they say time is running out for the former libyan leader and his loyalists to agree a peaceful surrender or the deadline set for next weekend could offer his 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 at a 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 and fall into untrained hands as. reports. is a libyan rebel he got a bullet in his ankle fighting against gadhafi soldiers in tripoli but with a 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 so scared himself.

this is a reality of today's libya for when the rebels triumphant march through the country tons of khadafi is captured weapons have fallen into the hands of nonprofessional fighters one of the biggest stories of wars discovered at the top security prison in tripoli where inmates were released after nato bombed the area of the dude who's the father of three young boys refuses to appear on camera still fear of revenge from qaddafi loyalists he was among the first at the scene and helped destroy the yasser. i don't want weapons to fall into the hands of my sons or the youngsters i'm concerned with our country will be growing with goggles this is a very dangerous thing it's not a toy but with the country in war with arms it looks like libyan kids have already developed a fascination for the weapons of war but. when i go out i have a real one and will kill bad guys like gadhafi then you're thor's you savior of

gathering up weapons through mosques and well police are back on the streets the young gunman demonstrate their readiness to. give it back to them as soon as they ask a stone which many here are afraid that this addiction may have a painful withdraw the gun has become one of the symbols of the libyan rebels and freedom for a new country though people want more peaceful symbols but fear of all be easy for many to lay down their arms when they gone has played such a prominent role throughout libya's volatile history original r.t. tripoli libya. this week russia recognized libya's national transitional council as the country's legitimate governing authority moscow said it never want to gadhafi to stay but had disagreed with nato as means of removing him russia's and 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 with the airlines as an organisation claims not to be involved classic military propaganda nay to use the un resolution as chewing gum probably on purpose to show that the alliance today is equal to the un and tomorrow maybe even more powerful it's a dangerous trend nato is turning into a world policeman and it's using the un resolutions turning them to feed their interests and not taken into account the interest of the people on the ground the rebels are united on lead by the desire to get rid of gadhafi and as soon as the common enemies defeated 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 the beer's oil reserves. the violence is not yet over but the race for the b.s. vast energy riches between nato states is already in full swing bill van auken an

activist for the u.s. socialist equality party says this shows a western intervention was far from humanitarian this is 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 libya's borders both in tunisia and egypt now what will medo do in that state and it says it's protecting civilians and leading an air war against civilians its 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 more 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 day outset and hardly a new excuse for the united states i think you could go back to eight hundred ninety eight and say every war ever waged by the united states by us imperialism has been waged in the name of protecting civilians humanitarianism and democracy. it was an r.t. coming to you live from moscow and here's what still i had for you in the program the international war crimes tribunal turns to our t.v. for a copy of an interview with genocide suspect where 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 been down the last e.u. sanctions against syria banning imports of its oil sanctions pile more pressure on

president says regime according to the u.n. our 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 as 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 manipulate manipulated and there have been reports about that are available online that you can watch of footage that was taken in bahrain and said to be taken in hama and it's showing to seen footage and on different stations different backgrounds we draw again so there are some very strange things that are going on

right now an example of such manipulation is the case of palestinian refugees in the coastal city of latakia the stadium in the dark it became the center of the controversy when according to various reports anywhere from several hundred to several thousand people were gathered here 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 do some of the palestinians when they got to the stadium their i.d.'s 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 with over very macabre macabre association especially in this particular region so the uncle saying has developed sort of a practice of hurting people in stadiums and then and then committing mass executions we went to the part of the city were. supposedly came under fire from warplanes and navy ships and spoke to the refugees to find out what happened to the

. people walking around the neighborhood yelling there will be shelling from sea 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 hid 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. 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 lined 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 know stray shoots

prompting bloodshed those statements are all but ignored by the media. syria is fighting a media war and it's news in it that 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 changing series image as portrayed on major networks even those court t.v. syria. the international community is urging president asad to stop the bloodshed and step down dr abraham who is a university professor a journalist in amman believes the revolt in syria so it's the strategic regional goals of manny western countries. i think that the nato alliance using some regional tools like turkey and the gulf cooperation council are working very hard to instigate instability in syria and this sort of instability will take

a sectarian 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 of course the point is to recreate this c.n.n. group the syrian regime in the way that is more favorable to the united states government the nato alliance and the royal regimes from saudi arabia tomorrow i'll call. the rift over gas prices between ukraine and russia and up in the courts kiev has been trying to negotiate a discount on the price that pays for the fuel but moscow says it's ready to stand its ground in front of an international body as i ask you reports cave's now desperately trying to reduce its energy dependence on its neighbor when the two

thousand and nine disruption to european gas supply sparked when ukraine blocked transit of russian gas and hit the continent gave a collective sigh of relief but the issue has remained a thorn in the side for 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 ourselves clear if he wants cheaper gas can integrate we can listen to a common economic space if they don't want got can give us a good commercial offer like selling their gas transportation system to us they 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 with the border 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 but that water laced with chemicals ends up in drinking water so shale gas development poses a serious threat to the environment and health 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 it's very viable but it will remain a local gas supply it is impossible to extract gas at a loss for long and if you look at the shale gas suppliers right now you'll see that most of them are losing money experts say shale gas reserves in ukraine maybe the biggest in europe but it may take up to a decade to develop them never the last key 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 two thousand and nine deal and could see europe's

