this is a very warm welcome if you just joined us un's most powerful body should demand an end to the violence in syria move all parties into dialogue that's russia's view line by the foreign minister during a meeting with his brazilian counterpart on sunday. we strongly believe it's unacceptable to instigate the syrian opposition to continue boycotting suggestions to start a dialogue this is a call for it pete of the libyan scenario the brics nations will not allow this to happen the u.n. security council will not tolerate how its resolutions are being implemented. russia has sharply criticized the latest essentials against syria calling them harmful and ineffective in solving the crisis europe's imposing an oil embargo and wander further steps to force president assad and the five month crackdown on protesters u.n. claims more than two thousand people have died since the anti-government demonstrations began in march but some including the syrian government say the reports about the conflict are far from reality. i was among the few international

journalists there and this is what she found. mass murder humanitarian 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 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 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 over very macabre macabre association especially in this particular region so the ankle state has developed sort of a practice of hurting people in the 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 there aside from the usual patrol boats still the fire did break out between the army and unknown gunmen so some five

thousand palestinians left their homes fearing for their lives. 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 lying to. the syrian authorities have long been insisting rogue 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 a new media law has overturned that ban but there is no guarantee it will go

a long way towards achieving serious image as portrayed on major networks even those carty syria. across in libya the new interim leaders say they're sure that one of colonel gadhafi sons who commanded a late military brigade was killed in the past week come as gadhafi is reportedly being buried in bani walid near tripoli it's one of the last remaining strongholds of gadhafi supporters and is surrounded by rebels the loyalists had until next saturday to surrender the rebels say negotiations a failed and are about to begin a final assault or it is more of an ocean of reports now from the libyan capital. is the name for the tried populate in this area one of the biggest li bin tribes and staunch in the devotion to the embattled colonel it's played a prominent role during the current uprising he libya since the beginning of the events here in february people from these tried benny walid have been fighting against the rebels all across libya volunteers from this area have been dying for

khadafy in misrata things braga and in other cities they've been all the time ardently supporting the colonel who's provided them with the past weaponry in the past and actually khadafi himself as well as his sons have all the time in thought to hide in that area and that's why many here on the ground are saying that if the rubbles managed to take this stronghold that was officially mean of the and of the colonel and the regimes for the national transitional council have recently repeatedly been claiming that police safe tripoli is now secure and the rebels there is coming here from benghazi soon but so far we haven't seen is find of them here in live in capitals the situation here is very complicated the streets are literally for the armed rebel fighters with actually a clear agenda that the interior minister has recently claims that the national transitional council will soon try to bring these people under their control but as we can see here they're not quite successful so far here's my report about that.

my hammer 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 which i know 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 of was discovered at the top security prison in southern 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 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 songs or the youngsters i'm concerned where our country will be going with god 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. when i grow up and have a real one and will kill bad guys like gadhafi then you're thor's you sayville soon start gathering up weapons through mosques and while police are back on the streets the young gunmen demonstrate their readiness to. we'll give it back to them as soon as they ask us to but 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 guard has played such a prominent role throughout libya's volatile history ridden ocean or r.t.

tripoli libya. it's been just two weeks since tripoli fell to the rebel forces but the interim government already being criticized by its own allies a key rebel military commanders calling on the leaders of the national transitional council to resign for being ex gadhafi loyalists and political satirist ted rall sees a new civil war brewing i have some sympathy for the lobby and his call to get rid of all the former regime figures i mean it's not much of a revolution if you have the former officials from the exit from the government that has just been deposed certainly not you would see any kind of division like that uses in a scenario where revolution is not fully realized and that seems to be the situation in libya any kind of revolutionary movement is an alliance of convenience but in the end where you end up with shah masood in afghanistan once said in the

one nine hundred eighty s. in the war against the soviets first we kill the russians next to kill each other in libya they go there and they have affectively kill the kid out the regime and now they're going to kill each other ten minutes past the hour here in the russian capital still to come for you here and are putting pressure on the press. british police to flex their muscles of the media telling news groups they have a responsibility to hand over right footage of looters to help make arrests. the first across to israel now a furious public have been making sure their government's in no doubt about their anger with the largest demonstration in the country's history the social protests have been sweating for two months against the high cost of housing corruption and other living standards reports now from the biggest friday being held in. 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 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 with people here 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. now one of the news turbans we're hearing is that we use the pain but that is a throwback to november the fourth one thousand nine hundred five when the former israeli prime minister yitzhak been ever been was assassinated people say where you've been so of course people here are saying where are you now with people really wanting to come to the streets and make a change and make their voices heard 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 the to now who has responded by arming settlers and trying to convince countries not to support the palestinian move instead of listening to the discounted messages at home. israel is also facing a rift on the global stage as turkey prepares to challenge the gaza blockade at the international court of justice it comes amid a dramatic siring of toys between the once close allies. expelled israel's ambassador and severed all military cooperation over its refusal to apologize for last year's gaza flotilla raid which killed nine turkish activists on friday the un investigation published a report into the attack and found that israeli commandos used excessive force when boarding the ship but it concluded the blockade of gaza is legal turkey says the findings are not binding and believe the hague should rule on the matter israeli foreign policy analyst dr nimrod goran says losing such an important ally turkey will be deeply felt. this is the exactly the situation that the ongoing

