today's news out of this week's top stories libya's new leaders try to bring calm to tripoli after capturing the capital but the massive lot of weapons on the streets means stability would still be a long way off. moscow slams the newest sanctions on syria while a lack of accurate media coverage coming out of the country raises questions as to who's to blame for the bloodshed. a burning controversy ukraine threatens to take russia to court over gas prices but the kremlin says it's on solid ground in the latest round of an old battle. and a night of rage in israel hundreds of thousands rally in the nation's biggest

protests demanding the authorities turn their attention from security to social justice. because i am in the russian capital he watching r t i'm marina josh welcome. the leading rebels are closing in on colonel gadhafi as the last major stronghold and held out of syria they say time is running out for the former libyan leader and his soil is to agree a peaceful surrender or the deadline set for next weekend khadafi whose whereabouts are still unknown has released a number of audio messages promising a longer real war this week western powers agreed to unfreeze his financial assets and meeting discussing libya's future in paris while new rebel leaders are seeking to restore order in the capital tripoli many people there say they still don't feel safe the conflict has seen thousands of looted and seized guns flood the country at

one train here as. well. is a levy in rebel he got a bullet in his ankle fighting against gadhafi soldiers in tripoli but with his shot coming from his own side. i didn't even notice until my friend told me that my food was bleeding he pulled the trigger by mistake he was himself. this is a reality of today's levy are full of in the rubble stray off and from the country tons of khadafi is captured weapons have fallen into the hands of nonprofessional fighters one of the biggest stores it was discovered at the top security prison in tripoli where inmates were released after nato bombed the area of the duke was the father of three young boys refuses to appear on camera to fear of revenge from gadhafi loyalists he was among the first to the scene and helped destroy the

arsenal. i don't want welcome steve all into one of my songs on the news and consume grow our country will be going with this is a very dangerous thing it's not a torn between the country it was with arms it looks like libyan kids have already developed a fascination for the weapons of war but. when i go out and have a real one and will kill bad guys like. when you're through as you say you go through gathering up weapons through mosques i hope police are back on the streets the young gunman demonstrate their readiness to. give it back to the soon as they ask a system which many here are afraid that this addiction may have a painful withdraw the guard has become one of the symbols of the libyan rebels and freedom for a new country though people want more peaceful symbols but fear that all be easy for many to lay down their arms when the guard has played such a prominent role throughout libya's volatile history redemption or r.t.

three probably libya this week russia recognized libya's national transitional council as a country's legitimate governing authority said it never want to stay but had disagreed with neighbors means of removing him russia's own voice of the alliance told r.t. that nato is disrespect towards the u.n. a determination to take control of libya was a worrying sign. it's a classic situation when separate nato countries are waging war and meddling in an internal conflict of a country far away from nato zone of responsibility but the airlines as an organisation claims not to be involved classic military propaganda need to use the un resolution as chewing gun probably on purpose to show that the alliance today's equal to the un and tomorrow maybe even more powerful it's a dangerous trend and it is turning into a world policeman and it's using the un resolutions turning to feed their interests

and not taking into account the interests of the people on the ground the rebels are united on me by their desire to get rid of gadhafi and as soon as the common enemies defeat is the opposition will inevitably face internal rifts and i'm sure that that will be the moment when some western countries will try to secure some military presence aiming to control libya's oil reserves. the violence is not yet over by the race for libya's vast energy riches between nato states is already in full swing bill van auken and activist for the u.s. socialist equality party says the shells of western intervention was far from humanitarian this has been a war from the outset that has been waged for definite material interests largely oil geo strategic placement in north africa a means of countering the revolutionary upheavals that have taken place in the abuse borders both in tunisia and egypt now what will nato do in its name and it says it's protect the civilians and leading an air war against civilians that is

trained so-called rebels who have now been implicated in massacres of civilians including sub-saharan african migrant workers so i think this is a bodes very poorly for the future of libya and i think broadly that this is a threat to people throughout north africa and indeed across the world so the united states britain france and italy to some extent i mean these powers have essentially portrayed this intervention as a humanitarian venture to protect civilian life. this is been a fraud from the very outset and hardly a new excuse for the united states i think you could go back to eighty ninety eight and say every war ever waged by the united states or us imperialism has been waged in the name of protecting civilians humanitarianism and democracy. it was in our team coming to you live from moscow here's word still i have for you and the program the international war crimes tribunal turns to our t.v. for it hobby of an interview with genocide suspect. he made serious accusations

