today's news in this week's top stories live use new leaders chimes of bring calm to try to counter in the capital of the massive flood of weapons on the streets me to believe he could still be a long way on. the e.u. 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. of that in controversy ukraine threatens to take russia to cause insisting on lower gas prices but the kremlin says there's almost all of ground in the latest round of it all but. says it wants to discount on the russian gas but more school says it has no legal grounds to alter the contract the

boy says details joining us from kiev in just several minutes. and the knights of rage in israel hundreds the thousands rally in the nation's biggest protests demanding the author already has turned their attention from security to say she'll just. a warm welcome to you this is a line from moscow the libyan rebels are closing in on one of colonel goods out these few remaining strongholds warning his loyalists to surrender or time's running out because now he's cheap to lay down arms in his home city of with the rebels set a deadline ending it next weekend get out be his whereabouts is still unknown has released a number of messages promising a long war this week right. and powers agreed to unfreeze his assets at

a meeting discussing libya's future in paris one the rebel leaders are seeking to restore order in the capital tripoli many people there say they still don't feel safe but complex and seeing that i wasn't as of looted in the seas guns flood the country and paul an untrained hand of the vanities with the national report. is a libyan rebel he got a bullet in his ankle fighting against gadhafi soldiers in tsushima tripoli but with a shot coming from his side. i didn't even notice until my friend told me that my foot was bleeding he pulled the trigger by mistreat. himself. this is a reality off today's leave. for when the rebels stray off and march through the country tons of gadhafi is captured weapons have fallen into the hands of nonprofessional fighters one of the biggest stories was discovered at the top

security prison in southern tripoli where inmates were released after a major bomb the area of the dude was the father of three young boys refuses to appear on camera still fear of revenge from gadhafi loyalists he was among the first to seen and help destroy the arsenal. they don't want work most of all in the hands of the songs on the youngsters and soon grow our country will be growing with ground rules this is a very dangerous thing it's not a torn between the country it was with arms it looks like livin kids have already developed a fascination for the weapons of war. when i go out on her real life and will kill the bad guys like. in your thoughts you say you go through gathering up weapons through mosques and while police are back on the streets the young gunman demonstrate their religion is to. give back to them as soon as they ask a system which many here are afraid of this addiction may have

a painful withdrawal 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 the guard has played such a prominent role throughout libya's volatile history river ocean or r.t. tripoli libya. or those who rushed to recognize libya's national transitional council as the country's legitimate governing authority said it never wanted kidnap me to stay but had disagreed with nato as means of removing him or his envoys to the alliance told r.t. that nato disrespect towards the un and determination to take control of libya worrying signs. it's a classic situation when separate nato countries are waging war and meddling in an internal conflict of a country far away from nature a zone of responsibility but the airlines as an organisation claims not to be

involved classic military propaganda nay to use the un resolution as chewing gun 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 un resolutions turning them to feed their interests and not taking into account the interests of the people on the ground the rebels are united on me by the desire to get rid of gaddafi and as soon as the common enemy is 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 libya's oil reserves. there's no clear vision yet of what lies ahead for live rebel patrick a supporter for the online magazine spiked said the transitional council's main task is proving they're guessing as to the. with the transitional government this

being put in place what you have here is a government that's been cherry picked by the west these are people that's aren't elected they also need to try and win a debate with the libyan people about why they're in any way more legitimate rulers and gadhafi the libyan people still do not have a voice yet and i think it's fundamental as well as securing u.s. libya which of course of course they're trying to do in moments they do with but i mean also fundamentally in terms of securing the country i think it's the absence of that you see from the transitional government the absence of any real sense of what they're going to do next other than just implements the kind of blueprints that the west seems happy with this is going to cause real problems here in some ways actually rather than securing a third country i think it's actually in the interests of the transitional government and probably noto as well for gadhafi to remain at large and they want him captured because that's the one thing they can unite around. here with r.t. here's what's still ahead for you in the program the international war crimes tribunals turns to r.t.

