but you know being german her toes are very good they're a pretty traditional engine we're told. in serbia which is available in most good and where they are going to. be in brussels are ready to store and picked out his hometown under nato and showed it in a desperate effort to find the gift of hope that as european governments stand up only fight for oil deals in the country. a british world war two veteran has been leading a campaign to expose what he says its corruption his country's judicial system has been jailed for six months he's been accused of making forty recordings appearing strictly forbidden in english schools but claims the judiciary is just trying to silence him. also heart pain i read i strained its present life with things dead as severe winds battle big posts of north carolina and virginia new york is bracing itself for what's feared will be the worst storm in a generation with thousands ordered to leave their homes out of the city his public

transport and somewhat shut down. and the republican party appears that posts on its muni elected president of faces a tough task of rebuilding the country's economy former vice president alexander on a club going to a five year term without a call to the white basin to libels to meet his country's. international news life for most go this is also here with me thanks for joining us this is continuing in libya's rebels that search for moammar gadhafi nato coalition forces of launchpad talkin his latest or last remaining stronghold sun to pave the way for a full scale ground offensive by the rebels their word however about gadhafi is stockpile of weapons including mustard gas the avocado. decided to use of his

cornered and while daughters are piling up with mirrors reports of atrocities on both sides of the transitional council struggles to bring stability to the diocese of capital where fighting in tripoli and largely of our presence now face severe fuel and food shortages with little electricity or running water system for too many people are if an ocean is a leader and brings us this report on the humanitarian side of the conflict. was the. the hell the bible of the khadafi regime is not heretical book in new libya the feeling the people nobody cares about this really argue. the capital tripoli is either phoria the of people may not know for sure what the future will bring but they know that the past will never return. everything that might remind people of all decades of dictatorship has been

overthrown he says only for dirty things no only for things he's fighting has continued since rebel forces and the 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 stuff in the arrival of rebel forces with no one clear and troll many residents now live in fear of anarchy and of armed men from both sides of the conflict. the placement proudly shows as a trophy one while he took part in the overrunning of conduct his residence bubble is asea when we entered we saw many weapons and. there's no gadhafi anymore the at the man says he would love to have another prize it off he's had the.

it was most me. just like getting to shoulder some of the issue with their leader because the model said i'm just sheeple it was just what he was saying the greatest and i cry and that's. still at large this battle is not yet over. tripoli keep the uncursed a little girl in the region told r.t. that if the need and rebels fail to restore peace of could be very embarrassing for one of their main supporters because as president clearly there will still be coffee loyalists after the country's going to 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 by creating the us this far into the conflict in libya and this is becoming president obama's war we should be making cannot afford to lose. likewise if libya is to fall into chaos

into an insurgency of some sort. of could be this would reflect poorly on obama so while i don't believe he has made it is major goals or clarke there are a lot of risks for obama. and while nato allies our great eyeing our leaders vast oil reserves countries who work together to break down his rule are now racing against each other to secure lucrative energy contracts and there's also the south reports that's led to theism new regime the leader 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 that's discussions are bound together future of the case here is the money it's been talking the loudest governments have a strong interest in. opening up business for.

everybody is reason for these foreign minister has denied there's a race on with france to be the first on the ground to restart business in libya but italians have me clear their eagerness to maintain the extremely close trade ties they enjoyed and they get back the regime that is the money begins to flow to help the national transitional council and it takes power but the question mark a mainstay for exactly who these fast funds belong in the states which is coming to an end the borderline between wealth the problem for the good of his family and the wealth of the state were not very clear so it's hard to see how much of this money was a direct in the nation of a good path as well of wealth 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 they are freezing of libyan assets without effective monitoring key to aid in the floodgates to new corruption. everybody's trying to. you know to sort of. be trying to exploit this war as best everybody lucrative oil gas and infrastructure projects to follow as the water one country rebuilds every. well it seems once a slice of the action in a war nowadays indispensable for western economies western leave. for europe to destroy every group it's like a vicious circle not just italy that have been trying to keep the national transitional council on like it or not but many western countries

