face of the tough task of rebuilding the country's economy former vice president alexander found one a five year term without the votes between two rivals to meet his. new so russia and iran the world this is all she was me thanks for joining us fierce fighting is continuing in libya as rebels keep up the search for a moment gadhafi nato coalition forces have launched an attack on his last remaining stronghold suds to pave the way for full scale ground offensive by the rebels there word however about gadhafi a stockpile of weapons including mustard gas which they fear the colonel could decide to use if his cornered and while bodies are piling up with numerous reports of atrocities of sides while the transitional council struggles to bring stability to the devastated capital and with fighting in tripoli largely residents now face

sivia fuel and food shortages with little electricity or running water and the city of two million people. as i leave that brings us this report on the humanitarian side of the conflict. there. the heavy bible of the khadafi regime is now in new libya nobody. nobody cared about this. the capital tripoli. people may not know for sure what the future will bring but they know that the past will never return and. everything that might remind people of all decades of dictatorship is be overthrown this is only for doing things only for doing things please for the team has can t. . since rebel forces and to tripoli during the week and much of the city bears the

scars of war on top of months of relentless bombing by nato you have advance 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 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 doubled 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 breaking down this is just like government to show this is something that you with a leader is the model said and to keep a largish what was that right is ok and not the kind that's the

kind of still at large this battle is not yet over there is no snow. tripoli. christopher blog on the region told r.t. that he had to leave and rebels failed to restore peace it could be very embarrassing for one of their 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 that about the this would require chorley on obama so while i don't believe that he has made it is

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 a doubt his rule one hour racing against each other to secure lucrative energy contracts and. reports has led to fears a new regime in libya could easily slide into corruption. half a billion dollars from italy now a walk in one point five billion from the u.n. all that until three hundred million dollars from turkey is discussions of bound about the future of the pace get daffy libya 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 that 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 fast funds belong to in the states which is coming to an end the borderline between wealth the problem will probably get off his 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 gadhafi as well of 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 and everybody is trying. you know it's a sort of new look to. be trying to exploit this war as best everybody leaks of 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 now what is indispensable for the western economy western industries. you destroy your appeal to destroy everything you rebuild 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 say the land. peace activist who was only there earlier this month says france has already be

singing to me in the race or. by nato and by qatar and saudi arabia they committed a lot of crimes and they say to nato is not long enough fran stand her under the new young so you are war but her as already kong to knock her out with the. four to twenty eight billion dollars you tell you is only going to work for all wrong point five billion dollars of because maybe didn't do it so much as saw a race economy making the war so and the greed is making it worse. moving on now they fallout from the mass riots in england has pursed 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 and then finds out how the country he foresaw became the one he's 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 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 that 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 or 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 sky. he has friends with knowledge of the law and they're acting for him nobody supported them for his case to the boil court of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to heaven meanwhile plainfield 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 allocative scott also says he's being denied access to a lawyer by his jail as its troops are going on every day and every poll released on the new zealand 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 and it's london. this is. the program would take a trip with russia close up to me so we travel a thousand kilometers from moscow to the city appear of the remarkable story of how ninety eight percent of baby finding the family before they turned six. reports of the first deaths coming from north carolina and the genius hurricane irene lashes coastal cities in the two states with

a hundred and eighty five kilometer per hour winds u.s. authorities say six people including eleven year old boy have been killed so far by falling trees enormous gusts these storm has toppled palm lines and almost one million people are now without electricity irene is heading to new york where it's expected in parts of lower manhattan the city's public transport service including the subway has been shut down and residents had to leave some close to unload line areas. as storm florence. 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 there build. to believe you are pushed everything up when we grew. up we knew food or water were put to us doing. this we're. doing this is the only real one that really had a major evacuation for so. you know something that we don't know now

up until this point new yorkers weren't really taking these warnings and these forecasts seriously because the last time this city experienced our hurricane a very heavy and dangerous hurricane was in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight but as we saw saturday we saw the winds picking up we saw many people rushing to the supermarkets rushing to the stores to stock up on good stock up on food stock up on water and remove any kind of furniture from their patios 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 and 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 you can watch the latest pictures from the areas hit by the hurricane at home where you can also find other stories and here it was very good lined up for you right now that. twenty six year old man has been severely injured by a shark in russia's far east just days after swimming was permitted once again in the area for the recent shark a time. and standing the test of time model that fountain is from the time of peter the grace to walk into day st petersburg driven by unique underground system to find out the secret to dot com. 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 and over the past year china has developed a new stealth fighter an aircraft carrier and has made

