that's how it's on its newly elected president faces the tough task of rebuilding the country's economy former vice president alexander on a club i thought i'd be attending without a call to violence between two miles to meet his country. international news life for most this is also here with me thanks for joining us fierce fighting is continuing in the beds rebels keep up that search from on that gadhafi nato coalition forces have launched an attack on his latest or last remaining stronghold sun to pave the way for a full scale ground offensive by the rebels there word however about his stockpile of weapons including mustard gas which they fear that condo could decide to use of his cornered and while piling up with numerous reports of atrocities on both sides of the transitional council struggles to bring stability to the devastated campus

so with fighting in tripoli and knowledge that presidents now face severe fuel and food shortages with little electricity or running water in the city for too many people thought is maria finn ocean isn't leaving and brings us this report on the humanitarian side of the conflict. was badly. hit by. the heavy bible of the khadafi regime is now in new libya nobody's seen the people nobody cared about this before. the capital tripoli is a story. 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 fees

fighting has continued since rebel forces ended tripoli during the week and much of the city baz this cause a war on top of months of relentless bombing by nato knew out of the bloodshed emerged when hundreds of bodies were found in a hospital abandoned by starfleet in the arrival of rebel forces with no one clear control many residents now live in fear of anarchy and of armed men. from both sides of the conflict. these men proudly shows as a trophy one while he took part in the overrunning of conduct his residence but as a zia when we entered we saw many weapons and. there was no good to see any more the but the man says he would love to have another prize khadafi has had. was great that way i can dump it all just like government to show this other country with their leader this is the model said and to keep a largish was some writers and other kind that's where they

can all still at large this battle is not yet over my notion of. tripoli. and christopher a bill go in the region told us that if they bend rebels fail to restore peace it 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 by committing the u.s. 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 out after the fall of gadhafi this would

reflect poorly on obama so while i don't believe that he has made it he is major goals so far there are a lot of risks for obama. you know while nato allies our already eyeing up libya's vast oil reserves countries who work together to break down his rule and are racing against each other to secure lucrative energy contracts and. reports has led to fears a new regime in libya could easily slide into cover. half a billion dollars from italy now a walk in one point five billion from the u.n. that into put three hundred million dollars from turkey is discussions a band about the future of the case here is the money that's been talking the loudest government ever strong interest in. opening up business for. everybody is

a 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 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 vast funds belong to in the states which is coming to an end the borderline between. the problem for the graphics family and the wealth of the state not very clear so of it's hard to see how much of this money was a direct emanation of gadhafi as well probably wealth and how much of it was actually. could be categorized as libyan assets 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 in the floodgates to new corruption a lot of opportunities everybody is trying to. you know it's sort of new to. me trying to exploit this war as the best of everybody police 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 nowadays indispensable for western economies western. drawing 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 sides like it or not the many western countries a place for libya i mean big business sarah ferguson the land. and

there and i like craig here in eco peace activist who was only there earlier this month says france has a right to be singing to me in the race. by nato and by god and saudi arabia are committed to a lot of crimes and they say the nato is not long enough friend a stand her under the new young so you are in this war but her as already conquered doctor with the do it for twenty eight billion dollars you tell you i was only going to work for all wrong point five billion dollars the because maybe didn't do it so much as saw or race economies are making the wars and of the greed is making it worse. moving on now the fallout from the mass riots in england has pushed prison populations there to record high but british officials still found space to jail a world war two veteran locked up for recording a court hearing he's a lawyer and finds out how the country he's fought for became the one. 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 it was because he's a recovering the corruption of the judiciary you see them frown upon a scarth is no stranger to the legal system he won a case in the european court of human rights 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 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 support of the for his case to the boil court 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 before musically charged. 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 artie london. later in the program we'll take a trip with russia close up t.v. and we travel at thousand kilometers from moscow to the city of carob and they were . ninety percent of the lupins that point of view finally before they turn and say . right now reports of the phones deaths are 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 u.s. authorities say six people including in the eleven year old boy have been killed so far by falling 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 where flooding is expected in parts of lower manhattan the city's public transport system as a service including the subway has been shut down and residents had to leave some coastal unload lying areas. 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 the history of 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 i read it's also been recommended to anyone that lives above the tenth floor to a vacuum wait from. they're 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 and it's past 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 website as the was tarkanian a generation to hate new york approaches and right now a lot of the images from north carolina. home to witness the rapidly deteriorating

weather of the american eastern seaboard including light that age from the coastal city of kill 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 with a tree capabilities that potentially destabilize the balance of power in asia over the past year china has developed a new star fighter and a craft carrier and has made a record number of space going however beijing says if the normal progression of its technology is not targeting any support enemy any supposed any measures site and explanation military at that as calling one another says the u.s. as nesting its own interests in making a fuss around china. there's a lot of hype going on right now in the united states and some of that is because they want to raise the chinese up so there are big danger that way we can keep

