supermarkets rushing to the stores to stock up on good stock up on food stock up on water some engineers believe that the infrastructure of new york city because it is so old may not be able to withstand the powers of the wind that there may be flooding in tunnels of new york city some airports may be flooded homes possibly even flooded and or destroyed so at this point everybody is preparing for the worst bracing themselves hoping it's not going to be as bad as forecasted but if it is it

is not clear what will be of new york come monday. right over there reporting from new york while you're watching our team live from moscow there are plenty here to have for you on a program including family or our close of team reports on how an orphanage in the care of regions helps children with physical vandel band psychological disabilities find a new home. that's later in the program before that the pentagon has released a report warning that china is on track to become a leading world military power in less than eight years the u.s. document says the by building aircraft carriers missiles and a belting cyber warfare basine could potentially destabilizing asia a con helen and an expert on asian military affairs believes america has its own 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 that is

because they want to raise the chinese up so they were big danger that way we can keep a large military footprint in asia but it also has to do with internal matters too it's a push to cut the military budget that arms companies and really curious are 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 to test it keep in mind they have lawyered carrier which is one half the size of american aircraft carriers in the millikan's have ten nimitz class aircraft carriers so even if they build one or two or even three warrant rest areas they're nowhere near the level they would need to challenge the united states to fence that was khan han in the next part on asian military affairs there. and russia's far east has seen its third shark attack in the space of ten days after

a man was savage while swimming in pacific waters the victim was taken to hospital with his forearm badly injured and suffering with wounds to his body the manner of the fire the swimming ban of forests of russia's east coast brought in after the two other recent incidents the first recorded shark attacks in the country's history last we saw one man lose both his forearms trying to protect his wife while all of the other case a sixteen year old divers leg was severely u.s. related to how and for the shark or shards is only one way. and now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world hundreds of militants across the border into pakistan attacked a number of security checkpoints killing up to fifteen feet and seized other areas triggering clashes with security forces official say pakistani militants responded to the assaults killing nine cross border raids have raised tension between the countries in recent months as they battle insurgents linked to the taliban and al

qaida. and islamised militant group has admitted responsibility for the downed lee attack on the u.n. headquarters in the nigerian capital of georgia it happened on friday when a car rammed through two security gates to spy 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 at two point four million dollar reward for information about a deadly raid on a casino it's haq in the city of monterrey left over fifty people dead and many more injured dozens were trapped inside and showed when gunmen burst into the venue sprayed it with fuel and set it on fire authorities suspect the tap was connected to organized crime. but you are you coming to live from moscow we now continue to explore russia and the latest in our close up series looking at life in all corners

of the country. and this week we're taking you thousand kilometers from moscow to the city of clear off it's a place full of community spirit were for many people family comes first as are it's easier abroad and reports the city is leading the way in a pioneering project to find homes for the orphans. apart from being a personal tragedy and of difficulty to overcome being an orphan is also a social problem in 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 caliber trusted to do so so this is something that needs to be solved on a social level general social problems of course these children to be taken away how can they be tackled so it's not something that either an individual orphanage

or an individual part of russia can provide but then the same because of rigid i 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 provide 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 orphans it's even harder for children like these all of them diagnosed with serious physical and mental all psychological disabilities. but here at kira's orphanage number one they manage it well and russians are currently hundred and fifty thousand children who haven't been adopted here ninety eight percent of all orphans find a new family before their six. 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 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 but other potential adopters their educational courses and ongoing medical support all basics in the west but hardly universal in russia and yet stuff say these on the main reasons for their success you miss. it. 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 moved here. 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 orphanages track record is anything to go by they'll soon find a family. of five new families but these children are commendable only so much

of an orphanage can do to solve the problem of adoption thirty and it cost them and not only adopted four children from orphanage number one but also sits on an adoptive parents committee yes the bill can you but 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 along the who's fourteen so she was betrayed by her parents and those who promised never did. she finally found a home. in the home you're always just a part of the group but here in the family you are needed by someone there is not tenderness more love i'm happy. with the last. so orphanages make an effort to connect with the world outside and adoption becomes more widespread and society will be more happy endings like this one eager ordinary

. kira reach him. and our web site 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 surges find out why it's feared planned government cuts could soon stand riders to advance their anger on the streets. and it wasn't engine trouble or armed hijackers that forced the plane to turn back at a moscow airport but a passenger breaking into a mile high strip tease find out more about the unexpected in-flight entertainment and i see that. well shortly here in art he will bring you the latest from the world of gadgets and high tech that's after recap our top stories in just a few minutes.

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