energy supplies once again on shaky ground another tussle over gas price between kiev 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 alexi russia ski 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 want the government to revamp its social policies are just fall asleep 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 launches that this country has ever seen now four weeks old and eyes have been dropping by the 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 for 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 are saying that it is simply too expensive to live in israel. today that the 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 declare a state and that in yahoo has responded by arming cities and trying to convince countries not to support the palestinian move instead of listening to the discounted messages and. not one of the news tokens we're hearing is where we use the pain but food that is a throwback to november the fourth nine hundred ninety five when the former israeli

prime minister yitzhak been ever been was assassinated people say where you've been so of course people here saying where are you now with people really wanting to come to the streets and make a change and make their voices heard this is the last social protest that is being planned for some time although the vibe here is quite hyped up they no doubt is some disappointment that the million man march was not reached. israel is also facing a wrist on a global stage chest turkey prepares to challenge its blockade of gaza the international court of justice it comes amid a dramatic slump in relations ankara expelled israel's ambassador and severed all military ties for its refusal to pa gys for last may's gaza flotilla raid a friday when investigation published a story into the attack which killed nine turkish activists a sound it is raining the commandos use excessive force when boarding the ship fluid the blockade of gaza in. turkey has however pointed out that the findings are not vining as to hey that shiver along the matter is really insist it acted in

self-defense dothan iraq garren found things really and for regional foreign policy says the loss of such an important ally sturton will be severely felt. this is exactly the situation that the ongoing negotiations of the past month between israel and turkey with american may be ation it tried to avoid and unfortunately failed basically the database being presented an opportunity for that to manage its relation to the turkey it with turkey moving for me its alliance with syria to more coordination with the us a is so defect that such an agreement between israel and turkey when there was a very close with eventually not ph is quite a blow to is there a legion of foreign policy that is especially in the mountain which is expecting a very difficult diplomatic development with the un difficult mission if it but it seems fate so now we have let's one flaming to june in

a very important and muslim country in nato member an e.u. application and if very important it is now in north four years that for quite some time. our web site r t dot com never runs drive interesting stories and views 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 pleads 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 a rise in the hispanic black and asian population in a number of big cities all this and more is available at our t.v. 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 carouse

a thousand people hostage seven years ago visitors were laying flowers and lighting candles remembering over three hundred thirty victims of the three day siege more than half of those killed in the salt were children the ordeal began on september the first and lasted for fifty one hours and fifty minutes exact time of mourning period that has been held annually ever since on the last day of the commemorations wide balloons were released into the skies one for everything to. it a rare move the un 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 lodge made 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 never before seen video footage of that interview before r.t. published it some 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 r.c. 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 u.n. 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 tribunals missed this time of first off because it was filmed in one thousand nine hundred five just after the serbian it's 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 in the bosnian archive so very surprising that this video footage which could certainly be a very important moments 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 in flames and by this i mean of course this latest news that the tribe you know missed what could be very important evidence and part of the fact the reason i should say and what could these critics base their facts on is that seventy percent of the indictments that

the court has issued have all been against serbs and when you look at. who is being tried over the past almost two decades you could say when you look at the serbs side in the other non serb generals or officials that have been tried a lot of them have been given much lesser sentences and some of them have even been upgraded and again this wave is 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 alice take a look at some other stories from around the world former international monetary fund chief dominique strauss kahn has left the u.s. to return to his native france 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 dead 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 mass to mourn the 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 and revolutionary figure for cubans he was also vice president of the council of state he was supreme governing body the staff has drawn 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 to found out the mass exodus from rural

russia leaves those who stay with a struggle to survive. no hot water or stable electricity supplies to the nearest pharmacy post office and grocery store or miles away for tiana some song or even that is not the most difficult thing to cope with it's having no neighbors that i know where they used to be so many families living here but then some people died and some of their little well everybody's gone now even the road. it used to be a successful tiny agricultural community where everyone knew each other's names and celebrated birthdays together that year and 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 saw good times and now it looks more like ancient ruins rather than something which actually functioned not so long ago it's astonishing

especially knowing that we're 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 tumble down barns and abandoned houses even in these areas known for centuries before there are great harvests tonight you're not out of here 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 agricultural 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 fleeing to cities looking for a better life when. it's not the village which is becoming extinct is the youth

reasons for self motivation people are leaving their villages for big cities but 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 there are 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 although some traces of the wife still exist here and there it may not be too long before they fall silent all together. but i think they will. know it when. he got his going off r.t.e. central russia. all right after more on any of us or they're running for here's our website 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 recap of the week's top stories in just a few minutes. nearly a billion people in the world are going from countries every day. in the united

states even our trash cans are filled with 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 threw them away and she was from the german hopes clearly like the upper crust. from the dumpster at one am this morning three pm this afternoon on the grill the cake is made from and one doesn't dumpster egg whites. and delicious breakfast for the family bake some toast for about a week every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of food.

see. you know if you live from moscow and here's a look at today's news in the week's top stories levy is new leaders try to bring

calm to tripoli after capturing the capital but the massive flood of weapons on the streets means stability could still be a long way off. moscow's slams the new ascensions on syria aimed to put pressure on president bashar al assad over his crackdown on protesters doubts over the accuracy of media coverage coming out of the country and raising are raising questions about who's to blame for the bloodshed. ukraine threatens to take russia to court it's a push for a discount on gas prices but the kremlin claims it's on solid ground in the looming battle saying complaints have no legal ground. and hundreds of thousands rally across israel in the nation's biggest anti-government protest demonstrators demand to be of the word turn their attention from security to social justice. time's running out for colonel gadhafi to give himself up to libya's interim government.