just after five pm on saturday here in moscow this is r.t. with me role research showed fierce fighting reported in parts of libya as moammar gadhafi remains at large despite nato support of the rebels and the hunt for the fugitive colonel coalition forces have launched an attack on his last remaining stronghold cafe's hometown of sirte to pave the way for a full scale ground offensive by the rebels ati's where if a national is in libya and brings us this report on the humanitarian side of the conflict. was the word that was about. the hell the bible of the khadafi regime is now heretical book in new libya nobody's seen the people nobody cared about this before you. the capital tripoli is phoria. people may not know for sure what the future will bring but they know that the past will never return.

everything that might remind people of all decades of dictatorship is being overthrown this is only for dirty things no only for dirty things fees fighting has continued since rebel forces ended tripoli during the week and much of the city bears the scars a war on top of months of relentless bombing by nato new evidence of the bloodshed emerged when hundreds of bodies were found in a hospital abandoned by starfleet in their arrival of rebel forces with no one clear control many residents now live in fear of anarchy and an armed man from both sides of the conflict. in the basement proudly shows as a trophy one while he took part in the overrunning of conduct his residence double as a zia when we entered we saw many weapons and dying to quote there is no good. three

anymore. but the man says he would love to have another prize khadafi has had. was great and done just like other men to show their solidarity with their leader says the well said and to keep a modest what was celebrated and now the current let's we can all still at large this battle is not yet over there is no snow and see people. and while tripoli is celebrating the end of a dictatorship i lists are skeptical that democracy is next in line for libya jon lester pepe escobar he spoke to us earlier and said that al-qaeda is effectively already in power in the capital gas hall is the defacto military commander of tripoli as we speak i'll give you a name abdul had keen bio had and he is an al qaeda yes it 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 window hole february seventeenth it was hijacked by the nato powers by the u.s. but a military defectors from tripoli everybody was working together including to so actually jihad this that's why we don't know what's going to happen next. and while the u.n. is calling for a hole to violence in libya nato allies are already eyeing up the country's vost oil reserves countries who have worked together to break it off its rule and now racing against each other to secure lucrative energy contracts and its reports it's led to fears 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 and to pursue a hundred million dollars from turkey is discussions a bound about the future of the pace get deaf ear it's the money that's been talking the loudest governments have a strong interest in. opening up business and. everybody is racing for its lead foreign minister has denied that there's a race on with france to be the first on the ground to restart business in libya but the italians have made clear their eagerness to maintain the extremely close trade ties they enjoyed and they get daffy regime but as the money begins to flow to help the national transitional council as it takes power the big question mark remains a very exactly who these fast funds belong to in the states which is coming to

an end the borderline between. the problem well it's family and the state were not very clear so of it's hard to see how much of this money was a direct in the nation of his wealth 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 land of opportunity everybody is 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. seems once a slice of the action in a war is nowadays indispensable for western economies we're serving to streets. you just throw your review your review it's like. it's not just it's silly that have been trying to keep the national transitional council. like you know not the many western countries a peaceful libya i mean big business there. is going to be live from the heart of moscow an hour still to come in the program here in the eye of the storm new york is bracing itself for the wife of hurricane irene as parts of the city are evacuated and public transport has been shut down. russia has introduced a draft resolution to the u.n. security council designed to push the warring sides in syria towards peaceful dialogue moscow says its proposals based on a similar statement unanimously passed by the security council earlier this month

but the draft could mean serious of opposition from western countries who are calling for a change of power in syria he's got an extra kind of ports. 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 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 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 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 void to the united nations who spoke with us earlier if there are some constructive ideas from. 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. colleagues and others it's a completely biased leaning exclusively on the syrian government that doesn't have anything about the need for dialogue doesn't encourage 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 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 moscow says that attitude has been exclusively about exerting pressure on one of the parties namely the syrian government and president all sought which effectively 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 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 he's going to know where this is all a good life for moscow a british man who challenged the judiciary system in the u.k. to expose corruption within the courts is losing his battle norman isco spoken to world war two veteran was lost on appeal against a six month jail sentence for recording a court hearing without permission it was obvious that laura reports the eighty six year old is determined to fight on his campaign for transparency. 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 scarred he plied the arctic sea cheering the second world war serving his country taking essential

supplies to the savior 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 in covering the corruption of the judiciary you see them frown upon a scarth is no stranger to the legal system he won a case in the european court of human rights of banning the 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 not just people's right to speak out about what they see as wrong as long as they're telling the truth and i'm very worried this is an attempt to gag an elderly gentleman may not always be right but he has a right to be here luckily for scott he has friends with knowledge of the law and they're acting for him normally the port of them for his case here to the boil court of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to heaven meanwhile claims to being denied it then chill medication in prison according to. poor conditions in leeds prison are bad the war veteran can't get any exercise because he's unable to walk for the entire hour allocated scott also says he's being denied access to a lawyer by his jailers it is still going on every day and every fall when this is what it will be. 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 r.t. london now a quarter past the hour here in the russian capital major cities along the eastern seaboard of the united states including new york bracing themselves for the wrath of hurricane irene it's expected to flood parts of lower manhattan as public transport including the subway will be shut down for the first time ever despite a weakening to a category one storm forecasters say it remains extremely dangerous and president obama has warned it could be historic it is more important i reports from new york . 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 weren't 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. reporting where the number is still ahead for you here and it's you know we. veitch want to journey about a thousand kilometers away from moscow namely to the region of hero russia close up scene reports on the how the region is leading the way in a pioneering project to find homes for. the pentagon has

