watching r.t. coming to live from moscow today we'll take a look at the top stories of the week as well as the latest news stories the libyan rebels are closing in on a wad of colonel gadhafi has few remaining strongholds warning his loyalists to surrender time is running out for gadhafi strobes to lay down arms in his home city of sarat or the rebels said deadline ending next weekend at afi his 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 of thousands of looted seized guns flood the country and fall into untrained hands as artie's marie of financial 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 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 was 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 arsenal. 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 through as you say the gathering of weapons through mosques and while police are back on the streets the young gunman demonstrate their readiness to. give it back to them as soon as they ask a system 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 the guard has played such a prominent role throughout libya's volatile history ridden ocean or 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 copy to

stay but had disagreed was neo's means of removing him russia's and voice of the alliance told r.t. that nato's disrespect towards the un and a terminations to take control of libya were worrying signs. i do. 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 is zone of responsibility but the airlines as an organisation claims not to be involved classic military propaganda would need 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 the world's policeman and it's using the un resolutions for turning them to feed their interests and not taken into account the interest of the people on the ground the rebels are united only by the 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 the a.b.'s vast energy riches between nato states is already in full sway belvin alcan an activist for the us socialist equality party says this shows the western intervention was far from him any tarion. this is been a war from the outset that has been waged for definite material interest largely oil geo strategic placement in north africa a means of countering the revolutionary upheavals that taken place on libya's borders both in tunisia and egypt now what will nato do in its day and it says it's protecting civilians yet has been 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 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 it's 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. you're watching r t coming to live from moscow and here's what's still ahead for you in the program a national war crimes tribunal turns to our team for a potty of an interview with genocide suspect rock a lot of where he made serious accusations against u.n. peacekeepers in the ninety's balkans conflict. and the russian village is dying out with a look at why people are fleeing rural areas leaving desolate fields and crumbling

houses were thriving communities one student. russia has condemned the latest e.u. sanctions against syria banning imports of its oil the sanctions pile more pressure on president assad's regime according to the where around two thousand two hundred people have died in syria during the government crackdown against opposition for protest 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 as read english go now 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 the same footage and on different stations with different backgrounds digitally drugged and 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 dock 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 to 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 would alba very macabre macabre association especially in this particular region so the ankle state 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. 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 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. 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 armed groups are behind the unrest in syria and it's them who starts shooting first during demonstrations prompting bloodshed those statements are all but ignored by the media. syria is fighting a media war and it's 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 changing series image as portrayed on major networks in those court t.v. syria. the international community is urging president to stop the bloodshed and step down but political scientist dr not harshly says she doesn't believe it will resign and even if he does it will only bring more serious problems president assad will never step down that's one thing let's not forget him that's remind all the west and all the surrounding arab countries that's going against him right now he

will never step down this is a dream that will never come true sic therion violence for sure if that's if that will happen which you will never do we're going to see a turmoil not only in syria we're going to see and all the surrounding countries lebanon jordan sooty all the gulf areas everything it's going to turn upside down so again i'm saying this is playing with fire so they have to think twice about what's going to happen but the thing is they're not thinking right see the worst this is not their first mistake this is their they're the the hundreds mistake that they've been doing so far what they did in libya russia will never ever allow to happen in syria. the rift over a gas prices between ukraine and russia could end 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 arches lecture shifty 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 gas price itself and 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 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. 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 of vi's 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 liquidated then all the contracts will automatically pass on to its successor so even if not the gas seizes to exist then it would mean that the contracts will have to be revised will certainly this sense shock waves across europe many have been worried whether they would be another gas were another disruption of supplies into the reaping 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 city. way shown 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 and 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 pouring their 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 just 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 dropping by the million man march they were really hoping that a million people were turned 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 the people here saying that it is simply too expensive to live in israel for. 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 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 discounted messes at home. now one of the new surrogates we're hearing is where were you surprised by the food that is a throwback to november the fourth one thousand nine hundred five when the former israeli prime minister yitzhak bane ever been was assassinated people say where were you then 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 there no doubt is some disappointment that the million man march was not reached. israel is also facing arrest on a global stage as turkey prepares to challenge its blockade of gaza and the international court of justice it comes amid a dramatic slump in relations anchor us expelled israel's ambassador and severed

