soon which brightened. the sun from months to freshen these. stunts on t.v. don't come. libya's rebels or nato are closing in on colonel gadhafi hometown where it's believed he might be hiding that's as western governments make their moves to ingrain business in the war torn country. after the un rosser calls for dialogue to broker peace and cereal bowl criticizing the u.s. and european states showing bias in siding with anti-government protests. and a british court is accused of gagging a world war two veteran by jailing him for speaking out against corruption in the judiciary.

fly from moscow words to pm you're watching r t with me and he's now a our top story this hour the u.n. is calling for a halt to violence in libya 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 gadhafi its last stronghold the nato bombings come just like previous statements from the alliance that it wasn't assisting rebels in their hunt for gadhafi there's also been intense fighting near tripoli's international airport notion of who's in the capital so many there are now living in fear of anarchy. they are looking. to. be in these people look at the good about this really you. really easy. i

think and then i think she. was. the. everything the mountain lion people had all the decades of dictatorship is being tried and it was this is only for your good things only for doing the things spoke good fees fighting has continued since rebel forces and said tripoli during the week and much of the city baz this cause a war on top of months of lentulus bombing by nato you have a sense of the bloodshed emerged when hundreds of bodies were found in a hospital abandoned by stuff fleeing the arrival of rebel forces he no one came. and he came and sat on demand from a chinese i think. the more of us me was additional audio editing went on the narrative from the night that i was here that is that you had

about this when we interviewed so many went to these i'm going to quote there's no good time for you anymore. but the man says enough to know. this. was most great way to conduct this is the government to show this is going to be their leader this is the model seven and six people it's obvious what. sacred is zero and not the kinds that's. still at large this guy is not yet over there is no shots tripoli. well meanwhile the race for libya's vast oil wealth is gathering momentum states who work together during massive made a rare find so now working against each other in the battle to secure lucrative energy contracts but as r.t. sarah ferguson reports it's led to fear is that a new libya or new regime i should say in libya could easily slide. cooption.

half a billion dollars from italy now a whopping one point five billion from the u.n. gas into the three hundred million dollars from turkey this is questions abound about the future of the pace get happy living here it's the money that's been talking the loudest governments have a strong interest. in our new panels. opening up business for. everybody is reason for its lead foreign minister has the night there's a race on with france to be the first on the ground to restart business in libya but the italians have me to clear their eagerness to maintain the extremely crays trade ties they enjoyed and they get back the regime but as the money begins to flow to help the national transitional council if it takes power but the question mark remains a very exactly he is fast funds belong to indeed get our states which is coming to

an end the borderline between wealth the product well for the good of his 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 the past as well have a boil and how much of it was actually. could be categorised as libyan assets exactly family were often accused of easing libya's riches as their own personal pocket money now there are concerns that the unfreezing of libyan assets without effective monitoring his aid in the flood gates to new corruption is now a lot of opportunity everybody's trying to. you know it's sort of. trying to exploit this war as best the. police could have oil gas and infrastructure projects to follow as the water. hunchy rebuilds

everyone it seems wants a slice of the action by war of the now what is indispensable for western economies western interests leave the frost you destroy your appeal because for every european it's like it's not just italy that have been trying to keep the national transitional council. like it or not so many western countries a place for libya will mean big business there for. now while there are hopes of democracy in the new there beyond many analysts saying the reality is likely to be very different as the rebels have been infiltrated by islamic extremists journalist pepe escobar says al qaeda is already out so effectively in power in tripoli guess the fact top military commander of tripoli as we speak i'll give you only knew how to keep. in the he is there now yes it he was trained in afghanistan he was struck by the cia after nine eleven he

was friends with sarkar when he was captured in molitor in two thousand and three he was tortured in bangkok you know one of the also 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 tree trunk the beginning window february seventeenth movement was hijacked by jimmy talked for 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. as they are commenting on the current situation in libya. first diplomatic efforts to end the ongoing violence in syria have been made by russia as it introduced its own drowned here when resolution moscow was calling on both sides in the country to engage in dialogue and for president also to speed up promised reforms or he's going to can

is of course the latest developments. 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 thanks 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 washroom draft resolution does not put

