so let's meet the elected president in the face of the tough times coverage building the country's economy former vice president alexander on the other one of finally a town without a pot the but he told. you so russia and iran the world this is all see with me thanks for joining us fierce fighting is continuing in libya as rebels keep up that search from one that gadhafi nato coalition forces have launched an attack on his last remaining stronghold sun to pave the way for a full scale ground offensive by the rebels that word how about his stockpile of weapons including mustard gas which day fear the colonel could decide to use if he's cornered meanwhile voters are piling up with numerous reports of atrocities on both sides while the transitional council struggles to bring stability to the devastated compas so far with fighting in tripoli largely over residents now say

severe fuel and food shortages with little electricity or running water in the city for two million people. live there and brings us this report on the humanitarian side of the conflict. the heavy bible of the khadafi regime is now. in new libya nobody. nobody cares about. the capital tripoli is. 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 of. peace is only for dirty things no only for doing things feels fine has can. since rebel

forces entered 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 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 double as a zia when we entered we saw many weapons and. there is no good for you anymore the but the man says he would love to have another prize gadhafi has had. was great. just like other men to show this solidarity with their leader says the bible says and to keep its. celebrators and other kinds that's.

still at large this battle is not yet over. tripoli. meanwhile nato allies are ready eyeing up libya's vast oil reserves countries who work together to break his rule one hour racing against each other to secure lucrative energy contracts and as a father of course it's led to fears a new regime in the goodies and slide into corruption. half a billion dollars from italy now a whopping one point five billion from the u.n. all that into three hundred million dollars from turkey is discussions a bound about the future of a case could definitely libya is the money that's been talking the loudest governments have a strong interest in. opening up business where. everybody is racing 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 case trade ties they enjoyed and they get back the 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 because of his 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 of wealth and how much of it was actually. could be categorized as libyan assets the gadhafi 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 kids aping the floodgates to new corruption is now a lot of opportunities and everybody is trying to. you know it's sort of. trying to exploit this war. everybody could have oil gas and infrastructure projects to follow as the war torn country rebuilds. we won it seems. the action in a war is now what is indispensable for the western economy where serving to leave. you destroy your appeal to destroy everything you reveal it's like. it's not just italy that have been trying to keep the national transitional council on like it or not the many western countries a peaceful libya will mean big business surf. the land. new york is bracing itself for what could be the worst storm to hit the city in

a generation hurricane irene has a radical severe damage in north carolina and virginia and spawned the natives in the area moving up to two million people without electricity and right now it can cross light in the arena point night in new york maria maria hello that so what's the scene like the new york how would you describe the atmosphere in the big apple right now well right now the big apple looks extremely eerie the streets are empty the businesses are are either have boarded up their windows or put cheap along their windows the tropical winds are beginning to move into new york city at this moment and you could feel the wind increasing you feel the rain increasing the rain is coming down like sheets of water and new york city has also been put under tornado watch showed up five am sunday morning in new york city michael bloomberg did have a press conference stating and urging all new yorkers to stay away from their

windows move away from their glass windows because he says the winds are going to pick up speed between now and sunday afternoon sunday evening these winds are expected to be as as as strong as eighty miles per hour if not more let's not remember new york city it's a city with extremely tall buildings so it's a it's sort of like a graph of of of of buildings that concrete really tunnels and knock anyone down he said when when everybody wakes up in the morning no matter what the condition is do not go outside because furniture glass branches could be moving all over the place con ed may be forced to shut down power in certain parts of new york city between now and suddenly evening if those areas get to flooded let's remind our viewers that on. and a new york city michael bloomberg for the first time in history issued

a mandatory evacuation of certain parts of new york city three hundred seventy thousand people live there all these evacuation zones and that those evacuations began on friday evening and continued on through saturday into sunday up until this point and those evacuation zones include five hospitals nursing homes so people literally had to go to shelters a lot of people chose to not move chose to stay in their homes but overall there is a feeling of anxiety taking over not just new york but all the surrounding states as as this hurricane hurricane irene is moving in we did get to speak with some people that work heading to the stores to buy up some flies on saturday little bit of what they have. everything out there possibly pushed everything up in the garage . got plenty of food they were prepared.

