libyan rebels are ready to storm the hometown under a nato desperate effort to find a fugitive. european governments start their own fight deals in the country. a draft resolution a jewel is brewing at the u.n. security council as russia in the west proposed two different approaches to tackling the escalating crisis in syria. a world war two veteran who is leading a campaign to expose corruption in british courts is losing his battle after an appeal against a six month jail sentence is dismissed. the other public looks to it's a newly elected president to rebuild the nation's economy which lies in ruin after years of struggling to maintain.

just after six pm on saturday here in. fierce fighting reported in parts of libya gadhafi remains at large but despite support of the rebels in the hunt for the fugitive coalition forces have launched an attack on his last remaining stronghold . pave the way for a full scale ground offensive by the rebels. in libya brings us this report from the humanitarian side of the conflict. in new libya these people look at the kid about the speed of the curfew. the

capital tripoli is enough for. the of 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 be overthrown peace is only for dirty things no only for doing the things he's fighting has continued since rebel forces and to tripoli during the week and much of the city baz cause a war on top of months of relentless bombing by nato you have it ends of the bloodshed emerged when hundreds of bodies were found in a hospital abandoned by stuff in the arrival of rebel forces with no one clear control many residents now live in fear of an icky and an armed man from both sides of the conflict. these men 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. there is no good factory anymore was the that the man says he would love to have another prize gadhafi has had. was breaking the back end of this was because of him to show this is something that you with their leader is the face of such and such people it was just one. side the greatest and i kind that's. still at large this guy is not yet over there is no. tripoli. but i want tripoli is celebrating the end of a dictatorship and lists are skeptical democracy is next and life in libya journalist pepe escobar told us that al-qaeda is already effectively and power in the capital. gass hole is that the fractal military commander of tripoli as we

speak so give you and me out still had came while had and he. asked that he was trained in afghanistan he was struck by the cia after nine eleven he was friends with sarkar when he was captured the most lesion 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 really just and now he's the military commander of trip from the beginning when the whole february seventh things movement was hijacked by the nato powers by the u.s. military defectors from tripoli everybody was working together including this are fiji hartis that's why we don't know what's going to happen next. while the un is calling for a halt to the violence in libya nato allies are already eyeing up the country's vast oil reserves countries who work together to break it off its rule and are

racing against each other to secure lucrative contracts. for other ports for years a new regime in libya could easily slide into corruption. half a billion dollars from is silly now what can one point five billion from the u.n. that three hundred million dollars from turkey it's questions abound about the future of the case libya is the money that's been talking the loudest governments have a strong interest. in. opening up business for. everybody is the 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 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 if it takes power but the question mark

remains a brick sakhi hugh these fast funds belong to the states which is coming to an end the borderline between. the problem his family and the wealthy were not very clear so it's hard to see hard march of this money was a direct emanation of the gulf as well and how much of it was actually. could be categorized as libyan assets exactly family were often accused of using libya's riches as their own personal pocket merely now there are concerns that the unfreezing of libyan assets without effective monitoring key to aid in the floodgates to new corruption. a lot of opportunities and everybody's trying to. you know it's sort of. we're trying to exploit this war as

best as we everybody. ghassan infrastructure projects to follow as the war torn country rebuilds everyone it seems wants a slice of the action a war is the nowadays indispensable for western economies with interest to leave. you destroy your view you destroy everything you review 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 where libya will mean big business. that is coming to you live from the heart of moscow and still to come in the program and the eye of the storm new york itself the arrival of hurricane irene as parts of the city are evacuated and public transport is being shut down. russia has introduced a draft resolution at the u.n. a security council designed to push the warring sides in syria towards peaceful

dialogue. proposal was based on a similar statement unanimously passed by the security council earlier this month but the draft could face stiff opposition from western countries who are calling for a change of power in syria but he's going to check out reports. it looks like we're going to see a battle of true 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 through very important points first of all because of 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 ambroid 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 a different species from two different planets so what we're seeing from. colleagues or u.k. and others it's completely biased and 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 be 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 resolution and propose an alternative to the security council of the world but the pervert involved in. for months russia has been pointing at the problem with the attitude the west the west worse the dramatic developments in syria also says that attitude to spain exclusively about exerting pressure on one of the parties namely the syrian government and president all sought which effectively it sends the wrong message to the syrian opposition prompting them to believe that if they remain insistent in this situation keeps getting critical. it 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 and now as for how the

resolution how far the resolution can go both russia and the u.s. have veto power as we no longer has 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. right there now or minutes past the hour here in moscow a british man who challenged the judiciary system in the u.k. to expose corruption within courts is losing his battle norman scott outspoken world war two veteran has lost an appeal against a six month jail sentence for recording a court hearing without permission but as artists laura reports the eighty six year old is determined to fight on with 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 where 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 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 season covering the corruption of the judiciary you see them frown upon a scar 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 or 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 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 stop him are we having theory in this country something called freedom of expression much as people's right to speak out about what they see is wrong as long as they're telling the truth. and i'm very worried this is an attempt to gag an elderly gentleman he may not always be right but he has a right to speak and luckily for scott he has friends with knowledge of the law and they're acting for him normally the porters the for his case here to the royal courts of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to him meanwhile claims he's being denied it and so medicate him in prison according to reports conditions in leeds prison are 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. every day because this law is what it's 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 laura and it's london i'll just tell you a quarter past the hour here in moscow major cities along the eastern seaboard of the u.s. including new york are bracing themselves for the wrath of hurricane irene it's expected to flood lower part of manhattan as public transport including a subway but we're shut down for the first time ever we create a category one storm forecasters say it remains extremely dangerous president obama has warned it could be historic his report has more from new york. 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 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 a 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 watch it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to a vacuum leak 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

