russia urges of the un security council to help end the violence suppression of anti-government protests in syria. in libya rebels that surround one of these last remaining strongholds in the east of tripoli which reports one of the colonels and son being killed in the area. and other top stories of the week hundreds of thousands of israelis take to the streets across the country demanding the government improve the living standards rather than spending money on settlements and the military. bosco's a blaze of color with fireworks breaking laser show as the russian capital celebrates its eight hundred sixty fourth birthday.

recapping the top stories that shape the past week this is our team live from moscow credit you with us. the un's most powerful body should demand an end to the violence in syria and move all parties into dialogue that is russia's view outlined by the foreign minister during a meeting with his brazilian counterpart on sunday. we strongly believe feeds on acceptable to instigate the syrian opposition to continue boycotting suggestions to start a dialogue this is a call for a pizza believe in scenario the brics nations will not allow this to happen the un security council will not tolerate how its reserve lucian's are being implemented. russia has sharply criticized of the latest e.u. sanctions against syria calling them harmful and ineffective in solving the crisis europe's imposing an oil embargo and warned of further steps to force president assad the end of 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 put some including at the syrian government say the reports about the conflict are far from reality at least it is among the few international journalists there here's what she felt. 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 is even the implication that some of the of the images we're being shown have been digitally manipulated and there have been reports of available online that you can watch of footage that was taken in bahrain 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 them would over very macabre macabre association especially in this particular region so i'm hussein has developed sort of a practice of hurting people in stadiums and then i think committing mass executions we went to the part of the city which supposedly came under fire from warplanes only ships in 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. 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 they are homeless syria is fighting the media and it's losing it over. the syrian government

might have realized its mistake of banishing foreign journalists from the country and 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 quite see syria in libya the interim leadership claims colonel gadhafi youngest son who commanded an elite military brocade it was killed in the past week . has reportedly been buried in bani walid a loyalist stronghold one hundred fifty kilometers east of tripoli the town is now surrounded by rebels who are set to begin a final assault comes after revolutionary leaders said on sunday a goetia over a peaceful handover of the town had failed or he's more of a national reports from tripoli. i believe is the name for the tried populate in this area one of the biggest li been tried and staunch in the devotion to the embattled colonel it's played a prominent role during the current our prize and he libya since the beginning of

the vans here in february people from these tribal have been fighting against the rebels all across libya volunteers from this area have been dying for. things bragger and in other cities all the time ardently supporting the colonel who's provided them with the past weaponry in the past ammunition and actually could 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 rebels manage to take this stronghold that will officially mean at the end of the colonel and the regimes fall the national transitional council have recently repeatedly been claiming the police safe tripoli is now secure and that rebels there is coming here from ben guys his soon but so far we haven't seen is sign of them here live in capitals the situation here is very complicated the streets are literally all the armed rebel fighters we've actually clear agenda of the interior minister has recently claimed that the

national transitional council will soon start to 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. is a libyan rebel who got involved in his ankle fighting against gadhafi soldiers in seclusion or tripoli but with his shots coming from his own side which. 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 into march from the country tons of conduct 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 khadafi loyalists he was among the first at the scene and helped destroy the arsenal. i don't want weapons to fall in the hands of my songs or the youngsters i'm concerned who are considerably growling with drugs this is a very dangerous thing it's not a toy but with the country it was without arms it looks like libyan kids have already developed a fascination for the weapons of war. when i grow up i have real life and will kill bad guys like gadhafi then you're thor's you save of gathering up weapons through mosques i wrote police are back on the streets the young gunman demonstrate their readiness to. will give it back to them as soon as they ask the system 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 of 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. we're even arsenal azzi fatefully libya has been just two weeks a sense that tripoli fell to the rebel forces but the interim government is already being criticized by its own allies a rebel military commander is calling on the leaders of the national transitional council to resign for being the loyalists 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 this is just beyond. certainly 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 with any kind of revolutionary movement is an alliance of convenience but in the end you end up with where the shah masood in afghanistan once said in the ninety's in the war against the soviets first we kill the russians and next to kill each other in libya they go kill they are an idiot if you think we kill the kid out the regime and now they're going to kill each other and still to come this hour. ukraine turns up if they keep and it's a gas route with russia threatening court action over prices plus. officials in washington have squandered sixty billion dollars in iraq and afghanistan a senate report saves up the money was lost in waste and fraud. going on to israel now where hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across the country and what has been called the biggest anti-government rally in the history of the state the protesters are demanding social reforms calling on the government to lower the excessive cost of living. there was

