very truly the torch was the blues girl until you can a listen to chill chill as mr richard suggested to go clear read this in the can it was natural to retreat. libyan rebels are ready to storm gadhafi is home town under a nato air shield in a desperate effort to find the fugitive last as european governments start their own fight for oil deals in the country. 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. in the eye of the storm and new york braces itself for the fossil pro-trade here in irene as all public transportation is down at a state of emergency declared. the republic of casa looks to its newly elected president to rebuild the nation's economy which lies in ruins after years

of struggling to maintain the president's. broadcasting live from our studios in moscow you're watching r.t. now fierce fighting reported in parts of libya as more market off he 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 that's going off his hometown of sirte to pave the way for a full scale ground offensive by the rebels artie's mehdi a financial that is in libya and she brings us this report on the humanitarian side of the conflict. and how the bible. is not heretical book in a new lead. nobody's seen the people nobody cares about this really for you. 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 the other throne this is only for directed things no only for to get things these fighting has continued since rebel forces and to 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 softly in the arrival of rebel forces with no one clear control and many residents now live in fear of anarchy and of armed men from both sides of the conflict. the basement proudly shows as

a trophy one while he took part in the overrunning of conduct his residence bubble is asea when we entered we saw many weapons and. there's no gadhafi anymore the that the man says he would love to have another prize gadhafi is has. was great way to conduct this weekend and to show this substance here with their leader is the final say and to keep. some writers and other kinds that's. still at large this battle is not yet over results not chiefly. a quest for a killer who writes for the blog from a medina told r.t. that if the libyan rebels fail to restore peace it could be embarrassing for one of their main supporters the u.s. president. clearly there will still be

a few loyalists after 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 and the coming months obviously by committing the us this far into the conflict in libya and this is becoming president obama's war this is something that he cannot afford to lose. likewise if libya is to pour into chaos into an insurgency of some sort after the fall of gadhafi this would reflect poorly on obama so while i don't believe he has made his major goal so far there are a lot of risks for obama. and while the u.n. is calling for a halt to violence in libya they to our allies are already eyeing up the countries vast oil reserves a conference of work together to break a rule are now racing against each other to secure

a lucrative energy contracts as arky sara for three ports that's led to fears that 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. . three hundred million dollars from turkey it's questions abound about the future of a case here is the money that's been talking the loudest governments have a strong interest in helping out me. opening up business for. everybody is raising its lead foreign minister has denied there's a race on with france to be the first on the ground to restart business in libya and the italians have me clear their eagerness to maintain the extremely case trade ties they enjoyed and they get the regime that is the money begins to flow aid to help the national transitional council and it takes power the big question mark

remains a very exactly he is fast funds belong in do you get our state 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 in the nation of darkness wealth probably 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 key to aid in the floodgates to new corruption leaders nalanda opportunities everybody for into i think you know it's sort of. trying to exploit this war as

a. political gas and infrastructure projects to follow as the water on country rebuilds everyone it seems. well the slice of the action in a war is nowadays indispensable for western economies western history. you destroy your ability to read your review it's like. it's not just italy that have been trying to keep the national transitional council on like it or not and many western countries a place for libya would mean big business. say the land but in an arc already peace activists who was in libya earlier this month that france is already beating italy in its race for oil deals. though and by qatar and saudi arabia they need to do a lot of crying and they say nato is not long enough fran let stand her underdone

see a new younger viewers in this war that. you can't go with. for twenty eight billion dollars eataly has only gone to work for a round point five billion dollars because maybe didn't do so much as saw or race economies making the wars and greed making it worse. and coming up in the program and the eye of the storm new york is bracing itself for the arrival of hurricane irene as parts of the city are evacuated and public transport has been shut down. a british man who challenged the judiciary system in the u.k. to expose corruption within the courts is losing his battle. and elsewhere could world war two veteran has lost an appeal against a six month jail sentence for recording a court hearing without permission. or and records the eighty five year old is determined to fight on this 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 if they're sent to leeds prison they'll be languishing alongside eighty five year old norman scar he played 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 it was because she's a recovering the corruption of the judiciary she done frown upon a scar is no stranger to the legal system he won a case in the european court of human rights banning 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 of those who disagree with them. that's why m.p. john hemming suspects the church was trying to shut him ark we have in theory in this country something called freedom of expression which is people's right to speak out about what they see as wrong as long as they're telling the truth and very worried this is an attempt to gag an elderly gentleman who may not always be right but he has a right to. luckily the scars he has friends with knowledge of the law and they're acting for him normally par for the course of the for his case here for the oil court of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to him meanwhile

claims he's being denied it then chill 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 droid on every day and every call this law is equally challenged. 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 artie london. and major cities along the eastern seaboard of the us including new york are bracing themselves for the wrath of here again i really expected to flood parts of lower manhattan as public transport including the subway has been shut down all despite it weakening to a category one storm forecasters say it remains extremely dangerous and president

obama has warned it could be historic artie's marina portnoy has more 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 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 that 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 irene it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to a vacuum leak from their building this storm is expected to hit the city by nine pm with wind 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 winded 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. well we're closely following the developments of the u.s. on our web site where the potentially historic here again is approaching right now where you can see on your screen we're broadcasting live images from the new york city as well as the coastal city of kill devil hills in the state of north carolina you can log on to r.t. dot com and witness the rapidly deteriorating weather of the american city. now the pentagon's issued a report warning that time is on track to becoming a leading a military power by twenty twenty beijing has 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 and has made a record number of space launches however beijing says it's the normal progression of its technology and is not targeting any supposed enemy an expert on asian military affairs conn hallinan says the u.s. is nursing its own interests in making a 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 to the regain sure that we can keep a large military footprint in asia but it also has to do with internal matters to push to cut the military budget the arms companies and the military assured getting in their heels and shoulders trowing up this kind of chinese bugaboo aircraft carriers this missile which can sink your craft here it's not even majestic keep in mind they have one aircraft carrier which is one half the sorry of american