against un peacekeepers in the ninety's balkans conflict. and the russian village is dying out we'll look at why people are fleeing rural areas leaving desolate fields and crumbling houses where thriving communities one state. russia has come down the last sanctions against syria banning imports of its oil sanctions pile more pressure on president says regime according to the un around two thousand two hundred people have died in syria during the government crackdown against opposition protests since march human rights groups and amnesty international claims over eighty have been tortured to death in prison but some including the syrian government say the media is twisting their reality is reading the reports. mass murder tearing catastrophe a country on the brink of

a revolution this is what you see every time syria pops up in the headlines but what is really happening in a country where hardly any foreign journalists are present there's even been the implication that some of the images we're being shown have been digitally manipulated and there have been reports of available online that you can watch of the footage that was taken in bahrain and said to be taken in hama and it's showing the same footage and different stations of different backgrounds taking the drugs and so there are some very strange things that are going on right now an example of such manipulation is the key supposed to refugees in the coastal city of latakia has to be in the dock it became the center of the controversy when according to various reports anywhere from several hundred for several thousand people were gathered here and most of those people were palestinian refugees who came from the palestinian refugee camp in the sunni quarter of latakia now according to the opposition forces and to some of the palestinians when it got to the stadium their ideas were taken away their cell phones were also taken away and they really

prepared for the worst because you have to realize that herding large numbers of people into stadiums carries them would all go very macabre macabre association especially in this particular region so i'm hussein has developed sort of a practice of hurting people in the stadiums and then and then committing mass executions we went to the part of the city which simple. came under fire from warplanes and navy ships and spoke to the refugees to find out what happened to the some people walking around the neighborhood yelling there will be shelling from city soon and everyone has to get out i didn't go anywhere just stayed in my house i can see the bay from my window and there was nothing in there aside from the usual patrol boats are still gone the fire did break out between the army and unknown gunmen so some five thousand palestinians left their homes fearing for their lives. we wanted to leave so that our kids wouldn't hear the gunshots we hear

in our house and when there was a break in the fighting we went to the stadium we stayed there for three days then came back on our plan and so did two thousand refugees only to realize there was no air and navy attack taking place on the city. we felt like we were lying to the heart of the syrian authorities have long been insisting rogue armed groups are behind the unrest in syria and it's them who starts shooting first you must ration it prompting bloodshed those statements are all but ignored by the media there are syria is fighting and media war and it's a losing it. the syrian government might have realized its mistake of banishing foreign journalists from the country and the media law has overturned that ban but there is no guarantee it will go a long way towards achieving serious image as portrayed on major networks in those courts he syria. the international community is urging president asad to stop the

bloodshed and step down but governor if i am a lucia who is a university professor and journalist in amman believes the revolt in syria so it's a strategic regional goals of manny western countries. i think that the nato alliance using some regional tools like band the gulf cooperation council working very hard to instigate instability in syria and this sort of instability will take a second and bent specifically they are working on agitating a civil war within syria and they want to call that evolution they can have they want to but the purpose of such a war as to bring syria down to its knees to destroy syria like they did with iraq and libya course the point is to recreate this syrian regime in a way that is more favorable to the united states government the nato alliance and

the royal regimes from sudan tomorrow arkell. the rift over gas prices between ukraine and russia and out in the courts kiev has been trying to negotiate a discount on the price of pays for the fuel pump moscow says it's ready to stand its ground and front of an international body as appears asking reports caves now desperately trying to reduce its energy to pants on its neighbor when the two thousand and nine disruption to european gas supply sparked when ukraine blocked transit a russian gas ended the continent gave a collective sigh of relief but the issue has remained a thorn in the side for key if it is pushing hard for a discount from the current market price of four hundred u.s. dollars four thousand cubic meters. we need arsenals clear if they want cheaper gas and integrate into a common economic space if they don't go out and give us

a good commercial offer like selling their gas transportation system to us we don't want any of those only discounts however it seems key of is already looking for an alternative escape route it has signed an eight hundred million dollar contract with royal dutch shell to explore its reserves of shale gas but experts warn about the danger to public health. chill gases extracted by hydro fracking that means special chemicals around into the water to break up the rock formations the components of these chemicals are kept secret by the companies in the united states who claim it's a commercial secret that water laced with chemicals ends up in drinking water some shale gas development poses serious threat to the environment and health care apart from being seen as unsafe it is also described by many as too expensive and can hardly replace natural gas. we're watching the situation and we think that locally very viable but it will remain a local gas supply it is impossible to extra gas at