a record number of space no inches however beijing says as the normal progression of its technology and is not targeting any supposed enemy an expert in asia military ad says. says the u.s. as nursing its own interests in making a fuss around china. the height going on right now in the united states and some of their views because they want to raise the chinese up so they were 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 reforms companies and the military are sure 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 not even been tested keep in mind they have one of the aircraft carrier which is one half the sorry of american aircraft carriers they're not going to be militants 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. have hisor terms of a new political chapter where the former vice president elected as the country's new leader alexander succeeds president so gave the gap she died in office and then the vix again nearly fifty five percent of the vote ahead of two other candidates according to the chairman of the election commission the turnout was the highest in the post saw the. tom barton reports now about the challenges the new president faces. former vice president alexander viber 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 cloud can build up both of those things he'll help this young republic to stand on its own two feet again. more world news for you in brief

right now one of the candidates told has been killed in pakistan's tribal region of kurdistan according to american officials. and was reportedly a second on the list of america's five most wanted militants in the region he was believed to be a close confidant of asama bin laden who was killed in pakistan by american special forces and may opt to join a bin laden in afghanistan as a teenager in the eighty's and was well known as an explosives expert. will somalis are fleeing from and to yemen and are risking death to get that according to the un's refugee agency almost two hundred thousand somalis are in the country some crossing the gulf of aden one of the crowded oh unseaworthy boats on a trip which many others don't survive according to the u n h c r twelve million people from somalia kenya tribute. or triscuit east africa's was drowned at six decades he says there's been an inadequate international humanitarian response to

the disaster. for two people murdered in a casino a ton by gangsters are being buried in the mexican city of monterrey gunmen burst into the casino royale and sunday doused it with liquid and started a fire truck the people inside officials suspect organized crime was behind that time one of the deadliest since two thousand and six during an ongoing government bond to meet with drugs gangs mexican president felipe calderon has declared three days of mourning on friday for the victims of the farm. will continue to explore russia and the latest in our close up series looking at life because the biggest country in the world. this time one thousand kilometers from moscow to visit the killer afraid it's

a place full of. where family bonds are strong so much sara that ninety eight percent of all orphans and came and find a family before they turn six. has been finding out their reason for this remarkably high i think. a partial being a personal tragedy added difficulty to overcome being an orphan is also a social problem and 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 where the general social problems that cause these children to be taken away and how can they be tackled so it's not necessarily something that either an individual orphanage or the vigil part of russia can provide but then the saved her and the care of region to try to say ok we're being dealt with all these orphans we're receiving all these people but at least all we can do is find

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 olson's 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 hundred and fifty thousand children who haven't been adopted here ninety eight percent of all orphans find a new family before the six. or so many orphanages exist by themselves in isolation we are reaching out to the potential parents and the authorities and working with them in the 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 that often it shows that with the right care these children can lead normal lives that parents have to prove their attitude has changed for other. sure doctors through

educational courses and ongoing medical support all basics in the west but hardly universal in russia yet staff say bees on the main reasons for their success. 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. 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. care for a new families for these children are commendable but others only so much of an orphanage can do to solve the problem of adoption that cost them and not only adopted four children from all from the jumble one but also sits on an adoptive parents committee. 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 most of your group when you're in the home you are always just a part of the group but here in the family you're needed by someone there is not tenderness i'm happy. with alaska. 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 look at the who's a citizen of the hopefully should provide us with a mobile person's 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 doctor who has changed recently in the coal country has been here. and there are more and more parents and people who want to take babies from children's films because either they have health problems all day long to come but it's a parabolic maybe some of them want a little three months from the government just to prove to know that people who are wrong all hinges on their very perspective people. have a good future they have a good job since profession so they did their best to achieve the same zene their life what do you think of are still some discrimination i 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. because the people are quite tall around and even in our region among. my whole lives they acquired the children from all foodies thank you very much i'll be speaking to a couple of us who lives there and that she's been talking to us about the. well sources in colombia have given in to the demands of hundreds of women after they went on a sex strike there this month they spend eighty. days spurning their husbands advance until a mountain highway which connects the remote community to the wider world was resurfaced this week nor hoffmeister also known as the resident is asking people in new york well they would willing to stay. in the strike of crossed legs colombian women with help facts to get

a road paved what issue would you withhold sex for this week let's talk about that right now the economy we need. so. we'll get better gas. that also i think he says he says to be to still make six we've been friends maybe for world peace and hunger or something like that nothing nothing no i don't think so. the deficit. in congress. is so if american women stop having sex do you think it would change things here we would have solved the deficit crisis very quickly what was going to do it was going to do and if the only way to get their man 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 were. tactic the bottom line is it got the job done with no balance needed. and that's all we've go for you so far although back with the headlines in just a few moments.

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