issued a report warning that china is on track to becoming a leading military power by two thousand and twenty but beijing is called the document distorted it claims the country's expanding military capabilities could potentially destabilize the balance of power in asia over the past year china has developed a new stealth fighter an aircraft carrier has made a record number of space launches however beijing it says it's the normal progression of its technology and it's not targeting any supposed enemy an expert on a asian a military if as that of a call to helen and says the u.s. is saying its own interests and making a fuss about 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 are big danger that way we can keep a large military footprint in asia but it also has to do with internal matters to push to cut the military budget that harms companies and 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 your craft 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 american and americans have ten nimitz class aircraft carriers so even if they built one or two or even three more aircraft carriers they are nowhere near the level they would need to challenge the united states. nearly twenty minutes past the hour here in moscow let's check out some other news from around the world for the top of the world update. hundreds of afghan militants swept across the border into pakistan and attacked several security checkpoints killing. up to twenty six troops they then continue to seize other areas triggering further clashes with security forces meanwhile a twin suicide bomb attack has killed at least four and wounded twenty in southern afghanistan police officers and civilians were among those injured by the explosions the taliban has already claimed responsibility. to algeria now where

a suicide attack on a military academy has killed at least eighteen most of them being trainee offices up to twenty others were injured it happened in the city of assur shell the reports say up to two bombers set off their explosives as soldiers were breaking their ramadan fast although no one's claimed responsibility similar assaults have been blamed on the regional arm of al qaida. india's parliament has edged closer to an agreement over an anti corruption bill that could end a near two week hunger strike by a social activist dubbed by many as the new gandhi lawmakers from the ruling party in the main opposition have agreed in principle to. three key demands for the bill that came during a volatile special session of parliament however the legislation is likely to take some time to come into force seventy four year old has already has been pushing for the creation of a government anticorruption. the former georgian republic of abkhazia

has elected a new leader following the death of its president alexander out of vibe so off to other candidates to win the top seat which he will now occupy for the next five years and. reports some big business to be taken care of in that tiny country. former vice president alexander viber is now the president of the caucasus republic cars here at 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 recognized the

independence of abkhazia after a war away to the east in south the city and fears that the georgia may attack cars here as well and 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 once famous soviet holiday resorts along the coast here that will need to be built up and also the agriculture and fruit 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. right there. now it's time to join our close up team across the world's largest country of course russia taking a chance to explore its historic regions and a thousand year old traditions. today

we continue exploring russia as a kid off region it's about a thousand grandmothers away from the area isn't just known for its folk art and museums and theaters here family comes first and locals try to help all orphaned children to find a home and it's not easy reports even children with physical mental and psychological disabilities don't feel bad. being a personal tragedy added difficulty to overcome being an orphan there's also a social problem and russia there are thousands of thousands of orphans but then fact most of them 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 general social problems that cause these children to be taken away how can they be tackled so it's not necessarily something that either an individual

or for the horn individual part of russia can prevent but then the same 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 find 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 serious physical mental all psychological disabilities. but here at all finish number one they manage it well in russia there are currently a hundred and fifty thousand children who haven't been adopted. here ninety eight percent of all orphans find a new family before they're six times the cellos 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 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 bees on the main reasons for their success and that of the government 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 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 don't soon find a family there for care of the new families for these children are commendable but

under is 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 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 is fourteen says she was betrayed by her parents and those who promised to adopt her and never did then she finally found. your group when you're 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 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 either

ordinary of. your region. or it's more news and videos and updates waiting for you on our website r.t. dot com let's check out some of the items that are waiting for you there right now born in atlanta killed in memphis and made in china learn more about the controversy sparked over the american icon of martin luther king's monument in washington which was designed sculpted and put together in the far east. and a third shark attack as it left a twenty six year old man savaged in russia is a forest just days after swimming. authorities in colombia have given to the demands of hundreds of women after they went on a sex strike earlier this month they spent thirty eight days sworn off sex sitting in a highway to get local road construction workers started this week a lower half and it's also known as the resident is asking people in new york what would they be willing to abstain from.

in the strike of crossed legs colombian women with help facts to get a road paved what issue would you withhold sex for this week let's talk about that right now the economy we need to do something about that so. it will get better gas . that also i think he says he's just too big to still make six we've been friends maybe for world peace or to end hunger or something like that nothing nothing no i don't think so. the deficit. in congress was that so if american women stopped having sex do you think it would change things here we would have solved the deficit crisis very quickly what was going to do it was going to do and if the only way to get their man motivated i can understand it or get me on the show pretty quickly is there any thing that you

would withhold sex for are you kidding no i think it's an 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 sacks to get something done no i mean if it were a cure i think it's a little crazy but i mean hey you gotta do what you gotta do is no crazier than going to war and shooting people to get things done that is very true whether or not you agree with these women tactic the bottom line is it got the job done with no violence needed. article in a few moments or not say we've got a couple of main stories and then a very exciting technology a special edition for you this time around to stay with us here on alt.

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and back in with the live from moscow a quick recap of stories now libyan rebels are ready to stall mcduffie's hometown under a nato air shield in a desperate effort to find a fugitive colonel european governments and start their own fight for oil deals in the country. a draft resolution a deal is brewing at the u.n. security council russia and the west proposed two different approaches to tackling the escalating crisis in syria moscow's calling for peaceful dialogue in the conflict one country while the u.s. and europe want to change of power into. a world war two veteran who's leading a campaign to expose corruption in british courts is losing his battle that's off to his appeal against a six month.