just after one am here in the russian capital and you're watching our t.v. now 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 sort 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 bodies are piling up with numerous reports of atrocities on both sides while the transitional council struggles to bring stability to the devastated capital all with fighting in tripoli are largely over residents now face severe fuel and food shortages with little electricity or running water in the city of two million people artie's but if it is in libya and she brings us this report of the humanitarian side of the conflict.

the hell the bible of the khadafi regime is now in new libya nobody's. nobody cared about this before. the capital tripoli is euphoria. 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 doing things fee's fighting has continued since rebel forces and to tripoli during the week and much of the city bans this cause 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 stuff lean 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. this man 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 is no good for you anymore. but the man says he would love to have another prize gadhafi has had. it was great . just like other men to show this is something to do with their leader this is the final step and it should be. celebrated and not the kind that's become still at large. 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 embarrassing for one of

their main supporters the u.s. president. clearly there will still be gadhafi 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 leasing required to prevent any sort of insurgency in the coming months obviously by committing the u.s. this far into the conflict in libya and this is become president obama's war and 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 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 well countries who've worked together to break off these rule are now

racing against each other to secure a lucrative energy contracts. for ports it's led to fears 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 and to pursue a hundred million dollars from turkey its discussions a bound about the future of the pace get daffy live here it's the money that's been talking the loudest governments have a strong interest in. opening up business for. everybody is the reason for its lead foreign minister has 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 made 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 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 were not very clear so of it's hard to see how much of this money was a direct emanation of the darkest wealth of wealth and how much of it was actually . could be categorized as libyan assets because as the family were often accused 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 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 we can everybody lucrative oil gas and infrastructure projects to follow as the war torn country rebuilds everyone it seems. once a slice of the action in a war is now what is indispensable for the western economy worse or industries to leave. 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 the many western countries a peaceful libya will mean big business there for. marinello career journey to a peace activist who was in libya earlier this month says that france is already beating italy in its race for oil deals. by nato and by god and saudi arabia committed a lot of crimes and nato is not long enough fran

a stand under the new young you are in this war but as already kong iraq there with the. four to twenty eight billion dollars you tell you i was only going to work for a long point five billion dollars but because maybe didn't do it so much as saw a race economy making the wars and the greed making wars. all coming up in the program or in the eye of the storm new york is bracing itself for the arrival of europe think irene as parts of the city are evacuated at a public transport has been shut down. now a british man who challenged the judiciary system in the u.k. to work spose corruption within courts is losing his battle moment scarth an outspoken world war two veteran has lost an appeal against a six month jail sentence for recording

a court hearing without permission was 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 their role in the recent riots in england when 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 except that it was a very harsh sentence and. i believe it was because she isn't covering 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 to the 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 you know but the porter the for his case to the boil court

of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to heaven meanwhile claim to 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 still drawing on every day every fall this long easy for travelers. 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 emmett's r.t. london. major cities along the eastern seaboard of the us including new york are bracing themselves for the wrath of her. i remain 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 saying it remains extremely dangerous and president obama has warned it could be historic artie's marina port ny 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 a 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 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. it stands the powers of the wind that 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. now the pentagon has issued a report warning that china is on track to becoming a leading 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 it's not targeting any suppose of enemy and expert on asian military affairs says the u.s. is nursing its own interests and making a fuss around china. going on right now in the united states and and some of they

do speak because they want to raise the chinese up so there are a 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 the military assured 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. of american aircraft carriers american and millikan's have an nimitz class aircraft carrier so even if they build 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 a suspected al qaeda operations chief has been killed in pakistan's tribal region