a television for us covering the latest developments. it is the climax of nearly two months of social protests here in israel the launches that 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 oh oh oh oh oh you know one of the new slogan is me hearing is where we use the ten best food there is a photo back to november the fourth ninety ninety five when the former israeli prime minister yitzhak ever again 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 and yet instead of concentrating on domestic problems israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu has been focused on the international stage on september the twentieth palestinians will go to the united nations to declare a state and it in yahoo has responded by arming settlers and trying to convince countries not to support the palestinian move instead of listening to the despond told messes at home. israeli quality campaigner you are oppenheimer told r.t. that the protesters are demanding the government reconsider their priorities and put social issues over security. people demand in social justice even in a time of political and political tension in even till the attacks that took place in. the of the country people are questioning the of the government and this is why you know the economy is flourishing in so. much girls school of if

you and so little for the many i think people have seen them in and that creates no hope in this function in every level of government needs to function on the political of. live there in terms of the political process the negotiation with the palestinians. in only fear is in perceiving and also in the in the economic and social you see a government there trying to tell people what is the or that is what they can get in that's the best they can get in do nothing in order to put improve the life of people and this is what brings people in this into this league they're asking for something else ukraine is grumbling over its gas bill again with iran over the agreed price with russia running debt up in court having trouble paying mergence

nationalized energy for with russia was just trying to bring down costs insists the contracts cannot be revised unilaterally and will stand its ground or his overseer shuster reports. very harsh words are coming from both sides and right now the ukraine president because of the court which 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 moskos 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 in court should this happen saying that until a proper commercial for 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 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 which to justify the discount something like should that be there or merger of the ukrainian gas monopolist nafta gas with the russian scrum or a purchase by mosco of the transportation 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 and to 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 russia is no longer so strongly dependent on the best 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 pipeline is due to be completed pretty much soon the south stream pipeline will

also be available in the next few years so by 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 you. rain coming in the next several months or maybe starting next year and we ask your opinion on how the gas dispute between russia and ukraine will and on our website are two dot com it is a fairly evenly spread at this point but the majority say the dispute will be over after the two countries biggest council gas appropriations merged about a quarter of you think ukraine will not get a prize from russia and will pay the market price for gas just over twenty percent of you say europe will once again be hit by a gas crisis all the rest believe ukraine is rumbling over its gas bill and will make russia lower the price of. moscow's it been celebration central this sunday red square has been marching to a massive military tattoo drawing hundreds of armed forces performers from around the world who have been showing off their skills the russian capital also has been

wrapping up its eight hundred sixty fourth birthday with a stunning light show which is not telling of course is following the festivities. celebration sofa moscow's eight hundred sixty fourth anniversary i have and it's with the since laser show project heads out so most of the state university the oldest university in russia is said to make into the guinness book of records most of the celebrations of moscow's birthday coincided with the last day hold this truscott sour festival in the annual festival of military orchestras from all around the world that takes place on the red square central square called list to use reaching bands from putin countries gathered here today to parade alongside each other and it's a famous if strange figurine the kid has become one of the headliner all that is annual event for the third time in a row for the third time she's hoping this is true even if it's very bright sounds very loud so our performance is a truly amazing opportunity see more thousands of us muscovites and guests all