for a copy of an interview with genocide suspect paper that is where he made serious accusations against un peacekeepers in the ninety's it was called legs. action villages dying out we look at why people are fleeing rural areas needing desolate fields of funding howells's where thriving communities wants to. russia has condemned the latest versions against syria banning imports so it's all we'll these sanctions pile more pressure on president assad's regime according to the u.n. around two thousand two hundred people have died in syria during the government crackdown against opposition protests since march human rights groups analysed international claims over eighty. to death process but saw me including the syrian government say the media's trust in reality is only good 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 footage that was taken in bahrain 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 key supposed to be refugees in the coastal city of latakia the city i'm in my pocketbook in 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 the talking. now according to the opposition forces and to some of the palestinians when they 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 with all but very macabre macabre association especially in this particular region saddam hussein has developed sort of a practice of hurting people in the stadiums and then i don't and meeting mass executions we went to the part of the city which supposedly came under fire from warplanes a navy ship in support for 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 still got a 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 read 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 we 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 lying to. syrian authorities have long been insisting armed groups are behind the unrest in syria and it's them who started shooting first during the most racially prompting bloodshed those statements are all but ignored by the media. syria is fighting in media war and it's losing it. the syrian government might have realized its mistake of banishing foreign journalists from the country and new media law has overturned the ban but there is no guarantee it will go a long way to. t.v. series image and were treated on major networks even those quite syria. where the

international community is at the top of bloodshed and stepped down but don't hate him i do she's a university professor and journalist and i'm on the believe the revolt in syria since the strategic goals of many western countries. i think that the nato alliance using some regional tools like turkey. 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 everybody lucian 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 iraq and libya will force 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 saudi arabia tomorrow. the rift over a gas prices between ukraine and russia could end up in the courts here has been trying to negotiate a discount on the price to pay for the fuel but he says it's ready to stand its ground in front of any international body. the reports from the ukrainian capital. we understand that a very harsh words are coming from both sides and right now we understand that the ukraine president because the other which is saying that his country is being humiliated in the course of negotiations over the gas price and by the 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 board should this happen now the essence of this dispute this time is that ukraine has been very much unhappy with the price it's paying for the russian gas and 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 it be there or merger of the ukrainian government office natural gas with the russian gas giant gazprom or purchase by mosco of the transported gas transportation system in ukraine know ukraine try to find a very interesting way to have the context revised by liquidating the gas monopoly nothing as the one which was signing the contract between key from moscow in two thousand and nine but must go for me to reply to that saying that even if the

company will be liquidated then all the contracts will ultimately be passed on to his successor so even if nothing gets 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 worried 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 city. 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 pipeline is due to be completed pretty much soon this south stream pipeline 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 conflict and possible suspension of supplies to ukraine coming in the next several months or maybe starting next year. 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 rebound social policies . following what appears to be the largest rally in the nation's history. it is the climax of nearly two months of social protests here in israel the launchers of this country has ever seen now for weeks organizers have been touting the million man march they were really hoping that a million people would turn out on the streets of israel though we were hearing figures of some three hundred and fifty thousand that's three hundred fifty thousand in ten cities way 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 changes 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. 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 dequeue 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 dysfunctional messes and. now one of the new surrogacy hearings is where we use the ten best food there is a throwback to november the fourth ninety ninety five when the former israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin 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 their voices heard this is the last social protest that is being

planned for some time although the vibe here is quite high top be no doubt is some disappointment that the million man march was not reached. well there are currently over one hundred israeli settlements in the west bank in east jerusalem there sean baskin an analyst of the israel palestinian conflict says israel should be spending the billions for construction and social programs inside the country. the social concerns are extremely valid the gaps between rich and poor in israel are grown from a society to thirty years ago was one of the most the goalie tarion in the world today to the seconds of gaps between rich and poor only after the united states we have a problem of increasing privatization a philosophy that our prime minister adheres to and what we've seen privatized in israel over the past years or serious social services which should provide it be provided by the government in education whole thing will fear going to give the cost of living keeps going up and people earning two salaries or two family