my whole life and this is the only real one they really had a major evacuation for so. you know something that we don't know the whole thing i'm scared out of like going outside in. tons of water like hurricane katrina like that hears me. the public transportation system in new york city has also been shut down that includes the trains the process is and that was in effect as of twelve pm on saturday and that is expected to be put to stay that way all throughout sunday at this this point the new york city officials are on a week and see approach they're trying to monitor everything everything warn everybody but at this point the traffic winds are moving in and everyone is just bracing themselves for the storm. that sounds extremely disturbing indeed iran has

already lost state sounds of new york what's been the damage stammering there well several lives have been lost as irene has been moving in to new york but let's let's remind our viewers it's hit lots of states before approaching new york roughly two million people living in virginia are without electricity at this point virginia according to the governor is facing serious flooding on the storm surges there are expected to be as high as eight feet off the ground and the sustained winds sustained meaning continue was blowing is up to eighty miles per hour now this tropical storm warning extends all the way up to nova scotia canada this is a very serious storm for ginia north carolina had issues have issued curfews for this hurricane and supermarkets along the east coast were orderly running out of supplies the pentagon also has

a loaded up two hundred trucks with emergency supplies and one hundred thousand national guard troops are on standby i can tell you this about two blocks away from where i live i saw. loads and loads of hummers hummers military vehicles lined up all along lexington avenue. we saw members of the army members of the air force standing outside i did a pro. some of the some of the military officials that were in uniform for the air force i asked them why why do you have so many vehicles lined up lexington avenue why are so many men and women in uniform here and they said that we've been we've been deployed here to be prepared in the event of a serious emergency in the event you have to rescue people out of homes out of buildings i could tell you that the city is prepared for the worst most new yorkers are hoping that the stories being overblown that it's being hyped up but i can't imagine that in time in this kind of time a time of economic crisis or city would go and spend so much money and the federal

government if this was not a serious storm and at this point we're waiting we're seeing it seems a little bit like a movie where you know you don't know what's going to happen but you're just prepared and that's the circumstance here in new york that's right now you know right marina for now reporting there live from new york marina thank you very much indeed. let's move on now the for not from the mass riots in england has pushed prison populations that a record high but british officials still found space to a little to that train for recording a court hearing on his lawyer emmett's finds out how the country forceful became the one who's financing things. 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 caesar covering the corruption of the judiciary you see them frown upon a scarth is no stranger to the legal system he won a case in the european court of human rights 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 having theory in this country something called freedom of expression that is people's right to speak out about what they see as wrong as long as they're telling the truth and i'm very worried this is an attempt to gag an elderly gentleman may not always be right but he has a right to be here luckily for scott he has friends with knowledge of the law and they're acting for him normally there are reports of them for his case here to the boil court of justice but they don't feel justice is being served to heaven meanwhile claim to being denied essential medication in prison. according to reports conditions in leeds prison. 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 experience in drawing on every day every day. 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 on the program we take a trip with our russia close up team. and we travel a thousand kilometers from moscow to the city of cairo and the remarkable story of ninety percent of the baby orphans that are finding a new family before they turn six. turns over a new political chapter with the former vice president elected as the country's new leader and xander succeeds president sergei bugout sure died in office in may the victory again nearly fifty five percent of the vote ahead of two other candidates according to a chairman of the election commission the turnout was the highest in the party's soviet era barton reports now of other challenges the new president faces. former

vice president alexander un viber is now the president of the caucasus republic of cars here in 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 surrogate on the twenty ninth of may he died suddenly leaving power vacuum in his place there because young 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 a 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 once 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 can build up both of those things he'll help this young republic to stand on its own two feet again. that's not check some other news stories from around the world one of the tightest top regions has been killed in pakistan's tribal region a was even stone according to american officials. was reportedly second on the list of america's five most wanted militants in the region it was believed to be a close confidant of osama bin laden who was killed in pakistan by american special forces in may. join has been large enough gotta stand as a teenager in the eighty's and was well known as an explosives expert. to more protesters have been killed by syrian security forces with activists saying there's