all military ties over its refusal to apologize for last may's gaza for tillery a friday the u.n. investigation published a report into the attack which killed nine turkish activists if our israeli commandos used excessive force one boarding the ship but also concluded the blockade of gaza is legal turkey has however pointed out that the findings are not binding and in the hague that should rule on the matter is growing cysts it acted in self defense doctrine the rug or and founder of the israeli institute for regional foreign policy says a loss of such an important ally as turkey will be severely felt. this is exactly the situation that the ongoing negotiations of the past month between israel and turkey with american mediation it tried to avoid unfortunately basically the database being presented an opportunity for that to manage its relations with turkey with turkey moving forward the alliance with syria to more coordination with

the us a defect that such an agreement between israel and turkey when there was a very close the benchley not ph is quite a blow to is there a legion of foreign policy especially in the mountains which is always expecting a very difficult diplomatic development with the un because of it but it's stayed so now we have let's one flaming to resume in a very important and muslim country in nato member an e.u. applicant if very important. in last four years that for quite some time. you're watching on to live from moscow and remember that our web site r t dot com never rounds dry of interesting stories and videos and here's what we've got for you today 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. also why 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 much more at or t. dot com. grief and sorrow could be seen all across the north caucasus town of beslan this week as a marks the anniversary of russia's deadliest terrorist attack hundreds gathered at a school in the center of 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 the three day siege more than half of those killed in the assault were children the ordeal began its terror the first and last at four fifty one hours and fifteen minutes the exact time of the mourning period that has been held annually ever since on the last day of the commemorations why balloons were released into the skies one for every victim. in a rare move the un cord turn to our team 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 r t in which a lot of made serious allegations against un peacekeepers during the conflict and as any so now he reports behaved 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

terrorists and fundamentalists bases 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 moment and very important material in the trial was missed by the tribunals and its eighteen years of existence the tribunal has faced harsh criticism about it being biased its fiercest 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 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 now reporting there now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world former international monetary fund chief dominic strauss kahn has returned to his native friends it's the first time he's gone back after being tainted in the u.s.

for several weeks on sexual assault charges though the former presidential hopeful was acquitted in new york he now faces another allegation of indecent assault from treason but on a french novelist. 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 for and on these islands the country's president joined a mass to mourn the victims. of the fans minister general julio casas where all has died of heart failure the seventy five year old politician served under custer in the rebel army and was an iconic and revolutionary figure for cubans he was also vice president of the council of state few the supreme governing body his death 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 all 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 sort or even that is not the most difficult thing to cope with it's having no neighbors that. they used to be so many families living here but then some people died some left a hole while everybody's gone now even the roads. it used to be a successful tiny agricultural community were everyone knew each other's names and celebrated birthdays together that year and has been here all her life but now 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 tumbled down barns and abandoned houses even in these areas known for centuries for their great harvests and i am 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 it is the youths 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 real community and as many try to survive in cities looking for work because the side is dying out although some traces of life still exist here and there it may not be too long before they fall silent altogether. but

they will. know where. he got his going off r.t.e. central russia. well a quick recap of our main stories in just a few moments coming your way stay with us.

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after capturing the capital but the massive flood of weapons onto the streets means to build it could still be a long way off. moscow slams new sanctions on syria aims to put pressure on president bush on a loss of a working crackdown on protesters but doubts over the accuracy of media coverage coming out of the country are raising questions about who is to blame for the bloodshed. ukraine threatens to take russia co-ordinates 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 protest demonstrators demand the authorities turn their attention from security to social justice. time's running out for colonel gadhafi to give himself up to me as interim government now recognized as.