live here in moscow the un's that most powerful body should demand an end to the violence in syria a move all parties into dialogue that's russia's view outlined 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 brics nations will not allow this to happen the un security council will not tolerate how its resolutions are being implemented. russia has sharply criticized the latest sanctions against syria calling them harmful and ineffective in solving the crisis europe's imposing an oil embargo and want to further steps to force president assad and the five month crackdown on protesters the 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. is among the few international

journalists there here's 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 drubbed and so there are some very strange things that are going on right now an example of such manipulation is the case of palestinian refugees in the coastal city of latakia the stadium in the 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 of a very macabre macabre association especially in this particular region so the uncle saying 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 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 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 changing series the image as portrayed on major networks even those carty syria. to live in now the new interim leaders say they're sure that one of colonel gadhafi sons who commanded and elite military brigade was killed in the past week come as khadafi 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 lawyer said until next saturday to surrender but the rebels say negotiations a failed you're about to begin a final assault if an ocean of reports now from the libyan capital. is the name for the tried populate in this area one of the biggest libyan 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 tribes have been fighting against the rebels all across libya volunteers from this area have been dying for khadafy in

misrata things bragger 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 ammunition and actually khadafi himself as well as his sons have all the time in thought to hide in that area that's why many here on the ground are saying that if the rubbles managed to take this stronghold that was officially mean at the end of the colonel and the regime's fall 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 full the armed rebel fighters with actually a clear agenda of the interior minister has recently claims that the national transitional council will soon start trying 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. mohamed 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 to boys 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 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

sons 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 a 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 save start gathering up weapons through mosques and well police are back on the streets the young gunmen demonstrate their readiness to. will 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 that god 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. we're even ati tripoli

libya. it's been just two weeks since tripoli fell to the rebel forces but the interim government is already being criticized by its own analyze a key rebel military commanders calling on the leaders of the national transitional council to resign for being x. could have a law on this 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 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 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 week kill each other in libya they kill there to be able to quickly kill the kid off the regime and now they're going to kill each other. live here in moscow still to come this hour ukraine turns up the heat and its gas route with russia threatening court action over prices plus. sit down if you're a u.s. taxpayer because military order to submit that sixty eight billion dollars of your money has gone missing in the past decade we'll explain. that still to come but next to israel now a furious public have been making sure their governments in no doubt about the anger with the largest demonstration in the country's history the social protests have been swelling for two months against the high cost of housing corruption and other living standards. reports now from the biggest rally and tell of it. 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 doubling 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 saying that it is simply too expensive to live in israel. you know one of the new surrogates we're hearing is where were you surprised by the food that is a throwback to november the fourth one thousand nine hundred five when the former israeli prime minister yitzhak bane ever been was assassinated people say where were you then so of course people here saying where are you now with people really wanting to come to the streets and make a change and make their voices heard 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 a tin yahoo has responded by arming settlers and trying to convince countries not to support the palestinian move instead of listening to the discounted messes at home. and is really a quality campaign a unit open i'm a told r.t. that people there are demanding more from their government to be a social rather than security provider. people demanding so she had adjusted even in a time of political split and political tension and even till the attacks that took place in the inboard off of the country people are questioning of the government this is why i know the economy is slowly cian so. much girls school the fuel and so little for the many i think people have seen and government that

creates no hope in this function in every level that government needs to function on the political. level in terms of the political process the negotiation with the palestinians on no hopes in only sheer as in perceive it and also in the. economic and social alley and there you see a government that trying to tell people that what is the all that is what they can get and that's the best they can get in do nothing other to put improve the lytle people this is what brings people in the street into the city they're asking for something else ukraine is crumbling over its gas bill again with a row over the agreed price with russia threatening to end up in court camps having trouble paying but it's nationalized energy firm with russia's gazprom to bring costs down the kremlin says the contract cannot be revised intellectually and will stand its ground. reports. 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 no 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 a marriage of the ukrainian novelist now to gas with the russian gas or a purchase by mosco of the transport and 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 were another disruption of supplies into the 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 gas transportation system in ukraine to deliver its gas supplies to europe we know that several new pipelines are being built by right now the north stream pipeline 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 to ukraine coming in the

next several months or maybe starting next year. moscow's been celebration central this sunday red square has been marching to a massive military to two drawing hundreds of armed forces performers from around the world who've been showing off their skills the russian capital is also being wrapping up its eight hundred sixty fourth birthday with a stunning light show artie's the talent of a very is following the festivities. the celebration sofa moscow's eight hundred sixty fourth anniversary i have and that's where they're magnificent laser show project tents outside mosco state university the oldest university in russia is said to make it to the guinness book of records all see the celebrations of moscow's birthday coincided with the last day all of this just gets our festival an annual festival of military orchestras from all around the world that takes place on the red square in central square. military bands from fourteen countries gathered here today to parade alongside each other and it's

a famous and strange finger agreement she has now become a headliner all this annual event for the third time in a row for the third time she's open to this truly magnificent very bright sounds very loud for our performance he said truly amazing opportunities see for thousands of yours muscovites and guests all to see who are supporting the troops of the own countries to see it with their own eyes but if you have missed it you can always support you it's on our website. has been following all the five days of. this military orchestras parades in central russia of course it's a great happy peaceful and beautiful occasion when military bands gather for the purpose of music making. as you've been its policy in the russian capital still to come putting pressure on the press british police flex their muscles of the media telling news groups they have a responsibility to hand over wrought footage of new just to help make arrests.