household with the cost of education health and welfare cannot make it to the end of the month we've heard a lot of voices in israel when asking the protestors and those who are leading them we should have money time to pay for all these social services and to close the gaps. that come up quite often is one take money away from the very high military budget and the other is to transfer money which is going from the settlements in the occupied territories to building inside of israel proper so there's a conflict here this government of israel today is a right wing religious supported government which supports the continuation of building settlements and there would be conflict here. now it's all say facing arrest i've been able stages turkey to challenge its blockade of. the international court of justice a consummated traffic slump in relations ankara expelled israel's ambassador and seven all military ties over its refusal to. senate raids on friday of a u.n. investigation published

a report into the attack which killed nine it's. found that israel used excessive force when boarding the ship but also making clear to the k. to. protect he said. within the last hour and now israel's prime minister has reiterated his refusal to. i want our websites r.t. dot com that never runs dry of interesting stories and videos. course is what we've got you on live out the many years of almost all these channels with the murder of a prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya guilty and agreed to cooperate with the investigators in revealing new details of the complicated case. also white americans are no longer a majority in the country with a rise in the hispanic black and asian population in the number of big cities all this and much more. grief i'm sorry could be seeing all across the north caucasus town of beslan this week as it marks the anniversary

of russia's deadliest terrorist attack hundred school in the sense of the time stream it took around a thousand people hostage seven years ago but it is that we're laying flowers and lighting candles remembering over three hundred person victims of the three day siege more than half of those killed in the assault were children of the ordeal began on september first of last fifty one hours and fifteen minutes the exact time of the mourning period that had been held annually ever sense on the last day of the commemorations white balloons were released to the skies one with every that time. now in a rare un court turned to see this week for assistance in the child around came about it's a former bosnian serb general accused of genocide in the nineteenth balkans war the war crimes tribunals copy of a unique interview i r t in which not it's made serious allegations against u.n.

peacekeepers during the conflict on his knees and 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 for our t.v. 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 terrorists and fundamentalists 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 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 in the bosnian archives and 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 its eighteen years of existence to try to you know 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 mr 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 service side and learn all there are no 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 i was. for a check on some other headlines from around the world this hour and around first nuclear power plant has been connected to the country's electricity grid it's thought to be a technical test before it officially starts operating in mid september but if it is it was built by russia which also helps to manage. around agree that spent atomic fuel from the plant treated to russia easing western concerns that around

could use the station to develop nuclear arms. from international monetary fund chief dominique strauss kahn has returned to his native france it's the first time he's gone back to being detained in the u.s. for several weeks on sexual assault charges the former presidential hopeful was acquitted in new york he now faces another allegation of indecent assault from. a french novelist. he is to fence minister general judea. has died of heart failure and seventy five year old politicians under castro in the rebel army and was unlike comic and revolutionary figure for cubans it was also the vice president of the council of state keep a supreme governing body his death has drawn attention to the age is still running the country. the lights of the big c c bet and life is persuading young

people in russian villages to abandon their homes across the whole country but as you go to a mass exodus from rural russia these days you stay with us struggle to survive. no hot water or stable electricity supplies the nearest pharmacy post office and grocery store or miles away for thirteen or some sort or even that is not the most difficult thing to cope with it's having no leaders that. they used to be so many families living here but then some people died some left everybody is gone now even the roads. it used to be a successful tiny i recall troll community were everyone knew each other's names and celebrated birthdays together that year and has been here all her life with no nearly all that's left of the village our home 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 were just around two hundred miles away from moscow. as a hobby sygate travels around the country and explores deserted thousands and villages he says he's used to seeing tumble down the barns and abandoned houses even in these areas known for centuries for their great harvests. 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 sure some of the cultural facilities are still left in some areas but mostly the lambs empty 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 nor 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's 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 in live in the real community and as many try to survive in cities looking for work the countryside is dying out although some traces of life still exist here and there it may not be too long before they force silent altogether. yet. he got his gun off or to central russia.

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