you know what's really happening to the global economy is really large on our. libyan rebels are ready to storm gadhafi his hometown under a nato air shield in a desperate effort to find a fugitive colonel that is european governments start their own fight for the oil deals in the country. a drought for a solution do is prove brewing at the u.n. security council as russia and the glass propose two different approaches to tackle the escalating crisis in syria. a world war two veteran who's leading a campaign to expose corruption in british courts is losing his battle rifle after an appeal against a six month jail sentence is dismissed. and the republic of cozumel looks to its newly elected president to rebuild the nation's economy which lies in ruins

south in years of struggling to maintain independence. a.p.m. here in the russian capital you're watching r.t. now fierce fighting reported in parts of libya as moammar gadhafi remains at large despite nato support of the rebels in the hunt for the fugitive colonel now coalition forces of launched an attack on his last remaining stronghold that off his hometown of sirte to pave the way for a full scale ground offensive by the rebels archy's maybe if it is in libya and brings us this report on the humanitarian side of the conflict. was. the hell the bible of the gadhafi regime is not heretical in new libya nobody's

seen the people nobody cares about this people if you think the capital tripoli is in your phoria the 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 the other thrown this is only for dirty things no only for the pings he is fighting has continued since rebel forces and to tripoli during the week and much of the city bears the scars of war on top of months of relentless bombing by nato and you have it ends 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 of armed men from both

sides of the conflict. in the basement proudly shows as a trophy one while he took part in the overrunning of conduct as residents covered his asea when we entered we saw many weapons and daiichi kuan there is no gadhafi anymore the that the man says he would love to have another prize that office had. was great and justice was the government to show this is something that should be their leader this is the model that ends it she was or she was. some writers and other kinds that's why did they kill still at large these bible is not yet over the result. cheerfully. i'll toss live now to chris for a killer who writes for the blog notes from a talking to us from portland thank you very much for joining us tonight about the

leader of the national transitional council the n.c.c. has admitted they've got no clue where gadhafi and his sons are hiding well there are reports suggesting that he might be algeria are zimbabwe now do you think the colonel has run away from the country about something he vowed he wouldn't do. i think it is a possibility of though i don't think it is likely. just the other day the rebel forces were able to take the border control control of the border with with neighboring tunisia i mean it would be very difficult for gadhafi to get through that border there's also the fact that as you mentioned he vowed that he was going to stay in the country. presence in libya oh would be the only inspiration that could be loyalist still have to continue fighting words come out that he had. what remaining. they would call immediately following up on that point if the rebels a do get don't get gadhafi and time what about his loyalty loyalist do you think

that they will continue to fight as he remains in hiding in the country if he is still in the country. i think it is possible. but that really depends upon how the transitional national council they can see he's able to secure the country right now there's still sporadic fighting in tripoli as you said strip the stronghold in sirte is still up for grabs as this conflict progressed will be more clear as to what happens clearly there will still be gadhafi loyalists out through the country is under control of the t.n.c. what matters is if the t.n.c. is able to provide the sort of security and policing required to prevent any sort of insurgency in the coming months yet you think they're able to i mean there are critics calling into question the of the m.t.c. . back order and control you're talking about the event on the street how do you think they're going to be able to do that you think they're capable of this is one

of the biggest challenges that is facing the interim government right now. with the forces that they have it's a very diverse group there are over thirty major tribes of hundred forty tribes in general there are over forty eight at last count into it. but have to come under the authority of a national government in order for there to be real security being said the transitional national. clear steps to bring everything under one transport parents already without without doing this. there could be independent militias trying to mean. in revenge killings it would be much more difficult to proactively targeted any loyalist insurgency that happens. it will be remaining it remains to be seen if they will be able to to do this it's a major task it's one thing that we did not happen in iraq or afghanistan. it's

a large task for the t.n.c. but if i suppose it is possible this is where you're bringing up a lot of the possibilities for still continue to violence a potential conflict in the country so i would bring them together as one challenge but what about them talking about a potential election in eight months time do you think that's even realistic you have. the possibility of taking conflict in the country i think that is neither realistic nor a good idea. is the first step that we can see need to take these security without proper security any sort of elections will be a farce even the most minor case of violence can just can throw the elections interim or. not to mention affected eight months the there won't be any political power. these are they might be political parties but they'll be in the very beginning of organization there won't be an effective campaign in election in eight months i believe would just be confirmation of the t.n.c.

