resulted silje on a cold cold which would result much rules over the closer to. reveal wreckage on the cruise control which will make. libyan rebels are ready to storm gadhafi as hometown for a nato air shield in a desperate effort to find a fugitive colonel pulled out as european governments start their own fight for oil deals in the country. a world war two veteran who's leading a campaign to expose corruption in the british courts is a losing his battle after an appeal against a six month jail sentence is dismissed. in the eye of the storm right here you are places that sell for the last approaching hurricane ivan as all public transportation is shut down the state of emergency declared.

just after one am here in the russian capital and you're watching our t.v. there are still fierce fighting in libya as rebels continue their search for moammar gadhafi nato coalition forces have launched an attack on his last remaining stronghold that sirte to pave the way for a full scale ground offensive by the rebels well they're worried about gadhafi stockpile of weapons including mustard gas which they fear the colonel could decide to use if he's cornered meanwhile the bodies are piling up with numerous reports of a process he's on both sides while the from social council struggles to bring stability to the devastated capital and with fighting in tripoli rule archly over residents now face severe fuel and food shortages with little electricity or running water in a city of two million people argues but if it all should that is in libya and she brings us. this report on the humanitarian side of the conflict.

was. the hell the bible of the khadafi regime is not heretical in new libya at least the people who look at it came about this really argue. the capital tripoli is a new phoria the a people may not know for sure what the future will bring but they know that the past will never return. everything that might remind people of all decades of dictatorship is being overthrown this is only for dirty things no only for data things these fighting has continued since the 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 you have it ends of the blanchett emerged when hundreds of bodies were found

in a hospital abandoned by starfleet in the arrival of rebel forces and 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 his residence double as a zia when we entered we saw many weapons and. there's no good time for you anymore the but the man says he would love to have another prize gadhafi has had. was it was pretty tough just like doesn't this show this is something to do with their leader this is the model that the sheeple. what. was not the kind that's become still at large these guys is not yet over your emotional. tripoli. christopher killer who writes for the blog

notes from a video told r.t. that if the libyan rebels fail to restore peace it could be a bar scene for one of their main supporters the u.s. president. clearly there will still be gadhafi loyalists after the country's under control of the t.n.c. what matters is if the t.n.c. is able to provide the sort of security and we've seen required to prevent any sort of insurgency in the coming months obviously being the u.s. 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. he's to pull 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 a. major goal so far there are a lot of risks for obama and the u.n.

is calling for a halt to violence in libya nato allies are already on the country's vast oil reserves all countries who've worked together to break these rule are now racing against each other to secure lucrative energy contracts. for three ports it's led to fears a new version libya could easily slide into corruption. half a billion dollars from italy now a whopping one point five billion from the u.n. . three hundred million dollars from turkey it's a scotians abound about the future of the paste exactly libya it's the money that's been talking the loudest governments have a strong interest in. opening up business and. everybody is raising 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

and the italians have me clear their eagerness to maintain the extremely close trade ties they enjoyed under the gadhafi 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 he is fast funs along in the states which is coming to an end the borderline between the wealthy the problem well photograph his family and the wealth of the state were not very clear so it's hard to see how march of this money was a direct emanation of gadhafi as well of wealth and how much of it was actually. could be categorized as libyan assets because iraqi family were authentic cheesed of using libya's riches as their own personal pocket money now there are concerns that they are freezing of libyan assets without effective monitoring kids aping the

floodgates to new corruption in our land of opportunity everybody is trying to. you know it's a sort of new movie be trying to exploit this war as best of what police could have gas and infrastructure projects to follow as the water on country rebuilds everyone it seems. well it's a slice of the action a war is not what is indispensable for western economies worser interest to leave. you destroy your ability for review review it's like a vicious circle it's not just italy that have been trying to keep the national transitional council on like it or not so many western countries a place for libya would mean big business there for. the land. colonel a career journey through peace activists who was in libya earlier this month says that france is already beating italy in its race for oil deals.

or and by god and so you need yeah the me to do a lot of crimes and not bomb being enough strand a stand on didn't see the new young you are in this war. has already gone in october with. the end for twenty eight billion dollars you tell years only conflicts moral wrong point five billion dollars because maybe didn't do so much as saw a race economy making the war and. making. all coming up in the program or in the eye of the storm new york is bracing itself for the arrival of hurricane irene as parts of the city are evacuated their public transport has been shut down. the british man who challenged the judiciary 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 a report 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 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 she's uncovering the corruption

that the judiciary schiedam frown upon make scott is no stranger to the legal system he won a case in the european court of human rights and planning secret hearings yet still some cases in england all heard behind closed doors and recording and taking photographs is forbidden unlike in other 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 judge 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 that this is an attempt to get an elderly gentleman who may not always be right but he has a right here luckily for scott he has friends with knowledge of the law and they're

acting for him not with the court of the for his case here to the moral courts of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to heaven meanwhile the guard 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. every game every. 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 your emmett r.t. london. major cities along the eastern seaboard of the u.s. including new york are bracing themselves for the wrath of hurricane irene that's

expected to flood parts of lower manhattan as public transport including the subway has been shut down or despite it weakening to a category one storm forecasters say it remains extremely dangerous and president obama has warned it could be historic archy's marina 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 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 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 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 and 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 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. but the pentagon has issued a report warning that china is on track to becoming a leading military power by twenty twenty by beijing has called the document distorted it claims the country's expanding military capabilities could potentially be stabilize the balance of power in asia over the past year and it 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 it's not targeting any suppose of enemy an expert on asian