pressure on just one side it costs would dialogue it cost for restraint on both sides and here is more on that from russia's and going 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've seen from. colleagues u.k. and others it's completely biased on the. exclusively on the syrian government that doesn't have anything about the need for dialogue doesn't impose your position for dialogue in fact our concern is that it's going to be the more extreme the more destructive elements of the syrian opposition towards. stronger efforts in order to put all of the syrian government so that's why we don't like at all what colleagues are trying to achieve by about the resolution and i propose an

alternative to keep the security council involved but the pervert involved in. 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 it sends the wrong message to the syrian opposition prompting them to believe that if they remain insistent in this situation kids getting critical of the west will come to help them you know the way it happened in libya 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 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. it's coming up to eleven minutes past the hour still ahead on our two gathering storm door braces themselves for historic hurricane irene with evacuations from the city as well as airports and public transport being shut down. and the president reports that china will be a leading world military power within the next decade find out why washington you so concerned. but first the people of the caucuses republic of a positive i have elected a new leader it's been confirmed the country's vice president alexander has seen off the challenge of two rivals in the presidential election there is much at stake for the country which needs to rebuild its long fight for independence from georgia . is there now joins us live from the capital sukhumi tom how big a victory is it for the newly elected leader. well in the

form of a. vice president alexander vibe is now the president of the tiny caucasus republic of our cars here the central election commission announced that he took fifty five percent of the one hundred two votes cast and they put voter turnout at a high seventy two percent that's virtually the same as in the last presidential election in two thousand and nine there were some minor complaints from the other two candidates the prime minister and another former vice president but those were nothing earth shaking really and there were no reports of any disturbances before this announcement. in electing a president of course the are people who are voting for the republican future but what are the main challenges it's facing. mr and

crab is going to face a lot of questions and a lot of expectation from people that the economy really needs to be built up and the infrastructure that really comes all the damage that economy has come after a long struggle of causes for independence from georgia that started after the breakup of the soviet union and culminated in two thousand and eight in russia recognizing the independence of our cars here few of the countries in the world at the moment recognize the independence of our cause here and georgia still thinks it is considers it part of its territory however none of those political considerations a really very important here because your people really want to focus on building up the economy so damaged in the vicious fighting with georgia all over all those years of famous former soviet holiday resorts that industry will need to build up

as will the growing exports in the fruit which is still very famous for. and once those both those things are built up people hope that our cause it will really be able to stand on its own two feet again. tom barton reporting live from across here thanks for. the fallout from the mass riots across england has prison populations there to a record high even so they've still found space to tell a world war two veteran incarcerated simply for recording a court hearing but as artist or emma reports there could be other motives behind his present. 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 well if they're sent to leeds prison they'll be languishing alongside an eighty five year old norman scar he plied the arctic sea cheering the second world war

serving his country taking essential supplies to the soviet union on the most dangerous journey in the world and now he's serving six months in prison on the whim of a british judge his crime reporting 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 she's uncovering the corruption that the judiciary has she done for all not to make scott is no stranger to the legal system he won a case in the european court of human rights at planning 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 of those who disagree with them that's why m.p.

john hemming suspects the charge was trying to shut him up having to. in this country something called freedom of expression of 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 grab an elderly gentleman who may not always be right but he has a right to. luckily for scott he has friends with knowledge of the law and they're acting for him you know but par for the court of the for his case here to the boiled court of justice but they don't feel tough to fifty third the head meanwhile plainfield 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 description going on every day and every call released listen closely to. 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 r.t. london. well across the atlantic new york is bracing itself as approaching hurricane irene has forced the mayor to order evacuations from the city despite a we came into the category one storm forecasters say it remains extremely dangerous and president obama warns it could be. public transportation including the new york subway will be shut down for the first time ever. cage's the mood in the metropolis. more than eight million new yorkers are preparing for what's expected to be i.d.d. interests and possibly disastrous hurricane on its way to new york city this hurricane is expected to hit new york by nine p.