a loss for long and if you look at the she'll get suppliers for right now you'll see that most of them are losing money experts say shale gas reserves in ukraine maybe the biggest to europe but it may take up to attack eight to develop them nevertheless of claims next year it wants less russian gas slashing the amount it plans to buy by more than a third and that violates the true thousand and nine deal and could see europe's energy supplies once again on shaky ground another thoughtful over gas price between fear and moscow left many warring in europe that there will be another gas war and another disruption of supplies into the european continent but the russian energy minister reassured that the events of two thousand and nine will not happen again and that there is still enough time to find a compromise solution alexy risky r.t. reporting from kiev in ukraine. hundreds of thousands of israelis have taken part

in the largest of a series of protests that have rocked the country for months the demonstrators are angry at the high cost of living and one for governments to revamp its social policies are his policy years following what appears to be the largest anti-government rally in the nation's history it is the climax of nearly two months of social protests here in israel the largest at this country has ever seen now for weeks organizers have been talking a million man march they were really hoping that a million people would turn out on the streets of israel though we're hearing figures of some three hundred and fifty thousand that's three hundred fifty thousand in ten cities where here in tel aviv is the main focal point various speakers as well as artists have been addressing the crowd the rallying call remains that of social justice with people here demanding that the netanyahu government change its focus away from issues of security to issues of social justice that people here saying that it is simply too expensive to live in israel. and yet instead of concentrating on domestic problems israeli prime minister

benjamin netanyahu has been focused on the international stage on september the twenty fifth palestinians will go to the united nations to state and it in yahoo has responded by arming sitters and trying to convince countries not to support the palestinian move instead of listening to the dysfunctional to messes. up now one of the new surrogates we're hearing is where we use the tape but that is a throwback to november the fourth ninety ninety five when a former israeli prime minister gets that everything was assassinated people say where were you then of course people here saying where are you now with people really wanting to come to the streets and make a change and make a voice is heard this is the last social protest that has been planned for some time although the vibe here is quite high to be no doubt is some disappointment that the million man march was not reached. israel is also facing a wrist on a global state turkey for paris to challenge its blockade of gaza the international

court of justice it comes amid a dramatic slump in relations and expelled israel's ambassador and severed all military ties for its refusal to apologize for last may's gaza flotilla raid a friday when investigation published their story and to be attack which killed nine turkish activists is found it is raining commandos excessive force on boarding the ship. at the blockade of gaza the survey has however pointed out that the findings are not binding and say hey that shiver along the matter is really insists it happened in self-defense dothan iraq garren founder of the israeli institute for regional foreign policy says the loss of such an important ally sturton or be severely felt. is the exactly the thing to asian ongoing negotiations of the past month between israel and turkey with american mediation it tried to avoid and unfortunately really going to bring presented an opportunity for

a man to say they should be tricky if they're actually moving forward the lanes with syria and more coordination with the u.s. . so defect that such an agreement between israel and turkey over there with the big nose of that initially not preach is quite a blow to his their region and foreign policy especially in a month in which is expecting a very difficult diplomatic development with the u.n. mission for both you and paid for now with. let's one. and a very important and muslim country a nato member an e.u. applicant if very important regional player that is now in north for usenet for quite some time. our website r t dot com never runs dr interesting stories of abuse and here's what we've got for you at the moment a former policeman charged with murder of a prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya leaves guilty and agrees to cooperate with investigators in revealing new details of the complicated case.

and also why the americans are no longer a majority in the country with the rise of a static black and asian population in a number of big cities all this and more is available at r.t. dot com. grief and sorrow could be seen all across the north caucasus town of beslan this week as a mark the anniversary of russia's deadliest terrorist attack hundreds gathered at a school in the center of a town where a group of extremists to ground a thousand people hostage seven years ago visitors were laying flowers and lighting candles remembering over three hundred thirty victims of a three day siege more than half of those killed in the soul were children the ordeal began in september the first and last a full fifty one hours and fifty minutes exact time of mourning period that has been held annually ever since it was the last day of the commemorations why balloons were released into the skies one for everything.

