to live from moscow i'm marina josh the libyan rebels are closing in on colonel gadhafi as the last major stronghold and hometown of sirte they say time is running out for the former libyan leader and his loyalists to agree a peaceful surrender with a deadline set for next week and gadhafi is whereabouts is still unknown has released a number of audio messages promising a long guerrilla 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 the country and fall into untrained hands as artie's maria financial now reports. is a libyan rebel to go to a bullet in his ankle fighting against gadhafi soldiers in tripoli but with a shot coming from his 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 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 to boys 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 gadhafi loyalists he was among the first at the scene and helped destroy the arsenal. i don't want weapons to fall into the hands of my sons or the youngsters i'm concerned who are going to be going 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 in your thirty's you save 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 that it will be easy for many to lay down their arms when they gone has played such a prominent role throughout libya's volatile history riven osha r.t. tripoli libya this week moscow recognized libya's national transitional council as the country's legitimate governing authority in the russian foreign minister said he never want to be to stay but that he opposed nato's means of removing him saying principles of international law have been ignored. russia has never

approved of the former libyan regime back in may president medvedev clearly stated that data should go but the way the united nations resolutions were implemented by some nato members and other states meant that the principle of the supremacy of law was being disregarded the african union and u.n. initiatives were ignored leading to an increase in civilian casualties however it was the protection of the civilian population that was sent as the major objective of the security council resolutions implemented by nato. we absolutely sure that justice cannot be done using a lawful method. as libyan start to plan their post get off a future political riders bricmont says nato is only following its own interest in the country. it's obvious that you know that. i think

there'd be a conflict between the people who supported them in the future libyan government the prince of libya. they want to make sure they're not the most in the north. and they want to go. with the libyans of the whole image and. from their point of view. on the the west who should in their victory soon forget that in the friendship the permanent to me that he's owed the situation is that knowing dimensionality simply dead you can get the u.n. resolution. independent commission of the un of anything like that. to fact finding mission of anything of the salt and then you good tool you very good because addition. to or against the government of us are going to be and you don't believe. it watching r.t. coming to live from moscow and here's what still had for you in the program.

national war crimes tribunal turned c r t for a copy of an interview with genocide suspect brought to light it where he made serious accusations against you and peacekeepers in the dieties balkans conflict. and to fish shells in washington have squandered sixty billion dollars in iraq and afghanistan a sound of reports as the money was lost waste and fraud. russia haskin down the latest sanctions against syria banning imports of its oil the sanctions piled more pressure on president bashar asad 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 group 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 everything has more. mask. tarion 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 enabled 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 the same footage and on different stations with different backgrounds digitally dragoon 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 somewhat of a 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 which supposedly came under fire from warplanes and navy ships and spoke to the refugees to find out what happened we've argued with some 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 still the fire did break out between the army and unknown gunmen so some five thousand palestinians left their homes fearing for their lives. he 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. 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 rolled armed groups are behind the unrest in syria and it's them who starts shooting first to destruction it's prompting bloodshed those statements are all but ignored by the media. and syria is fighting a media war and it's losing it. the syrian government might have realised 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 . syria. the international community is urging president bashar asad to

stop the bloodshed and step down but dr abraham who is a university professor and journalist in amman believes the revolt in syria suits the strategic regional goals of mannie 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 is to bring syria down to its knees to destroy syria like they did with. libya of course the point is to recreate the scene and. soon and regime in the way

that is more favorable to the united states government the nato alliance and the royal regimes from. tomorrow called. their rift over gas prices between ukraine and russia could and up in the courts kiev has been trying to negotiate a discount on the price of pace for the fuel but moscow says it's ready to stand its ground in front of any international body. reports from the ukrainian capital we understand that a very harsh words are coming from both sides and right now we understand that the ukrainian president viktor yanukovych is saying that his country is being humiliated in the course of negotiations over the gas price and by the guy at gas price itself that also says that ukraine might take this whole negotiation process into international court in stockholm to resolve the case to try to have the two thousand and nine gas deals revised moskos position is that it is ready to take it

