a very warm welcome to this is our to live from moscow now libyan rebels are closing in on one of colonel gadhafi his few remaining strongholds warning his loyalists to surrender time's running out for gadhafi his troops to lay down in his home city of status with a rebel set deadline ending next weekend gadhafi his whereabouts is still unknown has released a number of border messages promising a long war this week western powers agreed to unfreeze the financial assets at a meeting of discussing libya's future in paris on new rebel leaders are 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 and seized the girl's blood the country and fall into untrained hands as our 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 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 rubble stray off and 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 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 and revenge from khadafi 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 own songs 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 and have a real one and will kill bad guys like gadhafi then you're thor's 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 system which many here are afraid that 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 that all be easy for many to lay down their arms when the guard has played such a prominent role throughout libya's volatile history original r.t. tripoli libya now this week moscow recognized libya's national transitional council of the country's legitimate governing authority the russian foreign minister said

he never wanted to get out to stay but that he opposed nato as means of removing him saying principles of international law but in north. russia has never approved of the former libyan regime back in may president medvedev clearly stated that gadhafi 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 un initiatives were ignored leading to an increase in civilian casualties however it was the protection of the civilian population that was set as the major objective of the security council resolutions implemented by nato. we absolutely sure that justice cannot be done using a lawful method. now that the race for libya has evolved oil reserves the way they have full sway antiwar activists crestline and says the international meeting in

paris to discuss their peers have any intention. we're in a situation now where the old regime appears to be over in libya and any aspiring new regime should be spending its time listening to the desires of the ordinary people in libya not listening to the lectures which i reckon they're going to be hearing from the world's great powers it strikes me that this is like something out of the nineteenth century where the big imperialist colonial powers are dictating to. what is basically a leadership they themselves have selected about exactly who's going to get what france is going to get thirty five percent of the oil no doubt britain will be putting in a big claim for another for. other countries will be following suit outrageously to the meeting is being chaired by the two main protagonists the british prime minister and the french. leader what is going on we were told this was

a war that was being fought for humanitarian reasons it's in fact turned into what is basically a nato take over the country as far as i can see. you know with our t. here's what's still ahead for you in the program the international war crimes tribunals to see for a copy of an interview with genocide suspect rather came luggage where he made serious accusations against un peacekeepers in the nineteenth complex. and officials in washington have squandered sixty billion dollars that iraq and afghanistan as senate report says the money was lost in waste and force. russia has condemned the latest e.u. sanctions against syria banning imports of it's all we'll the sanctions pile more pressure on president assad's regime according to the u.n. around two thousand people one hundred two thousand two hundred people have died in

syria during the government a crackdown against opposition protests since march human rights group amnesty international came to. have been tortured to death in prison but some including the syrian government say the media is twisting the reality of very negative 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 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. yeah 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 somewhat of a very macabre macabre association especially in this particular region so the ankle satan 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 start 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 but there is no guarantee it will go a long way. we're changing series image as portrayed on major networks in those syria. or the rift over gas prices between ukraine or russia could end up in the courts gives been trying to negotiate a discount on the price it pays for the fuel but moscow says it's ready to stand its ground zero in front of any international body that is yes yes he 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 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 are merging of the ukrainian gas monopolist nafta gas with the russian. or approaches by mosco all of the transport 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 keefe and moscow 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 send shock waves across europe many have been awarded whether there would be another gas war another disruption of supplies into either be incontinent 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 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 now hundreds of thousands of israelis have taken part in the largest of the theories of. the demonstrators are angry at the high cost of living and government. policies. following what appears to be the largest. in the nation's history. it was 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 are 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 the people here 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 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 and. not 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 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 hyped up they no doubt is some disappointment that the million man march was not reached where there are currently over one hundred israeli settlements in the west bank and east jerusalem . baskin and i listed the israel palestinian conflict as israel should be spending the billions for reconstruction 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 and again the cost of living keeps going up and people earning two salaries of 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 should 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'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 will be conflict here. now israel is all say facing a rift on a global stage as turkey the challenges blockade of gaza at the international court of justice it comes amid a dramatic slump in relations anchor expelled. and seven minutes three times

a vote he's also apologized for last may's and. on friday the u.n. investigation published a report into the attack which killed. it found that israeli commandos used excessive force when boarding the ship but also making clear defecated. it's actually said only to the hague. and now israel's prime minister has reiterated his refusal to apologize so that the former head of the israeli diplomatic mission to ankara says israel. have to make peace with the palestinians before turkey becomes a friend to. israel and is lost its closest friend in the region in the last two decades which is a strong diplomatic political blow also a strategic blow because the army is used to train together i think in addition on top of the damage to the bilateral relations we have to see if there will be