of was there a stunt that's according to u.s. officials. who was one of the 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 a summer bin laden was killed in pakistan by american special forces in may i would all romana joined the bin ladin in afghanistan as a teenager in the eighty's and was well known as an explosives expert. to algeria now or 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 as 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 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 are now 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 a historic. yemen is experiencing a sharp rise in the number of famine hit somali refugees flooding into the contrary thousands are choosing to cross the gulf of aden overcrowded boats instead of seeking shelter in neighboring countries can now be the largest host country and also suffering from famine has already received nearly half a million somalis. well the drought has put about twelve million people at risk across ethiopia kenya 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 may well the victor sauf two other candidates to the top seat which allow occupy for the next five years and its origins tom barton reports there are some big business to be taken care of in the little country. former vice president alexander 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 presidents which on the twenty ninth of may he died suddenly leaving power vacuum in his place there because 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 recognized the independence of abkhazia after a war away to the east in south the city and fears that the georgia may attack cause here as well 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. on our last show our close of team in their travels across the world's largest country russia exploring its historic regions a thousand year old tradition. 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 a ray of museums and theaters here family comes first and local strive to help all orphaned kids find a home and his art is eager overawed never ports even children with physical mental and psychological disabilities don't feel about. being a personal tragedy added difficulty to overcome being an orphan there's also a social problem in russia there are thousands of thousands of orphans but the fact most of them have 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 caused 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 save the care of region by trying they're 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 it's full of them have to find a new family for filthy old friends it's even harder for children like these have been diagnosed with serious physical mental all psychological disabilities. but here at the care of a finnish number one they manage it well in russia there are currently hundred and fifty thousand children who haven't been adopted. here ninety eight percent of all orphans find a new family before their six. so 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 the orphanage 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 on the main reasons for their success and that it doesn't matter how good the facilities are here or what care the children receive we are all of the staff here still know than an orphanage is no substitute for a family a quick straw poll shows as much work here. there are three of us here me and my two sisters we really want to be adopted by the same family but not everyone wants three kids to orphanages track record is anything to go by they'll soon find

a family there for the five 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 it cost them and not only adopted four children from orphanage number one but also sits on an adoptive parents committee yes 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 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 home so your group when you are in the home you are always just a part of the group but here in the family you are needed by someone there is more tenderness more love. i'm happy to stick with alaska. so often it does make an effort to connect with the world outside an adoption becomes more widespread in society be more happy endings like this one. pound study here

with you know make up at all over who's a citizen of the hopefully should provide us with the normal 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 if you should we adults who have changed recently in the coal country mean here. and there are more and more parents who want to take babies from children's films because either they have health problems all the wrong to somebody to parabolic maybe some of them want a little playmates from the government chosen to rule this city and all their people who are wrong all hinges their very perspective people and they.

have a good future they have a good job since profession so they did their best to achieve their aims seen life what do you think there is 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 these points too because the people are quite all around to live in our region i'm on. my whole lives they acquired the children from whole foods is a thank you very much i'll be speaking to the dawn of a few lives here in clear of what you've been talking to us about the. now authorities in colombia have given in to the demands of hundreds of women after they were. on a sex strike earlier this month they spent thirty eight days spawning their husband's advances until a mountain highway which connects the remote community to the wider world was repaved well this week laurie harshness 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 is she would you withhold sex for this week let's talk about that right now the economy we need. so. it will get better gas. that also i think it's he says to be to still make six we've been friends maybe for world peace order and hunger or something like that nothing nothing no i don't think so. the deficit. in congress has that is so if american women stopped 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 this the only way to get their men motivated i can understand it or get me on the show pretty quickly 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 it got the job done with no violence needed. all that's all for now i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments.

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welcome back here's a recap of the main stories we're covering on our t.v. libyan rebels are ready to storm gadhafi his hometown under a nato airfield in a desperate effort to find the fugitive colonel all that says european governments start their own fight for oil deals in the country. or world war two veteran who's leading a campaign to expose corruption and british courts is losing his battle well that's after his appeal against a six month sentence was dismissed he was jailed for making all the recordings at hearings but claims the courts are simply trying to gag. in the eye of the storm new york city braces itself for the fast approaching hurricane irene.