military affairs. the us is nursing its own interests and making a fuss around china. are going on right now in the united states and and some of the used because they want to raise the chinese up to the real 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 the arms companies and you know it curious are digging in their heels and shoulders trowing up this kind of chinese bugaboo aircraft carriers this missile which can sink your craft here it's going to. keep in mind they have learned here carrier which is one half the sorry of american aircraft carriers you know millikan's chan nimitz class aircraft carrier 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. well now let's take

a brief look at some other news from around the world a suspected al qaeda operations chief has been killed in pakistan's tribal region of was serious stuff that's according to u.s. officials that's the year of a who was reportedly second on the list of top five militants in the region wanted by the u.s. he was believed to be a close confidant of the son of a large and whisk. pakistan by american special forces in may i would all run by the joint of bin laden in afghanistan as a teenager in the eighty's and was well known as an explosives expert. to all jiri an hour a suicide attack at a military academy has killed at least eighteen most of them trainee officers well up to twenty others were injured and it happened in the city of church reports say up to two bomber set off their explosives and soldiers were breaking their ramadan fast although no one has claimed responsibility similar assaults have been blamed

on the regional arm of al qaida. a prominent indian activist like into 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 are now 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 and his role in helping india take a huge therefore towards a historic rural. yemen is experiencing a sharp rise in the number of famine hit somali refugees flooding into the country thousands are choosing to cross the gulf of aden overcrowded goats instead of seeking shelter in neighboring countries can be the largest host country and also suffering for it has already received nearly half

a million somalis all the drought has put about twelve million people at risk across ethiopia kenya and somalia. so it's a big day for the former georgia republic of which has elected a new leader following the death of its president may well the victor saul of two other candidates to the top seed which will now occupy it for the next five years and starting as tom barton reports there are some big business to be taken care of in the little country. former vice president alexander 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 bag out on the twenty ninth of may he died suddenly

leaving power vacuum in his place you have cause you 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 recognize the independence of our cars here after a war away to the east in south ossetia 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 soviets 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 cloud can build up both of those things he'll help this young republic to stand on its own two feet again. on our last show our closer to

him and their travels across the world's largest country russia exploring its historic thousand year old traditions. and today we continue exploring russia's kirov region some one thousand kilometers from moscow the area isn't just known for its folk art and over a of museums of the earth here family comes first and local strive to help all orphaned kids find a home as art is eager overawed never courts even children with physical mental and psychological disabilities don't feel about. being a personal tragedy added difficulty do overcome being an orphan is also a social problem in russia there are thousands of thousands of orphans but in fact most of them have either 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 while the 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 the vigil part of russia can provide but then the same region that troy there saying 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. to find a new family for filthy old friends it's even harder for children like these any of them diagnosed with serious physical mental also i can logical disability. here at kira's definition number one they manage it well in russia there are currently hundred fifty thousand children who haven't been adopted. here ninety eight percent of all friends find

a new family before the six. so many orphanages exist by themselves in isolation we are reaching out to the potential parents and the authorities and working with them. first course of action is to try and place the children back with logical parents who often give them up scared off 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 through educational courses and ongoing medical support all basics in the west but hardly universal in russia yet staff say these are on the main reasons for their success and there's a crowd 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 that an orphanage is no substitute for a family a quick straw poll shows as much moved here 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 orphanages track record as anything to go by bill soon find a family. of five new families but these children are commendable only so much of an orphanage can do to solve the problem of adoption here and it cost them and not only adopted four children from orphanage number one but also sits on an adoptive parents committee yes. 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 a lot of who's fourteen says she was betrayed by her parents and those who promised the doctor and never did then she finally found a home. in the home we were 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. for the last few.

infinite years make an effort to connect with the world outside and adoption becomes more widespread in society they'll be more happy endings like this one. i'm standing here with you know like the dawn of a who's a citizen of here on the hopefully should provide us with a mobile person's 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 for your own observations is this the case is a becoming more popular yeah i think that this is the adults who have changed recently in developed countries here regionally and there are more and more parents who want to babies from children's films because either they have health problems all the wrong to come in here or bolts maybe some of them want a little payments from the government just to prove if you know there are people

from all hinges they're very prospective people and they. have a good future they have a good job center person so they did their best to achieve big names in the life what do you think of bristol 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 you know world but i can see that the situation is changing with these points too because people are quite all around to live in our region i'm on. my whole lives their point of view with the children from whole foods is thank you very much i'll be speaking to you have a lot of the lives there and here of actually talking to us about the culture. now authorities in colombia have given answer the demands of hundreds of women after they were. i mean a sub strike earlier this month they spent thirty eight days burning their

husband's advances until a mountain highway which connects the remote community to the wider world was repaved well this week laurie harford has so 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 health x. to get a road paved what is she would you withhold sex for this week let's talk about that right now the economy we need to sort of out there so. it will get better gas. that also i think he says he says to you to to still make six we were in france maybe for world peace order and hunger or something like that nothing nothing no i don't think so. the deficit. in congress.

is so if american moment that's having facts do you think it would change things here we would as solve the deficit crisis very quickly the world is going to do it was going to do and if the story were to get their man motivated i can understand it would get me on the show pretty quick is there any thing that you would withhold sacks or are you kidding no i think it's an effective tactic. it thoroughly works there you're good for them do you think it would work anywhere in the world yes i think men and women interact the same way everywhere do you think it would work if men without sacks to get something done no i mean if it works sure i think it's a little crazy but i mean hey you got to do it you got it 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.

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