thanks for joining us fierce fighting is continuing in the beds rebels keep up that search for more on that gadhafi nato coalition forces have launched our tug on his last remaining stronghold sad to pave the way for a full scale ground offensive by the rebels their word however about gadhafi a stockpile of weapons including mustard gas which they fear the council could decide to use cornered meanwhile borders up piling out with numerous reports of atrocities opposite sides that while the transitional council's troubles to bring stability to that devastated capital with fighting in tripoli largely are that residents now face of the of fuel and food shortages with little electricity or running also the sixty two million people. who live there and brings us this report on the humanitarian side of the conflict. was. the holy bible of the khadafi regime is now in new libya nobody's seen nobody cared about the speed of. the capital tripoli is.

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 now only for doing things he is 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 their arrival of rebel forces with no one clear control many residents now live in fear of anarchy and of armed men from both sides of the conflict. these men proudly shows as

a trophy one while he took part in the overrunning of conduct his residence as a zia when we entered we saw many weapons and. there is no good time for you anymore the but the man says he would love to have another prize gadhafi has had. was great that we can talk to supporters of the government to show this sunday actually with their leader says god all said and to keep a largish what was said the greatest and not the kind that's where they can all still at large this battle is not yet over my notion of. tripoli. and christopher kane a little girl in the region told us see that if the knee bend rebels fail to restore peace with could be very embarrassing for one of the main supporters the us 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 policing required to prevent any sort of insurgency in the coming months obviously 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 that about the 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. meanwhile nato allies are already eyeing up libya's vast oil reserves countries who work together to break down his who are now raising against each other to secure lucrative energy contracts. reports it's led to fear is a new regime in the book 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 daffy libya is the money that's been talking the loudest government ever strong interest in. opening up business for. everybody is the reason for 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 but the italians have me clear their eagerness to maintain the extremely hayes 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. the problem well for the gadhafi 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 a while and how much of it was actually. could be categorized as libyan assets exactly 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 in the floodgates to new corruption is now a land of opportunity everybody is trying to. you know it's a sort of new move to. be trying to exploit this war as best everybody believe could have oil gas and infrastructure projects to follow as the war torn country rebuilds everyone it seems wants a slice of the action

a war is nowadays indispensable for western economies western industries. you destroy your ability to read your review it's like a vicious circle 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 i mean big business sarah ferguson the land and regehr any cold peace activist who was only there and this man says france has a right to be using it i mean the race for oil. by nato and by qatar and saudi arabia are committed to a lot of crimes and they say the nato is not long enough fran a stand her under the new young so you are seeing this war but her as already kong iraq there with the. four to twenty eight billion dollars you tell you

is only going to work for all wrong point five billion dollars though because maybe didn't do it so much as saw a race economies making the war so and to their greed is making it worse. moving on now the fall out fall from the massive riots in england has proved prison population is there to record high but british officials still find space to jail a world war two veteran looked up for recording a court hearing lor and finds out how the country he fought for became one his fighting. 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 scarth 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 he was because she isn't covering the corruption of the judiciary you see them 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 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 not just 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 who may not always be right but he has a right to be here luckily. scott he has friends with knowledge of the law and they're acting for him nobody from the poor to the poor his case to the oil courts of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to heaven meanwhile the plaintiffs being denied essential 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 jail as its troops are going on every day and every fall asleep in the musical chairs. 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. this is the program we take a trip with russia close up to. travel a thousand kilometers from moscow to see to hear about the remarkable story of ninety percent of baby orphans that point to news from many before they turn say. reports of the first deaths are coming from north carolina and the genius hurricane irene lashes coastal cities in the two storeys with one hundred eighty five kilometer per hour winds u.s. authorities say six people including an eleven year old boy have been killed so far by falling trees enormous gusts the storm has toppled power lines and more than four hundred thousand people are now without interest irene is heading for new york where flooding is expected in parts of. this is public transport service including the subway has been shut down and residents ordered to leave some coastal and low

lying areas marina point nine three storm. 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 we spent the whole day packing everything up so we're ready we hope it just goes right by and doesn't cause anybody any damage we're just getting the supplies here we have some food back home getting some. little bit of extra things just in case of us president barack obama has issued a state of emergency for new york meaning that new york will receive federal funding obama did cut his vacation short and headed back to the white house on friday he said that this is a historic storm and everyone in its path should prepare for the worst some engineers believe that the infrastructure of new york city because it is so old may not be able to withstand the powers of the wind there may be flooding in tunnels of new york city some airports may be flooded homes possibly even flooded and or

