broadcasting live from our studios in moscow 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 and the hunt for the fugitive colonel our coalition forces have launched an attack on his last remaining stronghold that's got off his hometown of sirte to pave the way for a full scale ground offensive by the rebels are very often atia is a libya and she brings us this report on the humanitarian side of the conflict. was there but it was. the hell the bible of the khadafi regime is now a heretical book in a 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 been overthrown this is only for dirty things no only for dirty things fees 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 starfleet in the 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. these men proudly shows as a trophy one while he took part in the overrunning of conduct these residents. but

as a zia when we entered we saw many weapons and. there was no good stuff for you anymore . but the man says he would love to have another prize khadafi has had. was great that way i can tough it all just like government to show this to the dutch it with their leader is the model said and to keep a modest what was said the greatest and not the kind that's the kind of still at large this battle is not yet over my notion of. tripoli. a christopher a killer who writes for the blog and notes 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 us president clearly there will still be khadafi 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 uncertainty in the coming months obviously by committing the us this far into the conflict in libya and 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 poorly on obama so while i don't believe that he has made it he is a 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 nato allies are already eyeing up the country's vast oil reserves all countries who work together to break gadhafi is rule are now racing against each other to secure lucrative energy contracts. reports it's led to fears that a new regime in libya could easily slide into corruption. half

a billion dollars from italy now a whopping one point five billion from the u.n. all that until three hundred million dollars from turkey is discussions a bound about the future of the case could definitely libya is 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 me 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 wealth the problem well for the good of its family and the wealth of the state not very clear so of it's hard to see how much of this money was a direct emanation of this 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 ate in 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 as best everybody lucrative oil gas and infrastructure projects to follow as the war torn country rebuilds

every. one it seems wants a slice of the action a war is now what is indispensable for western economies western industries. 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 sight like it or not the many western countries a place for libya will mean big business so if. the land but in iraq already peace activists who was in libya earlier this month france is already beating italy and its race for oil deals. by nato and by god and saudi arabia they need to do a lot of crimes and they say to nato is not long enough friend let it stand under the new young so you are seeing this war. has already gone to doctor with the. sort of twenty eight billion dollars you tell you know is only going to work for

all wrong point five billion dollars the because maybe didn't do so much as saw a race economy making the wars and the greed making wars. and coming up in the program and the eye of the storm nor 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 traditional system in the u.k. to expose corruption within courts is losing his battle norman scarth an outspoken world war two veteran has lost an appeal against a six month jail sentence for recording a court hearing without permission. or end of reports the eighty five year old is determined to fight on with 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 and if they're sent to leeds prison they'll be languishing alongside eighty five year old norman scar 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 it was because he's a recovering 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 bombings secret hearings yet still some cases in england all heard behind closed doors and recording and taking photographs is forbidden unlike in other e.u.

countries scarth attends demonstrations where he shouts about corruption in the police and judiciary saying lawyers police and the courts are in cahoots and regularly persecution 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 that is people's right to speak out about what they see as wrong as long as they're telling the truth and i'm very worried this is an attempt to gag an elderly gentleman may not always be right but he has a right to be here luckily for scott he has friends with knowledge of the law and they're acting for him normally the porter them for his case here to the boil court of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to heaven meanwhile claims he's being denied essential medication in prison according to. poor conditions in leeds prison. the war veteran can't get any exercise because he's unable to walk

for the entire hour allocated scott also says he's being denied access to a lawyer by his jailers description going on every day every call even if it's. 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 a major cities along the eastern seaboard of the u.s. including new york are bracing themselves for the wrath of here again irene 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 one storm forecasters say it remains extremely dangerous and president obama has warned it could be historic artie's medina 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 i read it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to a vacuum wait from their building this storm is expected to hit the city by nine pm

with the 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 in the u.s. on our website where the potentially historic here again is approaching right now where you can see on your screen we're broadcasting live images from new york city as well as the coastal city of kill devil hills in the state of north carolina you can log on to our view dot com and witness the of rapidly deteriorating weather on the american people. now the pentagon's issued a report warning that china is on track to becoming a leading a military power by twenty twenty but beijing has called the document distorted it claims the country's expanding military capabilities could potentially destabilize the balance of power in asia well 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 and 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 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 arms companies and the military assure digging in their heels and shoulders trowing up this kind of chinese bugaboo aircraft carriers this missile which can sink aircraft here it's not even been tested keep in mind they have one aircraft carrier which is one half the sorry of american aircraft carriers they're not going to millikan's have an nimitz class aircraft carrier so even if they built one or two or even three more aircraft carriers