aircraft carriers i'm not going to millikan's have chand nimitz class aircraft carrier so even if they build one or two or even three were at risk areas they are nowhere near the level they would need to challenge the united states. now let's take a brief look at some other news from around the world to algeria where a heart attack on a military academy has killed at least eighteen and most of them a trainee officers after twenty others were injured by what happened in the city of church reports say up to two bomber 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. prominent indian activist likened to gandhi has agreed to end his twelve the hunger strike which he was in during a campaign for anti aircraft legislation comes after the country's parliament express non-binding support for

a series of anti corruption proposals that are hazaar it was supporting however the legislation is likely to take some time to come into force thousands gather to celebrate the success of the seventy four year old his role in helping india take a huge step forward towards the story of the. yemen is experiencing a sharp rise in the number of famine here somali refugees flooding into the country thousands are choosing to cross the gulf of aden and overcrowded boats instead of seeking shelter in neighboring countries cannot be the largest host country and also suffering for five and has already received nearly half a million somalis the drought has put about twelve million people at risk across ethiopia kenya. somalia but it's a big day for the former georgia republic of which has elected a new leader following the death of its president in may the victor saw two other

candidates to the top seat which he will now walk apart for the next five years and as our 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 our cars here the central election commission announced that he took fifty five percent of the one hundred two votes cast and they put voter turnout at a high seventy two percent 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 you have cars and 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 and also the agriculture and fruit 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. well now it's time to join our close up team and their travels across the world's largest country russia exploring its historic regions and thousand year old traditions. and today we continue exploring russia's regions some one thousand kilometers from

moscow bay area isn't just known for its folk art and array of museums and theaters here and family comes first and locals tried to help all orphaned kids find a home and start easy go to good old have reports even children with physical mental and psychological disabilities don't feel abandoned. apart from being a personal tragedy and it difficult to overcome being an orphan there's also social problem in russia thousands of thousands of orphans but in fact most of them have either parents or relatives outside of the orphanage but these people simply do not want to look after them or calibra trusted to do so so this is something that needs to be solved on a social level general social problem the for these children to be taken away how can they be tackled so it's not necessarily something that either an individual orphanage or an individual part of russia can provide but in the same region they're trying to say ok we're being dealt with all these orphans we're receiving

all these people but at least all we can do is provide all of them a new home and 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 all phones it's even harder for children like these all of them diagnosed with serious physical mental all psychological disabilities. but here at the care of 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 percent of all orphans find a new family before the six. many orphanages exist by themselves in isolation we are reaching out to the potential parents and the authorities and working with them. first schools of action is to try and place the children back with logical parents who often give them up scared off the diagnoses often and show that with

the right care these children can lead normal lives and parents have to prove their attitude has changed for other potential adopters through 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 you miss. 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 us much more fearful that 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 if the orphanage is track record as anything to go by they'll soon find a family. of five new families but these children are commendable but under the only so worked up and often it can do to solve the problem of adoption tearing across the not only adopted four children from orphanage number one but also sits on an

adoptive parents committee yes the bill can you but 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. i learned i think fourteen says she was betrayed by her parents and they said. they did then she finally found a secure group in the home we were always just a part of the group but here in the family you're needed by someone there is no tenderness no love i'm happy. 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. hands on me here with you know like the tone of a who's a citizen of the hopefully should provide us with the normal person's perspective on adoption all these officials are telling us that the situation with adoption is

improving more and more children finding new parents from your own observations is this the case is a becoming more popular yeah i think that this is usually the doctor who has just recently been beheld from st peter's region and there are more and more here and some who want the babies from children's films because either they have health problems all the wrong to come up here or bolts maybe some of them want a little payments from the government just to prove. i know there are people who are wrong all the jews they're very respected people and. have a good future they have good jobs and professions so they did their best to achieve big names in their life but do you think there's still some discrimination they think when people say this person is an orphan you know it changes their opinion

about this person i think it happens in our world but i can feel this a teaching is changing with this point too because people are quiet all around and even in our region among. my colleagues they acquired the children from awful jews thank you very much because they can see them accountable who lives there and that you've been talking to us about the. now authorities in colombia have given into the demands of hundreds of women that after they ran to any such strike earlier this month they spent thirty eight days spurning their husbands advances until a mountain highway which connects their remote community so the wider world was repaved well this week gloria often is also known as a resident is asking people in new york what they would be willing to abstain for.

in the strike across legs colombian women with health backs to get a road paved what is she would you withhold sex for this week let's talk about well right now the economy we need to do about that so. that will get better gas. that also i think it's he says to be to still make six we were in france maybe for world peace or to end hunger or something like that nothing nothing no i don't think so. the deficit. in congress. so if american women back to having sex do you think it would change things here we would solve the deficit crisis very quickly what was going to do it was going to do and if that's the only way to get their man motivated i can understand it or get me on the show pretty quick is there any thing that you would withhold facts for are you kidding no i think it's effective tactic. it certainly works there yes good for

them do you think it would work anywhere in the world yes the men and women in are at the same way everywhere do you think it would work if men without sides to get something done no i mean if it weren't sure i think it's a little crazy but i mean hey you got to do what you got it 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. we're watching our tina will be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments.

last time the close up team was in our movie where the gold rush still gets people to hike up. this time far she goes to cure old region. where the local government is giving power back to the people. where every orphan

will be adopted. where locals turn their land into a curse paradise well come to fruition should close out on r g. twenty years ago largest country. in. general. where did it take them.