ory the un is calling for a halt to violence in libya as the rebels are advancing on colonel gadhafi as hometown of syria with aerial support from nato british tornado jets have fired cruise missiles at his command and control bunker in the town regarded as gadhafi his last stronghold the nato bombing has 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's international airport the notion of who's in the capital says many there are now living in fear of anarchy. was there but when i am here i am if i was. headed by a little i don't think i can sit in the middle of nobody's seen these people nobody cared about this before you. make a distinction fairly easy for me. i think you may not know. who she.

was that if. he was really that was everything that might seem like he had all the hey jake take a shot is being a friend was this is only for jerk that things started out only for dirty things specific fees fighting has continued since rebel forces and chiefly during the week and much of the city baz this cause a war on top of months of relentless bombing by nato and new evidence of the bloodshed emerged when hundreds of bodies of a fallen hospital abandoned by stuff lay in the arrival of rebel forces he no one came a chill many residents down and he came and on the land from bay charges i think. the more i say right out of the show what it was when i met your mother but it was here that it is not yet about is it when we answer already so many weapons and. there is no good time for you anymore the man says that nothing was done this

was great and duffy so to speak just went to show this substance that with their leader since the final set ends its people its modest was celebrated as oh another continent what's with the council still at large this battle 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 nato airstrikes are now working against each other in the battle to secure a book rid of energy contracts as are two sarah firth reports and 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 get daffy libya is the money that's been talking the loudest governments have a strong interest in. opening up business for. everybody. it leads foreign minister has denied 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 under the gadhafi regime but as the money begins to flow to help the national transitional council as it takes power the big question mark remains a very exactly who these fast funds belong to the. states which is coming to an end the borderline between wealth the problem well for the good office family and the wealth of the state not very clear so of it's hard to see hard march of

this money was a direct in the nation of gadhafi as well probably 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 in the floodgates to new corruption no amount of reporting. everybody's trying to. do you know it's a sort of new routine we're trying to exploit as this war as best we both believe 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 nowadays indispensable for western economies western interests to leave.

you destroy your ability to throw every european it's like. 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. now while there are hopes of democracy in the new libya many analysts say 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 effectively in power internally gas hall is the defacto military commander of tripoli as we speak so give you and me do had keenly bio had that 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 molitor 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 the window hole 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. well journalist pepe escobar there commenting on the current situation in libya. pressure diplomatic efforts to end the ongoing violence in syria have been made by russia as it introduced its own draft u.n. resolution moscow is calling on both sides in the country to engage in dialogue and for president assad to speed up promised reforms or he's going to the 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 a letter has already being dubbed as sanctions resolution the u.s. and european leaders want to put more pressure on the syrian government whereas the russian version of the resolution makes 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 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. 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 that to keep the security council involved but to have a 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 the situation keeps getting critical the west will come to help them you know the way it happened did leave 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. still

ahead this hour gathering storm new york braces itself for historic hurricane irene with evacuations from the city as well as airports and public transport being shut down. and a pentagon report says china will be leaving world military power within the next decade find out why washington is so concerned. the people of the caucus republic have elected a new leader it's been confirmed that the country's vice president alexander. has seen off the challenge i should say of two rivals in the presidential election there is much at stake for the country which needs to rebuild after its long fight for independence from georgia. in the capital. former vice president alexander un viber is now the president of the caucasus republic of cars here the central election commission announced that he took fifty five percent of the one

hundred two votes cast and they put voted turnout at a high seventy two percent all of this was made necessary by the death of the previous president surrogate by a gap which on the twenty ninth of may he died suddenly leaving power vacuum in his place there because young people are going to expect a lot from mr primarily building up cars use ruined infrastructure after a long struggle for independence from georgia three years ago russia recognize the independence of abkhazia after a war away to the east in south of setia and fears that the georgia may attack abkhazia as well that was just the end of a long struggle for independence which started after the collapse of the soviet union and left a lot of the young republics infrastructure in ruins primarily the famous ones famous soviet holiday resorts along the coast here that will need to be built up and also the agriculture and food growing industries also very famous here but now

very weak and if mr and can build up both of those things he'll help this young republic to stand on its own two feet again. well 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 or world war two veteran incarcerated simply for recording a court hearing. 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 leave prison they'll be languishing alongside eighty five year old norman scarth 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 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 he was because he's in covering the corruption in the judiciary you see the frown upon a scar 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 those who disagree with them that's why m.p. john hemming suspects the judge was trying to shut him up we have in theory in this country something called freedom of expression that is people's right to speak out

about what they see as wrong as long as they're telling the truth 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 deal and they're taking for him nobody stops supporting the boy his case to the boil court of justice but they don't feel justice is being to have meanwhile claim to being denied it and chill medication in prison according to reports conditions in leeds prison. the war veteran can't get any exercise because he's unable to walk for the entire hour allocated scott also says he's being denied access to a lawyer by his jail as the schools are going on every day and every poll released its. 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. london. new york is bracing itself for the approaching hurricane irene which has already hit the coast of north carolina the threat has forced the new york mayor to order evacuations while public transport will be shut down for the first time ever despite a weakening to a category one storm forecasters say are remains extremely dangerous and president obama had warned the hurricane could be historic are important i a gauge is 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 p. am saturday evening parts of the city was was filled with crowds of people as you saw officials evacuating new yorkers from parts of areas that