a spillover to egypt and jordan i think this is a moment that with equal issues if the question is about these welly 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 literally something could be done now i don't think it's too late to apologize so i think by letter leave very little could be done things have to move regionally. our website r.t. dot com that never runs drive interesting stories and videos here's what we've got out. of palmer really charged with the matter of the russian journalist anna politkovskaya guilty and agreed to cooperate with the investigating revealing new

details of the complicated case. a white americans are no longer a majority in the country with the right in the head founded by an aging population in a number of big cities all this and much more at home. grief and sorrow could be seen all across the north caucasus town a plan this week that marked the anniversary of russia's deadliest terrorist attack hundred kaput. at a school in the center of the tom were a group of extremists took around 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 with children but the ordeal began on september first and last for fifty one hours and fifteen minutes the exact time of the mourning period that has been held and nearly a sense on the last day of the commemorations white balloons were released into the

skies one everything. in a rare move the u.n. to turn to our t.v. this week for assistance in the trial came luggage of former bosnian serb general accused of genocide in the ninety's balkans war the war crimes tribunal for a copy of a unique interview. in which moderates made serious allegations against u.n. peacekeepers during the cold fates and as any said now we report the hague might have overlooked an important piece of evidence in the case. what was an archive that never before seen video footage of that interview for 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 there 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 stuff 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 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 tribunals 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 service side in that other non serve 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 late is if you will missing of evidence by the tribunals is not going to help in criticism that the hague is in fact biased. international

inspectors have given the debts written greece two weeks to implement structural economic reforms that was a budget which talk released an internal report saying the country's debt is now out of control and it would use all benefits of the second bailout financial and they said james at medway 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 repay its debt under under current circumstances the growth isn't there the debt is far too big and it's simply no earthly way it's going to be repaying this on any plausible time scale certainly not by twenty twelve which was the original kind of hope that the 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 troi been tested and tried and failed methods. which

essentially is give a bit of a bailout to certain countries 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 and 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 in the early stages of disintegration of the euro the 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 they have taken some headlines from around the world this hour now and around nuclear power plant in bush there i think connected to the country and tricycle read it thought to be a technical term before it officially start operating in mid september if you think

if he was built by rust which helps to run it. around we spent atomic fuel from the plant will be repatriated at. that around the station to develop nuclear. former international monetary fund chief dominique has returned to his native france it's the first time. going back to being detained to give us the several weeks and sexual assault charges there the former presidential hopeful was acquitted in new york he now faces another allegation of indecent assault from christine found on a french novelist. cubit defense minister general as you. know hugo a has died of heart failure seventy five year old politician served under. the army chief and was an iconic and revolutionary think i think you that he will think vice president of the council of states you can supremes golf and importing his death as

well attentive to the aging elite is still running the country. the us has lost around sixteen billion dollars in waste and fraud in iraq and afghanistan over the past decade the us said it's a commission into wartime contracting has estimated the week's report claims the money was lost three poor planning a lack of oversight and our wives can't find u.s. contractors and federal employees the panel also suggested implementing a stricter measures to control things bending to prevent even more money being wasted in the future michael o'brien a former official who also worked in iraq at the contractor says despite the report the pentagon will continue to waste money because of its strategy of fighting boards up the authors of the report say that the ratio was practically one to one contractor to soldier which is absolutely there's no doubt in my mind that it's at least. 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. us to me was wasted squandered lost more could be wasted because things have been built that will be able to me they will 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 an operate in the afghanis simply don't have the ability to do that so corruption we've created a corruption. shaunie i look at the g.i. movement to stop the vietnam war but first i'll recap the week's top stories in just a few minutes. the

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streets means debate is he could still be a long way off. moscow's slams these newest 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. ukraine threatens there's a rush to court insisting on lower gas prices but the kremlin says it's on solid ground in the latest round of an old talk. and hundreds of thousands rally across israel in the nation's biggest protests demanding the turn their attention from security to social justice. looks at how an antiwar movement that emerged during the one nine hundred sixty s. changed the course of history the second part of that special report next month old tour de. mello black soldier you know if you had a debbie had a special he or she you could even go to the pool you could even turn.