a large military footprint in asia but it also has to do with internal matters to push to cut the military budget the arms companies and the military assure digging in their heels and so there is trowing up this kind of chinese bugaboo aircraft carriers this missile which can sink your craft here it's not even been tested keep in mind they have one aircraft carrier which is one half the sorry of american aircraft carriers they're not going to be a millikan's have chan 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. how is the it turns out of a new political chapter with the former vice president elected as the country's new leader alexander succeeds president died in office in may the victor again nearly fifty five percent of the vote ahead of two other candidates according to the

chairman of the election commission turnout was the highest in the post something that iran and barton reports now about the challenges the new president. former vice president alexander vibe is now the president of the caucasus republic of cars here the central election commission announced that he took fifty five percent of the one hundred two votes cast and they put voter turnout at a high seventy two percent all of this was made necessary by the death of the previous president. 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

abkhazia 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 this mr and cloud can build up both of those things he'll help this young republic to stand on its own two feet again. and let's now take a look at some other stories making news around the world one of the hardest places has been killed in pakistan's tribal region along with their son according to american officials. among 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 of bin ladin who was killed in pakistan by american special

forces in may. join bin ladin in afghanistan as a teenager in the eighty's and was well known as an explosives expert. all somalis that fleeing a famine to yemen and risking death to get that cooling to the u.n. as a refugee agency almost two hundred thousand somalis are in the country some crossing the gulf of aden overcrowded all and see where their boats on a trip which many others don't survive according to the u.n. h.c.r. twelve million people from somalia kenya djibouti and at. least africa's was drought in six decades the un says there's been adequate international humanitarian response to the disaster. in don't you commotion activist on the hudson right has agreed to and his twelve day hunger strike out of the country's parliament is on to grab tomorrow it's terms of thousands of people many wearing the seventy four year olds trademark white cap has been protesting to support his call for new and to corruption and to slay should call him. a string of high profile corruption

scandals one of which might cost the government setting nine billion dollars spock's the protests a new public on to corruption watched always to be set up but it's likely to take some tight. and right now we continue to explore russia in the late close up series looking at life across the biggest country in the world. and this time around one thousand kilometers from moscow to visit the tier of region so it's a place full of community spirit where family bonds are strong so much so that ninety percent of all those in care of find a family before they turn six. has been finding out the reason for this remarkably high. 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 either parents all 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 force 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 saved her and the care of region to try her 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 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 hard enough to find a new family for healthy old friends it's even harder for children like these all of them diagnosed with serious physical mental or psychological disabilities.

but here at cairo's all finish 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 times the chela 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 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 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 and 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 know 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 as anything to go by they'll soon find a family there may care for a new families for these children are commendable but under is only so much that an orphanage can do to solve the problem of adoption that cost them and not only adopted four children from orphanage number one but also sits on an adoptive parents committee yes the bill can you be i think the problem is the social attitudes towards the youth 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 alone or 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 you could open you 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. with the last. 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 studying here with you know like at the top of a who's a citizen of here all the hopefully should provide us with a mobile fossils perspective on the option now all these officials are telling us that the situation with adoption is improving more and more children are finding new parents now from your own observations is this the case is a becoming more popular yeah i think that this if you shoot the dog food has changed recently in the coal country and even here regions and there are more and more parents and people who want to take babies from children scales it goes either they have health problems all day long to somebody that's

a parabolic maybe some of them want a little remains from the government chosen to improve this situation i know there are people who offer almost all hinges there are very prospective people and they. have a good future they have a good job since profession so they did their best to achieve their aims seem to life what do you think addressed 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 people are quite tall around and even in our region i'm on. my colleagues they acquired the children from whole foods is thank you very much i'll be speaking to you know make up with all the lives they're unclear of as

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 strike at this month they spend such a days spending their husband's advances until a mountain highway which connects their remote communities with a wider world was resurfaced this week laurie hoffman it's also known as the resident is asking people in new york called they will be willing to abstain. 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 a little something about that so. we'll get better gas law high that also i think it says he says to be to still make sex 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 going to do it was going to do and if 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 gotta 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 have a bank with a recount the top stories in just a few moments stay with.

last time the close up team was a beach where the gold rush still gets people hiked up. this time margi goes to cure old region. where the local government is giving power back to the people. where every orphan will be a dump. where locals turn their land into a tourist paradise welcome to come rejoin us should close up on our jeanne. moos today violence is once again flared up. these are the images the world has been seeing from the streets of canada. china corporations are all today.

and again this is all see the headlines. they've been bridles out ready to storm could dump his hometown under nato and showed at a desperate effort to find the fugitive says european governments stumped the other side for all dealings in the country. a british cold war two veteran has been leading a campaign to expose what he says is corruption and his country's judicial system has been a joke for six months and is being accused of making water recordings that new rings strictly forbidden in english called buttons that traditionally just trying to silence and. also carry cane irene has claimed its past lives with six dentists to be a windsor back to the coast of north carolina and virginia new york case bracing itself the world.