giving them more legitimacy it would basically guarantee an election of the current leadership rather than a free and fair election ok let's just look at how this the rebels got this far the rebels say that they would not have managed to take top rising of this far without nato assess as to how much of a nationwide revolution is it really. i think it would be an error to discredit the rebels for what they have done so far clearly nato played a major role in this revolution without nato the revolution would have died probably a long time ago however without the the rebels on the ground themselves nato would not have been able to do anything to sort of a mutual dependency between the too. much credit needs to be given to the real. armies ok i have just very quickly according to the pentagon the u.s. has already spent almost a billion dollars in its campaign to libya and this is at a time where the country's economy is struggling to stay afloat what does that that's say about washington's priorities. well a billion dollars is

a lot of money to a lot of people for the united states to spend six point nine billion dollars in iraq every year six point seven every month six point seven billion in afghanistan every month billion dollars is not actually that much money it does sound ridiculous to say however. the white house could. prioritize things differently in libya and spent a lot more money and committed a lot more political capital obviously by committing the u.s. this far into the conflict in libya this is become president obama's war this is something that he cannot afford to lose. likewise if libya is to fall into chaos into an insurgency of some sort after the fall of gadhafi this would reflect . on obama so while i don't believe that he has made a. major goals or part there are a lot of risks for obama ok well thank you very much for your insight there

christopher killer who's right writing for the blog notes from medina talking to us from portland there thank you thank you. and while the a un is calling for a halt to violence in libya nato allies are already eyeing up the country's vast oil reserves countries who've worked together to break it off his rule are now racing against each other to secure lucrative energy contracts or further of course it's led to fears a new regime in libya could easily slide into corruption. half a billion dollars from italy now what can one point five billion from the u.n. that and to pursue three hundred million dollars from turkey this is questions of downs about the future of the case exactly libya is the money that's been talking aloud governments have a strong interest. in funnels. opening up business for.

everybody is reason for its lead foreign minister has tonight 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 case trade ties they enjoyed and they get back the regime but as the money begins to flow to help the national transitional council and it takes power a big question mark remains a very exactly he lets fast funds belong to indian gadhafi states which is coming to an end the borderline between wealth the problem 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 emanation of the calf its wealth of wealth and how much of it was actually . could be categorized as libyan assets to get out the family were authentic keys of easing libya's riches as their own personal pocket money now there are concerns

that they are freezing of libyan assets without affecting monitoring key to aid in the floodgates to new corruption is now a land of opportunity for everybody trying to. you know it's a sort of group of hooty trying to exploit this war as the best of everybody political gas and infrastructure projects to follow as the water on country rebuilds and. everyone it seems wants a slice it be action a war is not what is indispensable for a western economy it's worser industries salute. you destroy your view you throw your review it's like the three stooges it's only that i've been trying to keep the national transitional council. like it or not in many western countries a place where libya would mean big business. and coming up

in the program in the eye of the storm new york is bracing itself for the arrival of a hurricane i read that as parts of the city are evacuated and public transport has been shut down. now russia has introduced a draft resolution at the u.n. security council designed to push the warring sides in syria towards peaceful dialogue moscow says its proposal is based on a similar statement in obviously 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 are she's going to check out reports. 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 graphic 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 costs for dialogue it calls for restraint on both sides and here is more on that from russia's and the united nations who spoke with us earlier if there are some constructive ideas from our colleagues were prepared to absorb them but of course simply you know marrying the two. different species from two different planets so what we have seen from. colleagues or u.k.

and others it's completely biased on that. exclusively on the syrian government that doesn't have anything but the need for dialogue doesn't go to your position for dialogue and our concern is that it's going to be the more extreme the more destructive elements of the syrian opposition towards. the even stronger efforts in the article caught all of the syrian government so that's why we don't like all. the callers are trying to achieve but i got a resolution from the propose an alternative to keep the security council of the world but never to broaden. because of work 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 sucked which effectively sends the wrong message to the syrian opposition prompting them