fifteen more supporting the troops of their own countries to see it with their own eyes but if you have missed it you can always watch it's on our website our goal is r d has been following the five days of. this military or history's raids. in central russia of course it's a grades a happy peaceful and beautiful occasion when military bands gathered for the purpose of music making and still to come this hour putting pressure on the press. british police flex their muscles of the media telling news groups they have a responsibility to hand over riot footage of looters to help make arrests. of the russian a village isn't dying out you look at why people are fleeing the rural areas leaving desolate fields and crumbling where thriving communities wants to. the victims of russia's deadliest terror atrocity have been remembered in the town

of this law where over three hundred thirty people mostly children were killed in that school this week thousands of people paid their respects to the victims of the attack. which happened seven years ago hundreds of balloons were released in a symbolic display to the murdered children and the other innocents who died in terrorists held around a thousand people hostage in a school for three days without food or water. the u.s. has lost around sixty billion dollars in waste and fraud in iraq and afghanistan over the past decade the u.s. senate commission into wartime contracting has estimated this week's report claims that the money was lost through poor planning and a lack of oversight and outright scams by u.s. contractors and federal employees the panel also suggested implementing stricter measures to control spending to prevent even more money being raised in the future michael o'brien a former official who also worked in iraq as a contractor says despite the report the pentagon will continue to waste money because of its strategy for fighting wars but the authors of the report say that

the ratio is practically one to one contractor to soldier which is absolutely there's no doubt in my mind that it's at least that and it says that america can't fight its wars without contractors anymore so much for a why and says 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. to me was wasted squandered lost and more could be wasted because things have been built that won't be able to me they won't 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 and operate it and the afghanis simply don't have the ability to do that so corruption we've created a corruption. 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 avoid being seen as evidence

galleries for your forties police forces across the country approached media groups urging them to voluntarily hand over all footage used or unused but scotland yard said it would obtain of court order to force disclosure of the material your necessary investigative journalist tony gosling says the police run the risk of compromising fundamental freedom of the press. 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 they become 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 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 a crime has just taken place and it's very important that both of them are doing it independently they have got thirty 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 cameras for the police and that would be a horrendous thing if it ever takes place and for more on what we're covering here at r t you can get it on our website let's take you through what else. lined up at r.t. dot com. we hear from an award winning a serbian film director about his plans to build a traditional russian village in an ethnic settlement in herzegovina. and chaffing

into their own oil supply the people of a small town in georgia who were shocked to find fuel pouring into their homes. and let's bring you some more of today's world news. the former head of the international monetary fund dominique strauss kahn returned to france on sunday 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 trial scarlett 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 tristan ban on. iran's first nuclear power plant is now putting electricity into the country's national grid working on the bush era 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 would be sent to russia to reduce western concerns that iran could use the materials to build nuclear rods. tropical storm lee has reached a landfall in louisiana in the southern u.s. prisons 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 of two thousand and five a gale concert 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 are dying out as a result archies you got a piece going off as a more on the generation drain to hear how the few who stayed behind are corporate . no hot water or stable electricity supplies the nearest pharmacy post office and grocery store or miles away for fourteen or some sort or even that

is not the most difficult thing to cope with it's having no leaders that i don't know where 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 year and has been here all her life with no nearly all that's left of the village our home memories this used to be a collective farm back in saudia 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. there's a hearty sygate travels around the country and explores deserted towns and villages

he says he's used to seem tumbledown warns and bound in houses even in these areas known for centuries for their great harvests. this is fertile land you can stick a pall in the soil here and it will have peppers growing on its one side and tomatoes on the other sure some of the cultural facilities are still left in some areas but mostly the lambs empty abandoned. official figures show that over three thousand villages in russia became deserted last year alone many small schools and hospitals have shut down there's simply no one to educate we're treating more life in the countryside is no longer attractive especially for young people who are fleeing to cities looking for a better wife. you know 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 already 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 way from still exist here and there it may not be too long before the force silent altogether. he got his gun off central russia. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments stay with archie. the

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