a place for libya will mean big business so first. and craig here in eco peace activist who was a leader earlier this month says france is a ready beating italy in the race for the. door and go check out and so you need. me to do a lot of crimes and you need is not going being enough round but a stand under the new young so you are in this war but her as already cannot go with the. four who are twenty eight billion dollars eagle years only gauntlet for a one point five billion dollars because maybe didn't do so much as saw economy making the war so greed is making. pulling out now the fall out from the mass riots in england has pushed prison populations that have record high

british officials still found space to trail a world war two veteran looks hopeful recording a quarter hearing lor and finds out how the country he fought for became the one who. british prisons are full to bursting the courts are working overtime sending young people to jail for their role in the recent riots in england if they're sent to leeds prison they'll be languishing alongside eighty five year old norman scar he 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 it scott is no

stranger to the legal system he won a case in the european court of human rights planning secret hearings yet still some cases in england all heard behind closed doors and recording and taking photographs is corbett and unlike in other e.u. countries scott attends demonstrations where he shouts about corruption in the police and judiciary saying lawyers police and the courts are in cahoots and regularly persecution 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 free will expression of his 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 gag an elderly gentleman who may not always be right but he has a large. luckily for scott he has friends with knowledge of the law and they're acting for him you know but par for the course of the for his case here to the boil

court of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to heaven meanwhile plainfield being denied it then chilled 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 experiencing royal every game every fall which is what exactly. norman scarth is about 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 r.t. london. later in the program we take a trip with russian close ups. and we travel at thousand kilometers for most of the city of heroes and they were vacaville story of ninety eight percent of the lupins

that point in the valley before that since they. now reports of the first coming from north carolina and virginia as hurricane irene launches coastal cities in the two states with one hundred eighty five kilometer per hour winds us of course it's a six people including eleven year old boy killed so far in trees and enormous gusts this storm has toppled palm lines and almost one million people are now without electricity irene is heading for new york with thousands of expected in parts of lower manhattan the city's public transport systems service including the subway has been shut down and residents would have to leave some coastal unload line areas. as more. 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 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 there 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 week from. they're building we spent the whole day packing everything up so we're ready we hope it just goes right by and as of course anybody any damage to us because here we have some food back doing some. little bit of extra things just

because 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 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. and we're closely following developments in the u.s.

on our web site and as the words hurricane and generation new york approaches and right now you know what the images from north carolina are now going to r.t. dot com to witness the rapidly deteriorating weather around the american eastern seaboard including a line that is from the coastal city of gold devil hills the state of north carolina. the pentagon's issued a report warning that china is on track to becoming an easing military power by twenty twenty but beijing has called the documents distorted it claims the country is expanding military capabilities to potentially destabilize the balance of power in asia over the past year china has developed a new star fighter and i craft carrier has made a record number of space however big dreams as is the normal progression of its technology and is no time saying anything that any any supposed to say and an explanation military affairs call and one another says the glass is nursing its own interest in making a fuss around china. there's

a lot of hype going on right now in the united states and some of their views because they want to raise the chinese up so the regain sure that we can keep a large military footprint in asia but it also has to do with internal damage to there's a push to cut the military budget the arms companies and you know it curious or digging in their heels and shoulders trowing up this kind of chinese pilot who aircraft carriers this missile which can secure a craft here it's not even tested keep in mind they have one aircraft carrier which is one half the charges of american aircraft carriers in the millikan's have and nimitz class aircraft carrier so even if they build one or two or even three more impressed areas they're nowhere near the level they would need to challenge the united states. i've heard the it turns out their new political chaps have the former vice president elected as the country's new leader alexander exceeds

president died in office in may the victory again nearly fifty five percent of the head of candidates according to the chairman of the election commission turnout was the highest in the. town reports now about the challenges the president. former vice president alexander is now the president of the caucasus republic of abkhazia 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. 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 our cars year after a war away to the east in south ossetia and fears that the georgia may attack abkhazia as well but 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. and let's not take a look at some other stories making news around the world one of the hardest hit places has been killed in pakistan's tribal region or was their son according to american officials to a man it was reported this second on the list of america's five most wanted