destroyed so at this point everybody is preparing for the worst bracing themselves hoping it's not going to be as bad as forecasted but if it is it is not clear what will be of new york come monday. and of course we're closely following developments in the u.s. on our website as there was tarkanian generation new york approach is right now you're watching live in inches from north carolina so no go into o.c. dot com to witness the vote to be deteriorating weather and the american eastern seaboard including footage from the coastal city of claudette are held in the state of north carolina night because that's when. the pentagon's issued every poor warning that china is on track to becoming a leading military power by twenty twenty by beijing has called the documents distorted it claims the country's expanding military capabilities could potentially destabilize the balance of power in asia of the past year china has developed

a new style fight on an aircraft carrier and has made a record number of space no inches however beijing says it's the normal progression of its technology and is not targeting any surprise that any expert on asian military affairs. says they are u.s. is not saying 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 you speak because they want to raise the chinese up so there are big danger 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 assure 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 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 at risk carriers they're nowhere near the level they would need to challenge the united states. i prize it turns out of a new political chapter where the former vice president elected as the country's new leader and alexander succeeds president said good bye who died in office and me that they gained nearly sixty five percent of the vote ahead of to other candidates and according to the chairman of the election commission the turnout was the highest in the post soviet era. and reports now about the challenges the new president faces. 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 cars here as well and that was just the end of a long struggle for independence which started after the collapse of the soviet union and left a lot of the young republics infrastructure in ruins primarily the famous ones famous soviet holiday resorts along the coast here that will need to be built up and also the agriculture and fruit growing industries also very famous here but now very weak and if mr and clark can build up both of those things he'll help this

young republic to stand on its own two feet again. news for you in brief right now one of the old guard is told phrases has been killed in pakistan's tribal region over as a stand that's according to american officials. it was reported late second on the list of america's five most wanted militants in the region it was believed to be a close confidant of the style of bin laden who was killed in pakistan by american special forces and they. joined bin laden in afghanistan as a teenager in the eighty's and was well known as an explosives expert. at least eighteen soldiers have been killed in a suicide attack in military academy twenty were hurt in the double explosion in the city of churchill almost two hundred kilometers west of the company. two bombers set off explosives as soldiers were breaking their ramadan fast while there has been islamist extremist violence for gears in the country there have been more tox recently blamed on the local all of al qaida.

activist on the desirea has agreed to end his twelve day hundreds trying to this country's parliament by demands tens of thousands of people many wearing the seventy four year olds trademark white cop have been protesting to support his call for new corruption education a new mahatma gandhi a string of high profile corruption scandals one which might cost the government such a nine billion dollars spock's the protests a new public anti-corruption watchdog has to be sought to help but it's likely to take some time. right now we continue to explore russia in the eighty's and out close up series looking at the life across the biggest country in the wild. this time where all one thousand kilometers from to visit the kirov region it's

a place full of community spirit family bonds a strong so much so that eighty not know that ninety percent of all friends and care of find a family before they turn six. it has been finding out their reasons for this are not completely hi steve. apart from being a personal tragedy and a 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 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 that'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 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 find them

a new home and that's what i tried 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 the care of all finnish 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 they are 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 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

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. that is a cut 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 work here but i don't think 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 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. 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 secure group when you're in the home you were always just a part of the group but here in the family you needed by someone there is not tenderness i'm happy. with the asking. 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. hand study here with you know like at the time over who is a citizen of 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 if you shoot the doctor who has changed recently because the country has been here. and there are more and more periods of people who want to babies from children's films because either they have the health problems all the wrong to somebody to hear a ball or maybe some of them want a little three months from the government just to rule this city and all the 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 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 this point too because the people are quite all around to live in our region and one of my colleagues they acquired the children from awful jews thank you very much i'll be speaking to the thought of a few lives here and clear off that you've been talking to us about the. authorities in colombia have given in to the demands of hundreds of women after they went on a sex strike this month they spend senshi a days spurning their husband's advances until a mountain highway which connects that remote community to the wider world was resurfaced this week laurie hoffman is 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

all right now the economy we need to do something about that so. it will get better gas. that also i think he says 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 as that is so if american women stopped having sex do you think it would change things here we would have solved the deficit crisis very quickly it was going to do it it was going to do and if the only way to get their money 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 were a cure 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. or you have to do with a recount all the top stories in just a few moments stay with.

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come again this is all see a good chunk of them had. they been rebels are ready to storm gadhafi his home town under a nature ashfield in a desperate effort to find the fugitive colonel has european governments start their own supply of oil deals in the country. because cold war two veteran has been leading a campaign to expose what he says is corruption in his country's judicial system has been jailed for six months is being accused of making recordings of hearings strictly forbidden in the points but claims that the mixer is just trying to silence. that hardpan arina has claimed it's fast lies with six dead as a veiled wins today cards of north carolina and virginia new.