to believe that if they remain insistent in this situation could get in 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 for how the resolution how far the resolution can go both russia and the u.s. have powers we know along with china the u.k. and france and that means whatever resolution comes out at the end of the day it has to be acceptable for at least all of the five permanent members of the u.n. security council if they don't agree there is going to be no resolution. a british who challenge the judiciary system in the u.k. to expose corruption within courts is losing his battle norman scarth and outspoken world war two veteran has lost an appeal against a six month jail sentence for recording a court hearing without permission as artie's or emma reports the eighty five 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 the role in the recent riots in england if they're sent to leeds prison they'll be languishing alongside eighty five year old norman scar he plight the arctic sea cheering the second world war serving his country taking essential supplies to the suv union on the most dangerous journey in the world and now he's serving six months in prison on the with a british judge. his crime was causing a court hearing he said he did it because he's hard of hearing but the judge didn't accept that it was a very harsh sentence and i believe it was because season covering the corruption of the judiciary you see them frown upon a scot 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 scott 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 church was trying to shut him up we have in theory in this country something called freedom of expression much as 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 get an elderly gentleman who may not always be right but he has a right to be here luckily for scott he has friends with knowledge of the law and they're acting for him normally but the court at the for his case here to the boil court of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to have meanwhile

claims he's being denied it until 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 allocated scott also says he's being denied access to a lawyer by his jailers children going on every day every fall with this law is what would drive. 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 london. the major cities along the eastern seaboard of the u.s. including new york are bracing themselves for the wrath of here again i remain and it's expected to flood parts of lower manhattan as public transport including the subway has been shut down well despite it weakening to a category forecasters say it remains. and president obama has warned it could be

historic archy's medina portnoy has more now from new york. public transportation in new york city including the metro and buses have come to a halt as new york city prepares for this is dangerous and possibly destructive hurricane 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 the low rise areas these are areas all throughout new york there are very close to the water and it is estimated that more than two hundred thousand new yorkers will have to evacuate their homes and go to shelters close to seventy shelters have been set up in new york city in preparation

for this hurricane hurricane i read it's also been recommended to anyone that lives of the tenth floor to a vacuum wait from their building this storm is expected to hit the city by nine pm with when gusting anywhere between forty and eighty miles per hour u.s. president barack obama has issued a state of emergency for new york meaning that new york will receive federal funding obama did cut his vacation short and headed back to the white house on friday he said that this is a historic storm and everyone in its path should prepare for the worst 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. and just to remind you more news a bit here is an updates are waiting for you on our web site that's r t v dot com and here's what's online right now born in atlanta killed in memphis and made in china learn more about the controversy sparked over the american i can and martin luther king's monument in washington which was designed to escort didn't put together in the far east. and a third a shark attack has left a twenty six year old man a savage dead russia's far east just days after a sweeping battle was lifted. for the former georgian republic of a cause that has elected a new leader following the death of its presidents that on the assault to other candidates to the top seed which will now walk apart for the next five years

there's already saw garton reports there are some big business to be taken care of in the little country. former vice president alexander un vibe 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 presidents surrogate by a gap which on the twenty ninth of may he died suddenly leaving a 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 our cars year after a war away to the east in south korea 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 ones 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. now let's join our close a team of their travels across the world's largest country russia exploring its historic regions and thousand year old traditions. today we continue exploring russia's kirov region some one thousand kilometers from moscow all the area isn't just known for its folk art and way of my daughter's here

family concert first local strive to help all orphaned kids find a home as art is equal but i've never ports even children with physical mental and psychological disabilities don't feel about it. being 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 the 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 force these children to be taken away how can they be tackled so it's not necessarily something that either an individual or for the job or an individual part of russia can provide but then save the care of region by trying they're saying ok we are being dealt with all these orphans we're receiving all these people but at least all we can do is provide all of them

a new home and that's what they're trying to do as you can see more appalled. in russia it's hard enough to find a new family for filthy old friends it's even harder for children like these. serious physical and mental all psychological disabilities. but carers finish number one they manage it well in russia there are currently hundred fifty thousand children who haven't been adopted here ninety eight. sent of all orphans find a new family of four to six times the trailers 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 often and show that with the right care these children can lead normal lives the parents have to prove their attitude has changed for other potential doctors their

educational courses and ongoing medical support all basics and the worst but hardly universal in russia yet staff say these on the main reasons for their success. there 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 quick straw poll shows as much. of our young people 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. here the new families for these children are commendable but under is only so much but often it can do the thought the problem of adoption castilla not only dr for children from orphanage number one but also sits on an adoptive parents committee yes legal 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 us did support is really there you just have to love the children themselves. i learned she was fourteen so she was betrayed by her parents and those who promised to adopt her and 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. with a lot. so the more often it does make an effort to connect with the world outside an adoption becomes more widespread and society will be more happy endings like this one either ordinary artsy kid or region. oh you're watching our team i'll be back with a recap of our top stories south are sharp right.

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