in a rare move the u.n. court turned to r.t. this week for assistance in the trial of rock a lot of a former bosnian serb general accused of genocide in the ninety's balkans war the war crimes tribunal asked for a copy of a unique interview aired by our team which lodged a serious allegations against un peacekeepers during the conflict and as any so now he reports the hague might have overlooked an important piece of evidence in the case. what was an archive that never before seen video footage of that interview before r t published it summit two weeks ago very serious claims there and really that's what makes it so shocking that the tribunals missed this what could be very important evidence in the trial archie of course will fully cooperate and hand over that video footage to help with the ongoing proceedings in the hague i just want to give you an idea of what exactly was said in that interview one of

the strongest statements as we see it and i'm quoting here is instead of disarming the muslim formations as they had committed themselves to doing the united nations forces turned those safe areas into terrorist and fundamentalist bases from where our villages and towns were attacked now malott it also goes on to say that he believes the un was smuggling weapons into demilitarized zone so you can see the severity of these claims and how they could possibly be very important evidence and again shocking really that the hague tried you know this this type of first off because it was filmed in one thousand nine hundred five just after december needs a massacre which is one of the atrocities that melodic shiz is being accused of why he's standing trial in the first place and second of all it was filmed by a western t.v. station is available to the bosnian archives to very surprising that this video footage which could certainly be a very important moment and very important material in the trial was missed by the

tribunals and it's eighteen years of existence the tribunal has faced harsh criticism about it being biased it's fierce his critics go on to say that it's a political show not a court of law and this is going to not weaken those claims and by this i mean of course this latest news that the tribe you know mr what could be very important evidence and part of the fact the reason i should say and what these critics base their facts song is that seventy percent of the indictments that the court has issued have all been against serbs and when you look at. who is been tried over the past almost two decades you could say when you look at it disserves side in the aisle there are none that serve generals or officials that have been tried a lot of them have been given much lesser sentences and some of them have even been acquitted and again this latest if you will missing of evidence by the tribunals is not going to help in criticism that the hague is in fact biased. and he's in our

reporting there now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world former national monitoring bunchy dominic strauss kahn has left the u.s. to return to his native france he had been held under house arrest in new york for six weeks on sex assault charges that were later dropped however the former presidential hopeful faces another allegation of indecent assault from french novelist ricin but on in pairs. all twenty one people on a chilean military plane which went off radar friday afternoon are there after several attempts to land the plane crashed in the pacific killing all aboard four identified bodies personal belongings and pieces of wreckage have been collected along the coastline of chile's remote juan fernandez islands the country's president joined a master more into victims. cuba's defense minister general julio passes relayer has died of heart failure the seventy five year old politician served under raul castro in the rebel army and was an iconic revolutionary figure

for cubans he was also vice president of the council of state he was supreme governing body is draw attention to the aging leaders still running the country. the lights of the big city and the prospect of a better life is persuading young people in russian villages to abandon their homes across the whole country but as he is going off found out the mass exodus from rural russia leaves those who stayed but the struggle to survive. no hot water or stable electricity supplies the nearest pharmacy a post office and grocery store or miles a week before thirty on a some sort or even that is not the most difficult thing to cope with it's having no leaders there you know where there used to be so many families living here but then some people died and some level well everybody's gone now even the roads you

know. it used to be a successful tiny agricultural community where everyone knew each other's names and celebrated birthdays together that young has been here all her life but no nearly all that's left of the village are her memories this used to be a collective farm back in soviet times and now it looks more like ancient ruins rather than something which actually functions not so long ago it's astonishing especially knowing that we are just around two hundred miles away from moscow. as a hobby sygate travels around the country and explores deserted towns and villages he says he's used to seeing tumbled down barns and abandoned houses even in these areas known for centuries for their great harvests and i am not i think this is fertile land you can stick a pole in the soil here and it will have peppers growing on its one side and

tomatoes on the other shore some of cultural facilities are still left in some areas but mostly the lands and abandoned. official figures show that over three thousand villages in russia became deserted last year alone many small schools and hospitals have shut down there's simply no one to educate or treat anymore life in the countryside is no longer attractive especially for young people who are. looking for a better life. it's not the village which is becoming extinct it's the youth reasons for self motivation and even to leaving their villages for big cities where they often don't know what to do there so they can find a job or a family build a life. of course there are examples of successful forming businesses in russia but experts agree they're only a drop in the ocean and aren't enough to motivate the youth to work and live in the world community and as many try to survive in cities looking for work the

countryside is dying out a little some traces of wife still exist here and there it may not be too long before they fall silent altogether. but. he got this one off our to central russia. i'll remember that for more on any of us or they're running for hears about said r t dot com and shortly we'll talk to a u.k. opposition m.p. for his views on britain's involvement in foreign wars and that's after a week out of the week's top stories in just a few minutes. nearly

a billion people in the world are going hungry. in the united states even our trash cans are full of the food you just have to go get it all of these perfectly good eggs because one was cracked didn't even get all over the other ones just drove all the way but she was from the german oh give clearly my supper. in the dumpster at one am this morning three pm this afternoon on the grill to the cake made from one dozen dumpster egg whites. delicious

breakfast for the family ate some toast for about a week every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of.