were deemed extremely dangerous for the first time in history the new york city mayor ordered mandatory evacuation of what he called lone 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 the stores to stock up on good stock up on food stock up on water some engineers

believe that the infrastructure of new york city because it is so old may not be able to withstand the powers of the wind and there may be flooding in tunnels of new york city some airports may be flooded homes possibly even flooded and or destroyed so at this point everybody is preparing for the worst bracing themselves hoping it's not going to be as bad as forecasted but if it is it is not clear what will be of new york come monday. there's still plenty ahead for you on r t including family matters for most of team reports on how an orphanage and the cure of region helps 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. documents as that by building aircraft carriers missiles and developing cyber warfare basing could potentially destabilize asia but khan hallinan an expert on

asian military affairs but leaves america has its own interests 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 there 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 arms companies and the military assure 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 millikan's 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 it's defense. that was calling helen an expert on 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 pacific waters the victim was taken to hospital with his forearm badly injured and suffering wounds to his body the man had to fight a swimming battle on parts of russia the 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 the hunt for the shark or sharks is underway. but looking now at some other news from around the world this hour hundreds of afghan militants have crossed the border into pakistan and attacked a number of security checkpoints killing twenty six 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 meanwhile in southern afghanistan four civilians were killed and twenty injured after a suicide car bomb exploded outside a bank. and islamist 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 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 most 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 many more injured dozens were trapped inside and 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 in the latest of our close up series look at life in all corners of the country. the bad. news. and this week we're taking you a thousand kilometers from moscow to the city of heroes it's a place full of community spirit where for many people family comes first and. now reports the city is leading the way in a pioneering project to find homes for orphans. 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 in fact most of the parents or relatives outside of the orphanage but these people simply

do not want to look after them or come of the charset to do so so this is something that needs to be solved on a social level general social problems that cause these children to be taken away and how can they be tackled so. something that either an individual orphanage or the vigil part of russia can provide but then the saved her and the care of region to try to say ok we're being dealt with all these orphans we're receiving all these people but at least all we can do is fund all of them a new home and that's what i tried to do as you can seem are appalled. 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. tear at the care of orphanage number one they manage it while in russia there are currently a 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 where reaching out to the potential parents and the authorities and working with them. first course of action is to try and place the children back with parents who often give them up scared off the diagnoses that often it shows that with the right care these children can lead normal lives. the parents have to prove their attitude has changed for other potential adopters 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. but it doesn't matter how good the facilities are here or what care the children receive we all of the staff here still know than an orphanage is no substitute for a family a quick straw poll shows as much work 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 to orphanages track record is anything to go by they'll soon find a family there they may care for a new families for these children are commendable but others only so much that an orphanage can do to solve the problem of adoption that cost them and not only adopted four children from orphanage number one but also sits on an adoptive parents committee yes. i think the problem is the social attitudes towards the youth 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 alone or who's fourteen says she was betrayed by her parents and those who promised to adopt her and never did then she finally found a home with your group when you are in the home you are 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 asking. 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. i'm standing here with you know i'm a couple who is a citizen of and hopefully should provide us with a moral perspective on adoption now all these officials are telling us that the situation with adoption of approving. more and more children are finding new parents now from your own observations is this the case is a becoming more popular yeah i think that the situation with adult child has changed recently in the coal country and even here regions and there are more and more all parents and people who want to take babies from children scams it goes either they have health problems all day long to come but it's a parabolic maybe some of them want a little payments from the government just to improve the situation i know there

are people who offer almost all hinges they're very prospective people and they. have a good future they have a good job since profession so they did their best to achieve their aims seem to live but do you think there is still some discrimination they think when people say this person you know it changes their opinion about this person i think it happens in the world but i can see that the situation is changing with these points too because the people are quite tall around and even in our region among. my colleagues they acquired the children from whole foods is a thank you very much i'll be speaking to. lives here in kirov and she's been talking to us about the culture. dot com have lots more stories and analysis for you here's a taste of what we've got wind up right now france is finding it hard to crunch the

numbers and grow it plummets and surges find out why it's feared plan government could soon send rioters to vent their anger on the streets. and it was an engine trouble or armed hijackers that forced the plane to turn back to a moscow airport but a passenger breaking into a mile high strip tease find out more about the unexpected in-flight entertainment that our team. will shortly be hear from the her heroic russian pilots who managed to land a plane after its engine suddenly failed at thirty thousand feet that's after the headlines in just a moment. wealthy

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three thirty pm time these are the top stories on our teeth libya's rebels and nato are closing in on colonel gadhafi his hometown where it's believed to might be hiding meanwhile western governments waste no time in securing big business in the war torn country. forward a u.n. resolution calling for dialogue to broker peace in syria the document is counter to counter i should say what is. posed 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 reporting up for fearing but activists claim the real reason was his speaking out again.