been sporadic shooting troops concentrated in damascus suburbs and two hundred sixty state media said the interior ministry has been citizens not to take part in protests but their own safety meanwhile iran's foreign minister has read tehran support for the assad regime but said the syrian president should also the legitimate demands of people who do want us to as the twenty two hundred have died in five months of protests. fifty two people murdered in a casino turn by gangsters have been buried in the mexican city of monterrey gunmen burst into the casino we want to take down with liquid and something to find the trump people inside officials suspect organized crime was behind that time one of the dead in that since two thousand and day during an ongoing government meeting with drug gangs mexican president felipe calderon has declared three days of mourning on friday for the victims of the fires. and right now we continue to explore russia in the latest of our close up series looking at life across the

biggest country in the world. and this time we're all one thousand kilometers from moscow to visit the care of it's a place full of community spirit where family bonds are strong so much so that ninety percent of all orphans and care find a family before they turned six. as they're finding out their reason for this remarkably high. up being a personal tragedy added difficulty to overcome being an orphan there's also a social problem in russia there are thousands of thousands of orphans but the fact most of them have parents all relatives outside of the orphanage but these people simply do not want to look after them 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 it'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 to try they're saying ok we're being dealt with all these orphans we're receiving all these people but at least all we can do is provide all of them a new home and that's what they're trying to do as you can see more appalled. in russia it's 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 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 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 the first course of action. it's 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 on the main reasons for their success and that it doesn't matter how good the facilities are here or what care the children receive we are all of the staff here still know than an orphanage is no substitute for a family a quick straw poll shows as much if you know that our young 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 them a pair of the five new families for 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 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 i learned who's fourteen says she was betrayed by her parents and those who promised to adopt her and never did then she finally found a home so your group when you are in the home you are always just a part of the group but here in the family you are needed by someone there is not 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 standing

here with you know. get the ball over who's a citizen 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 for your own observations is this the case is a becoming more popular yeah i think that this if you shoot the doctrine has changed recently in the coal country and even here regionally and there are more and more parents and people who want to take babies from children's films because either they have the health problems all the wrong to somebody that's a parabolic maybe some of them want a little three months from the government chosen to rule if you know there are people who are wrong all pages 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 leave their life but do you think they would restore 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 tall around and even in our region i'm on. my colleagues they acquired we have the children from all foodies thank you very much i'll be speaking to the daughter of a who lives here in kirov and she's been talking to us about the culture. of sources in colombia have given in to the demands of hundreds of women after they went on a sex strike and this month they spent searching eight days spending their husband's advances until a mountain highway which connects their remote community to the wider world was resurfaced this week off and it's also known as the resident disaster 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 issue would you withhold sex for this week let's talk about that right now the economy we need to do something about that so. it will get better gas . that also i think it's he says to be to still make sex we've been friends maybe for world peace or to end hunger or something like that and i'm playing nothing no i don't think so. the deficit. in congress as that 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 it was

going to do it was going to do and if the the only way to get their men motivated i can understand it or get me on the show pretty quickly is there any thing that you would withhold sex for are you kidding no i think it's an effective tactic. it certainly works there yes good for them do you think it would work anywhere in the world yes i think men and women interact the same way everywhere do you think it would work if men without socks to get something done no i mean if it weren't sure i think it's a little crazy but i mean hey you got to do what you got to do is no crazier than going to war and shooting people to get things done that is very true whether or not you agree with these women tactic the bottom line is it got the job done with no violence needed. these fernald the backlash if we count all the headlines for you shortly.

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but the. great time it was the head of. libyan rebels are ready to storm cut out his hometown under nato as show the desperate effort to find if you check out old as dirt pick up and start that fight for them till. i mean that's going to it's kind of supplies of the six dead is severe winds of the coast of north carolina virginia is bracing itself for the it will be the worst storm in a generation with thousands want to move that this is a big transport and sound like. a british cold water that has been leading the country to expose enabled this whole corruption of the gel to the six.