very warm welcome to this is r.c. live from moscow the libyan rebels are closing in on one of colonel gadhafi has few remaining strongholds warning his loyalists to surrender or time's running out for good out these troops to lay down arms in his home city with a rebel set deadline ending it next weekend get out be used whereabouts is still unknown has released a number of messages promising along this week western powers agreed to unfreeze his assets at a meeting discussing libya's future in paris one the rebel leaders and seeking to restore order in the capital tripoli many people there say they still don't feel safe the conflict is in thousands of looted in these guns flood the country and fall into untrained hands as artie's with the national report. is a libyan rebel he got 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 foot was bleeding he pulled the trigger by mistake he was himself. this is a reality of today's leave. for when the rubble 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 nato bombed 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 at the scene and helped destroy the arsenal. i don't want weapons to fall into the hands of my sons or the jews i'm concerned where our country will be growing with ground rules

this is a very dangerous thing it's not a toy but with the country in a war with arms it looks like live in kids have already developed a fascination for the weapons of war. when i go out and have a real life and will kill bad guys like gadhafi then your thought is you save a gathering up 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 stone which many here are afraid that this addiction may have a painful withdrawal and 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 all be easy for many to lay down their arms when the gun has played such a prominent role throughout libya's volatile history original r.t. tripoli libya or those who russia recognize libya's national transitional council

as the country's legitimate governing authority said it never wanted to get out here to stay but had disagreed with nato as means of removing him but his envoy to the alliance told r.t. that nato disrespect towards the un and determination to take control of libya warring 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 nato is zone of responsibility but the airlines as an organisation claims not to be involved classic military propaganda need to use the un resolution as chewing 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 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 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 the beer's oil reserves. no clear vision yet of what lies ahead for libya's rebel government patrick hayes reporter for the online magazine spiked transitional council's main task is proving they're guessing the people. 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 it's our intellect it's they also need to try and win a debate with the libyan people about why they're in any way more legitimate rulers thing gadhafi the libyan people still do not have a voice yet and i think it's fundamental that as well as securing us in libya which of course of course they're trying to do it the moment they do win the debate 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 us the 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 don't want him captured because that's the one thing they can unite around. there with 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 right cable outage where he made serious accusations against u.n. peacekeepers in the ninety's balkans conflicts. auction villages dying out we look at why people are playing rural areas weaving desolate fields and fondling houses where thriving communities wants to.

russia house that condemned the latest sanctions against syria banning imports of its oil these sanctions pile more pressure on president assad's regime according to the un around two thousand two hundred people have died in syria during the government crackdown against opposition protests since march human rights groups honest international claims over eighty happen tortured to death in person but saw me including the syrian government say the media is twisting the reality is 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 were being shown have been digitally 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 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 somewhat of a very macabre macabre association especially in this particular region saddam hussein 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 still gunfire 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 you know stray shooting prompted 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 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. series image as portrayed on major networks in those quite syria. where the international community is president assad to stop the bloodshed and step down but don't say pull him out too she's a university professor and journalist and i'm on the believes the revolt in syria seems the strategic goals of many western countries. i think that the nato alliance using some regional tools like turkey. the gulf cooperation council 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 loosen 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 of course the point is to recreate this syrian regime in a way that is more favorable to the united states government the nato alliance and the royal regimes from saudi arabia tomorrow. the rest over gas prices between ukraine and russia could end up in the courts here has been trying to negotiate a discount on the price it pays for the fuel but moscow 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 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 it pays 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 of the transport gas transportation system in ukraine know 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 keefe and moscow in two thousand and nine but most school for me reply 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. self 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 is due to be completed pretty much soon this south stream by blind will also be available in the next few years so all this all the statement coming from moscow should. 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. hundreds of. taking part in the largest of a series of protests that have rocked the country for months the demonstrators that angry at the high cost of living and want the government to rebound. 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 largest at this country has ever seen now for weeks organizers have been dubbing 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 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 which people here are 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 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 fifth 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 messages at. one of the new surrogates we're hearing is where were you surprised by third 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 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 hyped up 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 deshawn baskin are on the list 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 that thirty years ago was one of the most egalitarian in the world today to the second 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 are serious social services which should provide to be provided by the government in education health and welfare are going to give the cost of living keeps going up and people earning two salaries or to 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 are sure that when you come 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 is a conflict here this government of israel today is a right wing religious supported government which supports the continuation of building settlements and there will be conflict here. now israel's will say things like the state is turkey prepares to challenge its blockade of at the international court of justice a consummated to slump in relations and current spelled israel's ambassador and seven all military ties of its refusal to apologize for the senate raid on friday the u.n. investigation published a report into the attack which killed nine attackers and. i have found that israel has used excessive force for boarding the ship but also concluded that the. but second said. and now israel's prime minister has reiterated his refusal to apologize. i want our website. never runs dry of interesting stories and videos of. also is what we've got few on live at the minnesota policeman channels