militants in the region it was believed to be a close confidante her grandson had been lost and was killed in pakistan by american special forces and may. join the nodded in afghanistan as a teenager in the eighty's and was well known as an explosives expert. all somalis that fleeing ofan into yemen and are risking death to get that according to the u.s. refugee agency almost two hundred thousand somalis are in the country at some crossing the gulf of aden and overcrowded all and see whether boats on a trip which many others don't survive according to you are in the h.c.r. twelve million people from somalia kenya djibouti and. east africa's was tried in six decades in the months that is less than adequate international humanitarian response to the disaster. in japan and to commotion oxidized under huzzaing as a breakdown he's filed a hunger strike out of the out of the country's parliament but he is and she grabbed him on its terms are thousands of people really wearing the seventy four

year old's trademark whites kirk has been protesting to support his call for new and to corruption and slavery calling him a new record high daunting a string of high profile corruption scandals one of which may cost the government such a nine billion dollars stocks the cross has a new public on to corruption watchdog has to be set up but it's likely to take some type. of break now we continue to explore russia and the latest now close up series looking at life across the biggest country in the world. and this time around one thousand claims it's from moscow to visit the clearer region so it's a place full of community spirit where family bonds are strong so much so that ninety and percent of all those in care of the family before they turn six. has been finding out the reason for this remarkably high. up are true 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 caught in fact most of them have either parents or relatives outside of the orphanage but these people simply do not want to look after them or color be trusted to do so so this is something that needs to be solved on a social level while the general social problems that force these children to be taken away or how can they be tackled so it's not necessarily something that either an individual orphanage or lived a vigil part of russia can provide but then the same problem in the care of region but try to say ok we're being dealt with all these awful to receive all these people but at least all we can do is find all them a new home and that's what they're trying to do as you can see more appalled. in russia it's hard enough to find a new family for healthy olson's it's even harder for children like these all of

them diagnosed with serious physical and mental also can logical disabilities. here at kira'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 in four to six times the chiller so many orphanages exist by themselves in isolation where reaching out to their potential parents and the authorities and working with them there. first course of action is to try and place the children back with her biological parents who often give them up scared off by the diagnoses but 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 are on the main reasons for their success. there 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. but i 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 often ages track record is anything to go by bills soon find a family. here the five new families but these children are commendable but under is only so much of 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 yesterday to build a new i think the problem is the social attitudes towards the children it's not a case of money where an average family all of this to the point is really there you just have to love the children themselves. i learned his fourteen says she was

betrayed by her parents and those who promised and did then she finally found a secure group in the home you're always just a part of the group but here in the family you're needed by someone there is not tenderness more love and happy. so often it does make an effort to connect with the world outside and adoption becomes more widespread and society will be more happy endings like this one. i'm standing here with you know look at the call over who's a citizen of the hopefully should provide us with the normal person's perspective on. 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 dots on his chest leave him to calm down see you hear region and there are more and more.

rooms and people who want to see babies from children's films because either they have health problems all the wrong to come here bowl or maybe some of them want a little three months from the government just to rule this city i know there are people who are from all hinges they're very respected people and they. have a good future they have a good job search profession so they did their best to achieve big names in their life but do you think there is still some discrimination they think when people say this person is an orphan you know if it changes their opinion about this person i think it happens in the world but i can see that visitation is changing with these points too because the people are quite all around to live in our region among. my colleagues they acquired the children from all foodies thank you very

much i'll be speaking to the thought of a few lives there and that you've been talking to us about the culture. authorities in colombia have given in to the demands of hundreds of women after they went on a sex trying to smuggle they spent thirty eight days spending their husband's advances and a mountain highway which connects their remote community to the wider world was resurfaced this week nouri hoffman is also known as the resident is asking people in new york they will be willing to abstain for. in the strike of crossed legs colombian women with held back 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 do something about that so. that we'll get better gas. but also i think he says he's too stupid 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 has that is so if american women that's having sex do you think it would change things here we would as solve the deficit crisis very quickly going to do it what was going to do and if that's the only way 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 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. today to whack with a recount i'll tell stories in just a few moments with. last

time the close of team was a phenomenal beach where the gold rush still gets people hiked up. this time far she goes to your own region. where the local government is giving power back to the people. where every orphan will be adopted. her looks almost turned their land into a curse paradise come to fruition should close up on our jeanne. moos today violence is once again flared up. these are the end.