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

with today's top news stories and recapping the events that shaped our past week this is r t certainly glad to have you with us the un's most powerful body should demand an end to the violence in syria and move all parties into a 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 peter believe in scenario the brics nations will not allow this to happen the un security council will not tolerate how its reason lucian's are being implemented. has sharply criticized the latest use 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 to end 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. is among the international journalists and here's what she found. 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 manipulable manipulated and there have been reports of available online that you can watch of the footage that was taken in bahrain said to be taken in hama and it's showing the same footage and different stations with different backgrounds usually 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 you became the center of a controversy when according to various reports anywhere from several hundred to several thousand people were gathered here and 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 through some of the palestinians when they got to the stadium their ideas were taken away their cell phones were also taken away and they're really prepared for the worst because you have to realize that herding large numbers of people into stadiums carries them would all but very macabre macabre association especially in this particular region so the ankle sprain has developed sort of a practice of hurting people in the stadiums and then i think committing mass executions we went to the part of the city which supposedly came under fire from warplanes and maybe ships in support for the refugees to find out what happened here. 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. for their lives. we wanted to read 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 we came back on the land and so did two thousand refugees only to realize there was no air and navy attack taking place on the city. she felt like we were lied to but i just syrian authorities have long been insisting armed groups are behind the unrest in syria and it's them who starts shooting purged stations prompting bloodshed those statements are all but ignored by the media there are syria is

fighting in media war and it's losing it or it back into the syrian government might have realized its mistake of banishing foreign journalists from the country in the media law has overturned that but there is no guarantee it will go a long way towards changing series image as portrayed on major networks in those quite see syria. in libya the interim leadership claims colonel gadhafi is that youngest son who commanded in a military brigade was killed in the past week and has reportedly been buried in bani walid a loyalist stronghold one hundred fifty kilometers east of tripoli a town is now surrounded by rebels who are set to begin a final assault it comes after revolutionary leaders said on sunday negotiations over a peaceful handover of the town have failed or he's made a financial reports from tripoli. leeds is the name for the tried population the syria one of the biggest libyan tribes and staunchly devotion to the embattled colonel it's played

a prominent role during the current uprising he libya's since the beginning of the bands here a ferry people from these tribes have been fighting against the rebels all across libya pulling cheers from this area have been dying for khadafy in misrata and in other cities they've been all the time ardently supporting the colonel who's provided them with vast weaponry under past and actually conducted himself as well as his sons of time and thought to hide in that area that's why many here on the ground are saying that if the rubbles managed to take the stronghold that was officially means the end of the colonel and the regime's for the national transitional council have recently repeatedly been claiming that police say tripoli is now secure but travel theories are coming in here from and guises to 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 all the rebel fighters actually clear agenda

of the interior minister has recently claimed that the national council will soon try to bring these people under control but as we can see here they're not quite successful so far here's my report that. my hammer is a libyan rebel he got a bullet in his ankle fighting against gadhafi soldiers incision him a tripoli with a shot coming from his own side which i'll show i didn't even notice until my friend told me that my foot was bleeding he pulled the trigger by mistake he was himself. this is a reality of today's leave here for when the rebels stray off and march through 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

a major bomb the area of the dude with the father of three young boys refuses to appear on camera still fear of revenge from gadhafi loyalists he was among the first to the scene to help destroy the arsenal. which they don't want welcome still called to the homes of many songs on the youngsters and consumed by our country will be going with ground rules this is a very dangerous thing it's not a toy but with the country it was with arms it looks like live in kids have already developed a fascination for the weapons of war but. when i go out on her real life and will kill bad guys like it's nothing then your thorazine sayville soon start gathering up weapons through mosques and hopefully some 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 of 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 of albeit is it for many to lay down their arms when the guard has played such a prominent role throughout libya's volatile history. or even oxy faithfully maybe. and it is just been two weeks since tripoli fell to the rebel forces but the interim government is already being criticized by its own allies a key rebel military commander is calling on the leaders of the national council to resign for being x. get off it while it's political satirist ted rall sees a new civil war brewing and have some sympathy for. the lobby and his call to get rid of all the former regime figures it's not much of a revolution if you have former officials from the ex from the government that has just been deposed certainly not you would see any kind of diffusion like that uses in a scenario where revolution is not fully realized and that seems to be the situation