with the murder of a prominent russian journalist anna politkovskaya pleads guilty and agreed to cooperate with the investigators in revealing new details of the complicated case. also white americans a new longer 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 and story could be seen all across the north caucasus town of beslan this week as it marks the anniversary of russia's deadliest terrorist attack hundreds gathered at a school in the center of the town where group of extremists took around a thousand people hostage seven years ago but it is that we're laying flowers and lighting candles remembering over three hundred victims of the three day siege more than half of those killed in the assault were children while the ordeal began on september first and last for fifty one hours and fifteen minutes the exact time of

the mourning period that had been held annually ever since when the last day of the commemorations white balloons were released into the skies one for every victim. now in a rare move the u.n. court turned to r.t. this week for assistance in the child around came latter to former bosnian serb general accused of genocide in the ninety's balkans war but war crimes tribunals a copy of a unique interview aired by r.t. in which not it's made serious allegations against u.n. peacekeepers during the conflict on his knees and now we report 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 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 type 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 malott it 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 our costs are very surprising that this video

footage which could certainly be a very important moment and very important material in the trial was missed by the tribunals and it's eighteen years of existence the tribunal has faced harsh criticism about it being biased it's 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 inflames 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 serb generals or officials that have been tried a lot of them have been given march last year sentences and some of them have even been acquitted and again this lead is if you will missing of evidence by the

tribunals is not going to help in criticism that the hague is in fact bias. ok now for a check on some of the headlines from around the world this hour and the rounds at 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 run it. around the group that spent atomic fuel from the plant treated to russia easing western concerns that around could use the station to develop nuclear bombs. former international monetary fund chief dominique strauss kahn has returned to his native from this 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 it

christine back a french novelist. defense minister general. has died of heart failure the seventy five year old politicians on the castro in the rebel army and was an iconic and revolutionary figure for cubans he was also a vice president of the council of state keep the supreme governing body his death has drawn attention to the aging is 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 you go to the 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 but for tiana some sort or even that is not the most difficult thing to cope

with it's having no neighbors that i know that they used to be so many families living here but then some people died some left well everybody is 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 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 are just around two hundred miles away from moscow. as a hobby sygate travels around the country and explores deserted towns and villages he says he's used to seeing tumbled down barns and abandoned houses even in these areas known for centuries for their great harvests. 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 are 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 no longer attractive especially for young people who are fleeing to cities looking for a better life. 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 they're only a drop in the ocean and aren't enough to motivate the youth to work and live in rural communities 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 fall silent all together. no idea where. he got his going off or to central russia. we talked to a u.k. opposition m.p. for britain's involvement in power more. recap the week's top stories in just a team.

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if. wealthy british style it's sometimes it's crisis. in the. markets finance scandal find out what's really happening to the global economy for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines fuming comes a report on our chief. today's news in this week's top stories are all seen libya's new leaders trying to

bring calm to tripoli up to capturing the capital but the massive flood of weapons into the streets means to believe he could still be a long way off. base you knew this sanctions on syria aimed to put pressure on president assad over his crimes protesters doubts over the accuracy of media coverage coming out of the country are raising questions about used to blame for the bloodshed. ukraine it threatens to take russia to court its push for a discount on gas prices but the kremlin claims it's on solid ground in the evening battle say here complaints have no legal grounds. on hundreds of miles of the across the israel of the nation's biggest antigovernment protests the demonstrations. turn their attention from security to social justice. time's running out the need to give himself up to libya's interim government.