negotiations of the past month between israel and turkey with american mediation it tried to avoid an unfortunately failed basically the idea being presented an opportunity for israel to mend its relation of the turkey with turkey moving for me its alliance with syria to more coordination with the us a saw defect that such an agreement between israel and turkey well there was a very close with eventually not ph it's quite a blow to is there likely general foreign policy especially in the manner in which he is always expecting a very difficult diplomatic development with the un the whole condition of a palestinian state so now is there less one for an individual in a very important for arab and muslim country in nato member an e.u. applicant a very important regional player that is now in last four years that for quite some time. if you minutes from now the war crimes tribunal turns to us party the

hague has asked this channel for an archive interview with former bosnian serb general ratko he's on trial for genocide of the explaining why shortly. ukraine's crumbling over its gas but again with a row over the price with russia threatening to end up in court camps having trouble paying but when it's nationalized energy found with russia's gazprom to bring costs down kremlin insists the contract cannot be revised you know that tourney and will stand its ground. as this report. very harsh words are coming from both sides and right now the ukraine president viktor yanukovych is saying that his country is being humiliated in the course of negotiations over the gas price and also says that the ukraine might take this whole negotiation process into international court in stockholm to try to have the two thousand and nine gas deals revised moscow's position is that it is ready to accept any legal action because it is completely confident that justice is on its side and it's ready to fight on the

court should this happen saying that until a proper commercial offer comes in the price will stay the same and the negotiations will continue 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 when opel is now after gas with the russian. or approaches by mosco all of the transport gas transportation system in ukraine this harsh stance voiced by ukraine sent shock waves across europe many have been worried whether they would be another gas or 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 russia is no longer so strongly dependent on the transportation system in ukraine to deliver its gas supplies to europe we know that several new pipelines are being built i right now the north stream by plan is due to be completed pretty much soon the south stream by blind will also be available in the next few years so the gas war of two thousand and i will not repeat again even if there will be a serious gas conflict and possible suspension of supplies do you. rain coming in the next several months or maybe starting next year. or so goes red square has been marching to a different tune for the past few days the massive annual military tatoos been taking place there during hundreds of armed forces performers from around the world to parade in the capital's iconic center and artie's the telling of a was at the closing ceremony. right now we can see behind me russian marines military orchestra is getting ready for their performance itself loud sounds of

bright show here on the red square it's night military bands from all over fourteen countries performing alongside each other one that's corner and front of seventy thousand people gathered here with this big sad killer fans and many more live performances. television which you also can do by logging on to our website r.t. dot com where you can see live pictures all this military show together with the previous four days of the spot gets our festival national festival that's named after one of the towers of the kremlin military bands from asia to europe from north america from africa operating alongside each other and one of the headliners of this year's show is from an instant french singer and a mature she's opens the previous three shows here in the central russian capital as well as you can see the faces of both young and not so young viewers here in red square mesmerized by what's happening on the red square and it is truly

a very peaceful and beautiful occasion when military bands from different countries gather in the center of hope russian capital for that peaceful purpose of music making and this day also coincides with birthday today moscow turns eight hundred and sixty four years old and celebrations take place throughout the russian capital there are over seven hundred all of them including open air picnics and concerts and exhibitions as well you name it this parade will be followed by a huge laser show project since almost no state university the oldest university of moscow. many are saying that it may make it to the guinness book of records. beating drums to use of the red square. this week the spassky military tattoo offers you a spectacular standoff. and a hearty dot com gives you front row seats just. and enjoy the show.