to accept any legal action because it is completely confident that justice is on its side and it's ready to fight on in court should this happen now the essence of this dispute this time is that ukraine has been very much unhappy with the price it is paying for the russian gas and the right now it plays up to four hundred u.s. dollars which is a market price for one thousand cubic meters of gas and it wants a lower price once a discount at the same time mosco says that any commercial offer would justify the discount something like should that be there or merger of the ukrainian gas monopolist nafta gas with the russian gas giant gazprom or approaches by mosco all of the transport the gas transportation system in ukraine now ukraine tried to find a very interesting way to have the context revised by liquidating the gas monopoly enough to gas the one which was signing the contract between keven mosco in two thousand and nine but most school firmly replied to that saying that even if the company will be. dated then all the contracts will automatically pass on to its

successor so even if not the guy seizes to exist then it would mean that the contracts will have to be revised will certainly this send shock waves across europe many have been awarded whether there would be another gas war another disruption of supplies in g.d.p. and continent but the russian energy minister said that something like what happened in two thousand and nine will not happen this time that there is still enough time to find a proper compromise solution besides the situation itself is pretty much different from the events of two thousand and nine russia is no longer so strongly dependent on the transportation gas transportation system in ukraine to deliver its gas supplies to europe the north stream by blind is due to be completed pretty much soon the south stream by blind will also be available in the next few years so all this all the statement coming from moscow should reconsider the european consumers that the gas war of two thousand i will not repeat again even if there will be

serious gas conflict and possible suspension of supplies to ukraine coming in the next several months or maybe starting next year and i want to hear from. hundreds of thousands of israelis have taken part in the largest of a series of protests that have rocked the country for months demonstrators are angry at the high cost of living and want the government to revamp its social policies are his policy or is following what appears to be the largest anti-government rally and the nation's history. it was the climax of nearly two months of social protests here in israel the launches that this country has ever seen now for weeks organizers 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 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 for. you and yet instead of concentrating on domestic problems israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been focused on the international stage on september the twenty eighth palestinians will go to the united nations to declare a 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 disc on tilt messes at. night one of the new surrogates we are hearing is where we use a pain but food that is a throwback to november the fourth nine hundred ninety five when the former israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin was assassinated people say where were you then so of course people here are 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 policy reporting there israel is also facing a rift on a global stage as 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 over its refusal to apologize for a last may's gaza flotilla rate on friday the u.n. investigation pup. i wish to report it to the attack which killed nine turkish activists on that israeli commandos who used excessive force when boarding the ship but also concluded the blockade of gaza. cherokee has however pointed out that the findings are not binding and it's the haven that should rule on the matter by dr r. only l. the former head of the israeli diplomatic mission to ankara says israel has to make peace with the palestinians before turkey becomes a friend again. and is lost its closest friend in the

region in the last two decades we choose a strong diplomatic political blow also a strategic blow because the army's used to train together i think in addition on top of the damage to the by little religions we have to see if there will be a spillover to egypt and jordan i think this is the moment that. if the question is about these were only politicians the only thing they can do in the near future is improving their relations with the palestinians sitting again and trying to reach an agreement i think the issue of the israeli palestinian relations will be the critical issue also regarding their relations with turkey i don't think the truly something could be done i don't think it's too late to apologize so i think

by letter and leave very little good to be done things have to move regionally. our website our t. dot com never runs drive interesting stories and videos here's what we've got for you at the moment. former policeman charged with murder of a prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya pleads guilty and agrees to cooperate with investigators and revealing new details of a complicated case. also why americans are. no longer a majority of the country with a rise in the hispanic black and asian population in a number of big cities all this and much more 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 who 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 assault were children the ordeal began on september the first and lasted for fifty one hours and fifteen minutes the exact time of the mourning period has been held annually ever since well the last day of the commemorations why balloons were released into the skies one for every victim. in a rare move the un court turned to r.t. this week for assistance in the trial 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 r t in which large make serious allegations against un peacekeepers during the conflict as an isa now 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 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 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 archives to very surprising that this video footage which could certainly be a very important moments and very important material in the trial dismissed 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 missed what could be very important evidence and part of the fact the reason i should say and what because 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 been 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 by 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 now reporting there were international inspectors have given dad rate in greece two weeks to implement structural economic reforms that says budget watchdog released an internal report saying the country's debt is now out of control and it could lose all benefits of a second e.u. bailout financial analyst james midway says the greek economy is effectively going down the drain. the cat is out of the bag and to be quite honest the statement is quite close to a simple statement of the facts greece cannot applause to believe repay its debt under current circumstances the growth isn't there the debt is far too big and that simply no earthly way is going to be repaying this on any plausible time scale