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 watch 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 hurricane a very heavy and dangerous hurricane was in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight but as we saw saturday we saw the winds picking up we saw many people rushing to

the supermarkets rushing to the stores to stock up by good stock up on food stock up on water some engineers believe that the infrastructure of new york city because it is so old may not be able to withstand the powers of the wind 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 on monday. so there's still plenty ahead for you here on our t.v. including family matters our fourth of team reports on how an orphanage in the care of regions children with physical mental and psychological disabilities find new homes. 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 that by building aircraft carriers missiles and developing cyber warfare beijing could potentially destabilize asia but conn hallinan an expert on asian military affairs believes america has its own interests in creating the thoughts around china. there's a lot of hype going on right now in the united states and some of that use because they want to raise the chinese up so they regain sure that 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 you know it to reassure digging in their heels and shoulders trowing up this kind of chinese bugaboo aircraft carriers this missile which can sink your craft here it's going to. keep in mind they have one aircraft carrier which is one half the shards of american aircraft carriers you know millikan's chand nimitz class aircraft carrier so

even if they build one or two or even three or craft carriers they're nowhere near the level they would need to challenge the united states. calls from conn hallinan there an expert on asian military affairs russia's far east has seen its third shark attack in the space of ten days after a man was savaged while swimming in a separate waters the victim was taken to hospital with his forearm badly injured and suffered wounds to the body a man had to find a swimming ground on parts of russia's east coast brought in after 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 leg was severely vacillated the hunt for the shark or sharks is under way. a look now at some other stories making headlines around the

world hundreds of afghan militants have fought for the border into pakistan and attacked a number of security checkpoints killing up to fifteen they then seized other areas triggering further clashes with security forces there were casualties on the militant side but it's not known how many we involved in southern afghanistan for civilians were killed and twenty injured after a suicide car bomb exploded outside a bank. and this was a militant group has admitted responsibility for the deadly attack on the un's headquarters in the nigerian capital. it happened on friday when a car rammed through choose to curity gates cars 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 buildings. 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 fifty people dead and many more

injured dozens were trapped inside and choked when gunmen burst into the venue sprayed it with fuel and set it on fire authorities suspect the attack was connected to organized crime. now we continue to explore russia in the latest of our close up series looking at life in all the corners of the country. the lebanese . and this week we're taking you thousand kilometers from moscow to the city of heroes it's a place full of community spirit where for many people family comes first. reports the city is leading the way in a pioneering project to find homes for orphans. a part to be a personal tragedy and it difficult 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 or relatives outside of the orphanage but these people simply do not want to look after them or cannot be trusted to do so so this is something that needs to be solved on a social level general social problem because these children taken away how can they be tackled so it's not necessarily something that an individual orphanage for an individual part of russia can provide but then the same care 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 try to do as you can see marbled. in russia it's hard enough to find a new family for healthy olson's 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 information number one they manage it while in russia there

are currently hundred and fifty thousand children who haven't been adopted here ninety percent of all find a new family for the six. or 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 logic and parents often give them up scared off by the diagnoses often and show that with the right care these children can lead normal lives and parents. have to prove their attitude has changed for other potential doctors 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. it doesn't matter how good the facilities are here or what care the children receive we all of the staff here still know that an orphanage is no substitute for a family

a quick straw poll shows as much. 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 into orphanages track record is anything to go by they'll soon find a family. of five new families but these children are commendable blunders only so much but an orphanage can do to solve the problem of adoption thirty and a customer not only dr for children from orphanage number one but also sits on an adoptive parents committee yes. i think the problem is the social attitudes towards the youth children it's not a case of money where an average family always did that which is really there you just have to love the children themselves. fourteen says she was betrayed by her parents and those who promised her doctor and never did then she finally found a home. in the home we were 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 alaska. so often it does make an effort to connect with the world outside an adoption becomes more widespread in society they'll be more happy endings like this one you are ordinary. well archie dark comedy has a lot more stories and analysis for you here's a taste of what's lined up right now france is finding it hard to crunch the numbers as growth plummets and that surges find out why it's fear government cuts could soon said rioters to vent their anger on the streets. and it was an engine trouble or armed hijackers that forced a plane to turn back at a moscow airport but a passenger breaking into of my own high strip tease find out more about the unexpected in-flight entertainment at our dot com. well sure there are moscow

out seem explores the most spectacular found place in the russian capital that's after the headlines coming up after this short break. if. you.

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