they're nowhere near the level they would need to challenge the united states. well let's take a brief look at some other news from around the world to all dearie where a heart attack on a military academy has killed at least eighteen and most of them a trainee officers up to twenty others were injured now it happened in the city of charity 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. prominent indian activist likened to gandhi has agreed to end his twelve day hunger strike which he was in during a campaign for anti graft legislation it comes after the country's parliament expressed non-binding support for a series of anti corruption proposals that it was supporting however the legislation is likely to take some time to come into force thousands gathered to

celebrate the success of the seventy four year old and 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 his 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 can be the largest host country and also suffering for famine has already received nearly half a million somalis the drought has put about twelve million people at risk across ethiopia kenya and somalia and 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 she'll 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 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 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 a 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 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. 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 region as some one thousand kilometers from moscow the area isn't just known for its folk art and array of museums and theaters here a family comes first and locals tried to help all orphaned kids find

a home and authorities you go to good old never poor seven children with physical mental and psychological disabilities don't feel abandoned. being a personal tragedy and a difficulty to overcome being an orphan is also a social problem and russia there are thousands of thousands of orphans but the fact most of them are parents or relatives outside of the orphanage but these people simply do not want to look after them or 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 and 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 then the same in the care of region to try to say ok we're being dealt with all these orphans we're receiving all these people but at least we can do is find them a new home and trying to do as you can see my report. in

russia it's hard enough to find a new family for healthy all friends it's even harder for children like these all of them diagnosed with serious physical mental or psychological disabilities. but here at cairo's orphanage number one they manage it while in russia there are currently a hundred and fifty thousand children who haven't been adopted here ninety eight percent of all orphans find a new family before their six and. 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 that often it shows that with the right care these children can lead normal lives the parents have to prove their attitude has changed for other potential adopters 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 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 as much as we have here but i don't 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. the far 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 the bill 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 a who's fourteen says she was betrayed by her parents and those who promised to adopt her and never did then she finally found a secure group when you're in the home you are always just a part of the group but here in the family united by someone there is not tenderness i'm happy. so often it does make an effort to connect with the world outside an adoption becomes more widespread in society they'll be more happy endings like this one. i'm suddenly here with you know make up a ton of who's a citizen of the hopefully should provide us with a mobile fossils perspective on adoption now all these officials are telling us that the situation with adoption is improving more and more children are finding new parents now from your own observations is this the case is

a becoming more popular yeah i think that this if you shoot the adult truth has changed recently in because the country has been here. and there are more and more parents and people who want to take babies from children scams because either they have health problems all the wrong to somebody to hear about maybe some of them want a little claimants from the government chosen to rule. i know people who are wrong all hinges their very perspective people and they. have a good future they have good jobs and professions so they did their best to achieve the same scene their life what do you think 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 the world but i can see that the situation is changing with this point because the people are quite tall around and even in our

region and one of my colleagues they have white we have the children from awful jews thank you very much i'll be speaking to a couple who lives there and that she's been talking to us about the. now authorities in colombia have given in to the demands of hundreds of women after they went on a sex strike earlier this month while they spent thirty eight days spurning their husbands advances until a mountain highway which connects their remote community to the wider world was repaved all this week glory and it's also known as the resident is asking people in new york what they would be willing to abstain for. 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

all right now the economy we need doing something about that so. it will get better gas. that also i think he says he's just too busy to still make six we were in france maybe for world peace or to end hunger or something like that no nothing nothing no i don't think so. the deficit. in congress is that it's so if american women stop having sex do you think it would change things here we would have 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 money motivated i can understand it would get me on the show pretty quick 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 socks 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 to 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 i got the job done with no violence needed. you're watching our tina i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments.

last time the close up team was a moon beach where the gold rush still gets people hiked up. this time margi 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 tourist paradox welcome to. russia close up on r g.

twenty years ago in the largest country in the. two cases of. what had been. to teach began a journey. where did it take to. come

back well these are the main stories making headlines here are the libyan rebels are ready to storm gadhafi is home. field in a desperate effort to find a fugitive colonel. start their own fight for oil deals in the country. a world war two veteran who's leading a campaign to expose corruption and british courts is losing his battle for his appeal against a six month sentence was dismissed he was jailed for making all the recordings at hearings but claims courts are simply trying to. of the storm in new york city braces itself for the fast approaching hurricane irene as all public transportation is shut.