certainly not by twenty twelve which was the original kind of hope of the other european nations the divisions that are in place right the way across europe now with countries completely unable really to agree on any kind of way forward out of this mess other than the essentially tried and tested and tried and failed methods they say which essentially is give a bit of a bailout to certain countries then impose austerity measures we've got to bear in mind that this bailout isn't really about helping the greek economy and certainly not the people who've suffered under austerity now for eighteen months of the most dreadful kind huge cuts in public spending in services in people's wages rising unemployment and no real prospects for the future that's what the bailouts really were always about trying to support the european financial system rather than supporting say the greek economy we certainly i think at the early stages of disintegration the euro deep rooted structural problems inside the euro system the imbalances that built up for the last ten years so i'd be surprised to see the euro

continuing in its present form given the situation we're in at the moment. fellas take a look at some other stories from around the world former international monetary fund chief dominic strauss kahn has returned to his native france and it's the first time he has gone back after being detained in the u.s. for several weeks on sexual assault charges though the former presidential hopeful was acquitted in new york and now faces another allegation of indecent assault from tristen but on a french novelist. all twenty one people on a chilean military plane which went off raider 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. islands the country's president joined a mass to mourn the victims. cuba's defense minister general julio castro has died of heart failure the seventy five year old

politician served. in the rebel army and was an iconic and revolutionary figure for cubans he was also vice president of the council of state cuba's supreme governing body his death has drawn attention to the aging leaders still running the country. the u.s. has lost around sixty billion dollars in waste and fraud in iraq and afghanistan over the past decade the u.s. senate commission into war time contracting has estimated and this week's report claims of mine was lost through poor planning a lack of oversight and outright scams by u.s. contractors and federal employees the panel also suggested implementing stricter measures to control spending to prevent even more money being wasted in the future michael o'brien a former official who also worked in iraq as a contract there says this fight the reports the pentagon will continue to waste money because of its strategy for fighting wars. the authors of the report say that

the ratio is practically one to one contractor to soldier which is absolutely there's no doubt in my mind that it's at least that and it says that america can't fight its wars without contractors anymore so much reliance has been placed on them by the department of defense and it's it's not just money that's being wasted one dollar one dollar in six. to me was wasted squandered lost more could be wasted because things have been built that won't be able to me they won't they can't maintain them in countries like iraq and afghanistan you have to when you build something like a power plant you have to be able to maintain and operate it and the afghanis simply don't have the ability to do that so corruption we've created a corruption. i'll be back where they had lines and in just a few moments so stay with us for more.

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to. nearly a billion people in the world for knowing humphreys 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 through all the way up and cheese from the german helps you clearly in my cup of coffee. from the dumpster at one am this morning three pm. this afternoon on the grill the cake is made from and one dozen dumpster egg whites.

delicious breakfast for the family eggs and toast for about a week every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of food. wealthy british soil it's time to. find out what's really happening to the global economy cars report. back to watching r t live from moscow here's a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest news stories levy is

a new leaders try to bring calm to tripoli after capturing the capital but the massive flood of weapons onto the streets means stability could still be a long way off. moscow slams a new a sanctions on syria aimed to put pressure on president bush on a lawsuit over his crackdown on protesters doubts over the accuracy of media coverage coming out of the country are raising questions about who's to blame for the bloodshed. ukraine threatens to take russia to court in its push for a discount on gas prices but the kremlin claims it's on solid ground and a looming battle saying complaints have no legal ground. and hundreds of thousands rally across israel in the nation's biggest anti-government protests the demonstrators demand the authorities turn their attention from security to social justice. more news at the top of the hour and now you can watch part two of our special report about los angeles dumpster divers who.