on the russian villages during a look at what people are fleeing rural areas leaving desolate fields and crumbling houses with thriving communities one stood. the victims of russia's deadliest terror atrocity had been remembered in the town of beslan where over three hundred thirty people mostly children were killed in the school this week thousands of people paid their respects to the victims of the attack which up . seven years ago hundreds of balloons were released in a symbolic display to the murdered children and the other innocents who died the terrorists hold around a thousand people hostage in a school for three days without food or water. how do you lose sixty billion dollars when american taxpayers are asking just that question to military order to method that's how much money has gone missing and a decade of foreign conflicts the senate commission on water time contracting claims the losses mounted through poor planning and floored by contractors and federal employees the panel suggests strict spending controls to plug the cash leap

little too late for antiwar campaign john glaser he says the naming and shaming won't stop the pentagon's profligacy. this is just one report in a field of many describing such profligate waste in the american empire there's been previous reports about u.s. aid going directly to fund the insurgency that is the taliban who are ostensibly there to be fighting there is a report out done by the center for public integrity that investigates the pentagon's practice of the no bid contracts for defense industry corporations which is ballooned to a one hundred forty billion dollars problem in two thousand and eleven so this kind of ways does just wide spread throughout the wars i'm concerned about there not having there not being enough of an effect from these reports the recommendations within the report sort of have the air of usual washington type advice build

another bureaucracy to watch over for oversight in this department you know hire an inspector general so on and so forth i'm concerned that the recommendations of this committee although their analysis of waste is very valuable and concerned that their recommendations won't even take place or if they do they'll be wasteful still . british 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 gathering for the authorities police forces across the country approach media groups to voluntarily hand over used and unseen footage scotland yard said it would obtain a court order to force disclosure of the material if necessary receive the journalist twenty goals and says please 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 crown turning on the journalist they will come and even possibly lynch camera people thinking in it 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. well for more of what we're covering here at r.t. can get it all on our website and let's take you through what else is lined up at the moment a darty dot com we hear from an award winning serbian film director about his plans to build a traditional russian village in an ethnic settlement and that's a given or. tapping into their own oil supply the people of a small town in georgia who are shocked to find fuel pouring into their homes. let's bring you some more of today's world news now in our world update the former head of the international monetary fund dominique strauss kahn has returned to france after a 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 stross com was put under house arrest

but later the case against him was dismissed by a judge but it's having to quit the i.m.f. he faces another sexual assault allegation in france by novelist. runs first nuclear power plant is now putting electricity into the country's national grid work on the bushehr facility began in the one 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 a gale comes less than a week after hurricane irene killed more than forty people in the u.s.

. russia's youth are beating a path to the big cities to make their living but the rural towns they leave behind dying out as a result you got to skim off has more now on the generation drained he held the few who stay behind a coping. no hot water or stable electricity supplies the nearest pharmacy post office and grocery store or miles away for tiana some sort or even that is not the most difficult thing to cope with it's having no neighbors that. they used to be so many families living here but then some people died some left 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 has been here all her life but no nearly all that's left of the village or 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 agricultural facilities are still left in some areas but mostly the lambs and abandoned. official figures show that over three thousand villages in russia became deserted last year alone many small schools and hospitals have shut down there's simply no one to educate or treat anymore life in

the countryside is no longer attractive especially for young people who are fleeing to cities looking for a better life. and 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 because the side is dying out although some traces of life still exist here and there it may not be too long before they fall silent altogether.

no idea where. he got his going off or to central russia. come up to about twenty seven minutes past the hour now i'll be back with the week's top stories in just a few moments stay with us live here and ask. how you know the military in the ninety's sixty six i got over because the things i saw

the things i was doing and this reason said we were given for doing and it was a personal protest. during the vietnam war in a two war movement emerged that altered the course of history this movement didn't take place on college campuses but in variants and on ships it penetrated elite military colleges like west point and it spread throughout the battlefields of vietnam yet today few people know about the g.i. movement against the war in vietnam. after the army we always said free the army or fun travel and adventure but it really meant to be harmed.

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a top stories now that russia is rallying the un security council members to demand an end to the violence in syria and prevent the uprising descending into another libyan scenario he's investigating who's really behind the bloodshed and how much is hype. libyan rebels are poised to cross the last pockets of resistance from colonel gadhafi supporters with time running out for the loyalists to lay down arms . israeli's a state of biggest of anti-government protest against edwin living standards of a three hundred thousand people gathered nationwide to get the government to spend more on social programs instead of settlements and the military. has been the scene of celebration the son of a mocking its eight hundred sixty fourth birthday with an eye opening light show is still moscow state university is the canvas for a multi-million dollar display on the military's be taking of a red square wrapping up another five day to turn with russian and foreign forces marching together. but that's it.