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 stuff up on food stocked 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 said 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. neither from the big apple i will have you here and we invite you on a journey one thousand kilometers away from moscow. region right here our russian

close up team reports on how the region is leading the way in pioneering a project to find a home for. the russian navy has once again successfully test fired the country's newest ballistic missile designed to carry nuclear weapons the submarine based system the world create the country's atomic arsenal with a maximum range of eight thousand kilometers it can hold up to ten warheads to strike multiple targets the missiles also capable of making invasive maneuvers to avoid being shot down several previous test launches had been marred by failures which were blamed on production of the missiles will be installed on two russian nuclear submarines with more subs capable of carrying the weapon to be built over the next few years. the pentagon has issued a report warning that china is on track to becoming a leading military power by two thousand and twenty beijing it's called a document distorted it claims the country's expanding military capabilities could

potentially be stabilised the balance of power in asia over the past year china has developed a new stealth fighter an aircraft carrier and has made a record number of space launchers however beijing says it's the normal progression of its technology it's not targeting any supposed enemy an expert on asian and military affairs. says the u.s. is noting its own interests in 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 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 the military is are digging in their heels and so they're trowing up this kind of chinese bugaboo aircraft carriers this missile which can sink aircraft here it's not even cast it keep in mind they have lovely 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 or aircraft carriers they're 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 international headlines now in our world update here on out see hundreds of afghan militants have swept across the border into pakistan and attacked several security checkpoints that killed at least twenty six troops then seized other areas triggering a 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 now claimed responsibility. and to algeria now way a suicide attack on a military academy has killed at least eighteen most of them trainee offices but up

to twenty others were injured it happened in the city over a church reports say up to two bombers set off explosives of soldiers were breaking their ramadan fast although no one's claimed responsibility similar sorts have been blamed on the regional arm of al qaeda. in yemen is experiencing a sharp rise in the number of somali refugees flooding into the country thousands of choosing to cross the gulf of aden on overcrowded boats instead of seeking shelter in neighboring countries kenya being the largest host country and also suffering from famine has already received nearly heart and million somalis the drought has put about twelve million people at risk across ethiopia kenya djibouti and somalia. the former georgian republic of concept has elected a new leader following the death of its president alexander so off to other candidates to the top seed which will now occupy over the next five years and talk about reports there are some big business to be taken care of in the little little

country. former vice president alexander un vibe is now the president of the 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 voted turnout as a high seventy two percent all of this is made necessary by the death of the previous president surrogate baggage on the twenty ninth of may he died suddenly leaving a power vacuum in his place because people are going to expect a lot from mr and 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 abkhazia 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 and merrily the famous ones famous soviet holiday resorts along the coast here that will need to be built and also the agriculture and growing industries also very famous here but now very weak and if mr can build up both of those things he'll help this young republic to stand on its own two feet again. i think right now i do say with time to join our close ups here also across the world the largest country of course russia their chance to explore its historic regions and thousand year old traditions. and today we continue exploring russia's acute off region it's about a thousand kilometers away from moscow the area isn't just known for its folk art

and museums and theaters here family comes first and locals try to help all often kids to try and find a home as a he's even. never even children with physical mental and psychological disabilities don't feel abandoned. a part to be a personal tragedy and a difficulty to overcome being an orphan is also a social problem and russia thousands of thousands of orphans but the fact most of them have parents or relatives outside of the orphanage for these people simply do not offer them all calibers 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 provide but in the same region to try to say ok. with all these orphans we're receiving all these people put at least we

can do all of them a new home and that's what they're trying to do as you can see more of course. in russia it's hard enough to find a new family for healthy olson's it's even harder for children like these. serious physical mental all psychological disabilities. here at kira's orphanage 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 her six. or so many orphanages exist by themselves in isolation we are reaching out to the potential parents and the authorities and working with. their first course of action is to try and place the children back with parents who often give them up scared off. but the diagnoses 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 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. that has occurred but 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 more if you want but 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 may care for five new families these children are commendable but others only so much but an often it can be thought the problem of adoption that cost them not only adopted four children from orphanage number one but also sits on an adoptive parents committee yesterday building newbie i think the problem is the

social attitude towards the children it's not a case of money where an average family all the state support is really there you just have to love the children themselves i learned he was fourteen so she was betrayed by her parents and though some promised her daughter never did then 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 as a mystic with alaska. 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 you are ordinary of. your own region. more news from. twenty four seventh's on our website. right now. trying to learn more about the controversy

sparked of the american icon martin luther king's monument in washington which was designed. in the far east. has left a twenty six year old man. in russia's far east just days after a swimming ban was lifted. moscow out team explores the most spectacular fountain displays right here in the russian capital that's after. stories in just a few minutes. as

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