well for more of what we're covering here at r.t. you can always log onto that website r.t. dot com let's take you through what else is lined up there at the moment it's online all the time we hear from an award winning serbian film director about his plans to build a traditional russian village in an ethnic settlement in that's a convenor. was one of the moment tapping into their own oil supply the people of a small town in georgia who were shocked to find few pouring into their homes those stories of r.t. dot com. but police have been putting pressure on journalists this week to hand over footage of last month's riots in order to identify looters in action but media organizations are resisting the requests to protect editorial standards and avoid being seen as evidence gatherers for the authorities police forces across the country approach media groups to voluntarily hand over used unseen footage scotland yard said it would obtain a court order to force disclosure of the material if necessary investigative

journalist tony gosling says the police run the risk of compromising fundamental press freedom. but i was very disappointed to see that david cameron in the emergency debate about the riots was actually saying and i quote the media has a responsibility to hand over pictures and i think this is absolutely appalling thing to say that's the sort of thing you would expect in a police state where the police can go down to the independent broadcasters and just demand footage demand details of people who've been taking film this kind of thing then go around potentially raid their homes too so i don't know where david camm is coming from on this. as far as i know we live in a liberal democracy and we've got a free and independent press the other thing is ultimately what's going to happen in a demonstration situation if you're going to have the crowd turning on the journalist they will come and even possibly lynch camera people thinking and if this goes through quite rightly in this case thinking that these people are actually this

they're filming evidence for the police and this is an absolutely unacceptable situation police in the media are trying to do a similar thing in certain circumstances particularly crimes just taking place and it's very important that both of them are doing it independently they have got forty thousand they've told us hours of c.c.t.v. footage to go through and it seems to me that maybe they're getting a bit bored with doing that and they're actually trying to actually co-opt the press in britain to be evidence gatherers for the police and that would be a horrendous thing if it ever takes place. committed twenty two minutes past the hour here in russia let's now bring you some more of today's world news in our world update the former head of the international monetary fund dominique strauss kahn has returned to france after sex assault charges were dropped against him in the u.s. he was arrested in new york in may after a hotel maid accused him of attempted rape strasse car was put under house arrest but later the case against him was dismissed by a judge as well as having to quit the i.m.f. he faces another sexual assault allegation in france by novelist.

iran's first nuclear power plant is now putting electricity into the country's national grid work on the bushehr facility began in the one nine hundred seventy s. but construction stalled until the ninety's when russia sent specialists to complete it both countries have agreed that spent atomic fuel from the plant will be sent to russia to reduce western concerns that iran could use the materials to build nuclear arms. tropical storm lee has reached landfall in louisiana in the southern u.s. there's a state of emergency in the region as well as coastal parts of mississippi where evacuations are taking place up to fifty centimeters of rain are expected over the next few days in louisiana including new orleans which is still haunted by the katrina flood disaster in two thousand and five it comes less than a week after hurricane irene killed more than forty people in the u.s. . the u.n. war crimes tribunal has missed a key piece of evidence in the trial against balkans war suspect. it's asked r.t.

for a copy of an archive interview with the former bosnian serb general which just a few weeks ago on this channel it was recorded shortly after the seven it's a massacre in one thousand nine hundred five where thousands of muslim men and boys were killed shows men that it's making serious allegations against u.n. peacekeepers in bosnia artie's and he has this report. 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 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 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 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 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 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 because these critics base their facts on is that seventy percent of the indictments that the court has issued have all been against serbs and when you look at. who is been tried over the past almost two decades you could say when you look at the serbs side in the other non serb generals or officials that have been tried a lot of them have been given much lesser sentences find some of them have even been acquitted and again this latest if you will missing of evidence by the tribunals is not going to help in criticism that the hague is in fact biased. well that interview with right coming out it is online in full on our website. as well as you choose a channel that set you chub dot com slash twenty six minutes past the hour here in

the russian capital and we're just a few moments away from hopefully seeing me skies light up for the capital's record breaking birthday bash these spectacular lasers and fireworks will be here shortly with a bit of luck here on r.t. so stay with us for that spectacular coverage.

nearly a billion people in the world are going hungry every day. in the united states even our trash cans are filled with food you just have to go get it all of these perfectly good eggs because one was cracked didn't even get all over the other ones just threw them all away rotten cheese from the german oh. we really like the upper crust. from the dumpster at one am this morning three pm this afternoon on the grill the cake made from one dozen dumpster. delicious breakfasts for the family make some toast for about a week every year in america we throw away ninety six billion pounds of food.

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market. to. find out what's really happening to the global economy with mike structure for a no holds barred look at the global financial headlines. is a report. from the russian capital top stories of the. rush hour is writing u.n.

security council members to demand an end to the. violence in syria prevent the uprising descending into another libyan scenario artie's investigating who's really behind the bloodshed and how much is really high. libyan rebels are poised across the last pockets of resistance from colonel gadhafi supporters with time running out for the loyalists to lay down arms. ukraine is turning up the heat on his gas route with moscow demanding the previously agreed price as a cart refusing to make any concessions russia maintains that current contract complies with international requirements and can be revised unilaterally. and a massive possibly record breaking the laser show who is concluding what turned out to be moscow's most expensive birthday party and we hope to bring you live pictures on that laser show in just a moment but first we're going live to red square where we are now seeing coverage of the fireworks which are culminating in the.