with you know any kind of revolutionary movement is an alliance of convenience but in the end are you end up with what the shah masood in afghanistan once said in the one nine hundred eighty s. in the war against the soviets first we kill the russians the next three kill each other in libya they can kill their david physically kill the get out the regime and now they're going to kill each other and still to come this hour. ukraine it turns out the food and its gas are our russian threatening court action over prices and what's. officials in washington have squandered a sixty billion dollars in iraq and afghanistan i said a report says that the money was lost in waste and fraud. on to israel now where hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across the country in what has been called of 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 costs of

living are his palace lawyer is in tel aviv for us with 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 touting the million man march they were really hoping that a million people would turn out on the streets of israel though we came in 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 crowds the rallying call remains that of social justice which people here demanding and it's on yahoo 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 here you know one of the new slogans we're hearing is where were you taken by whom there is a throwback to november the fourth ninety ninety five when the former israeli prime minister yitzhak rabin was assassinated people say where were you then so of course

people here are saying where are you now with people really wanting to come to the street 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 eight 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 a palestinian move instead of listening to the disc on children nesters at home. israeli equality campaigners. told r.t. protesters are demanding the government reconsider their priorities and put social issues over security. people are demanding social justice even in a time of political and political tension in even till the attacks that took place in. the country people are questioning that of the government that this is why you know the economy is slowly sheen so it's so much

a girls' school this fuel and so little for the many i think people have seen them in. no hope in this function in every level that government needs to function on the political front. in terms of the political process the negotiation with the palestinians no hawks in only fear in perceive beauty and also in the in the economic and social you see a dad i'm in there trying to tell people what is the order is what they can get in that's the best they can get in do nothing in order to improve the life of the people and this is what brings people in the street into the city they're asking for something else ukraine is grumbling over its gas bill again with a raul over the agreed price with russia threatening to end up in court. having

trouble paying but what we're just nationalized energy for with russia's gas plant to bring costs down across one insists the contracts cannot be revised unilaterally and will stand its ground or he's a looksee or reports. words are coming from both sides and right now the korean president 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 course 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 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 would justify the discount something like should it be there or merger of the ukraine in the us one of us left to guess with the russian joining us from war approaches by mosco the transported gas transportation system in ukraine this harsh stance by ukraine sent shock waves across europe many have been worried whether they would be another gas were another disruption of supplies in g.d.p. and continent but the russian energy minister said that's 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 supply steve europe we know that several new pipelines are being built i right now the north stream

pipeline is due to be completely pretty much soon the south stream pipeline 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 serious gas conflict and possible suspension of supplies to ukraine come. 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 at archie dot com as of right now it is fairly evenly spread but the majority say the dispute will be over after the two countries biggest gas corporations emerge about a quarter of you think ukraine will not get a price cut from russia 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 grumbling over its gas bill will make russia lower the price. of moscow has been celebrated central the sunday red square has also been marching to a massive military tattoo drawing hundreds of armed forces of performers from

around the world who've been showing off their skills the russian capital's also been wrapping up its eight hundred sixty fourth birthday with a stunning light show archies an italian overcoat is following the festivities. the celebration sofa moscow's eight hundred sixty fourth anniversary i have and that's with this since laser show project tents outside mostly state university the oldest university in russia is set to make it a guinness book of records all still in the celebrations of moscow's siding with the last day hold this truscott sour festival an annual festival of military officers from the around the world that takes place on red square central square listen to music from the easy to get a read of on site each other and the famous simply saying your dream if you become a headliner on that is that the third time. the third time she opens this so

it's very bright and very loud at the moment that should be amazing up it's easy to pull off thousands of viewers must might have guessed something she was supporting the troops from their own countries to see their own bodies but if you have missed it you can always watch it's on our website. has been following all the five days. this military orchestras parades here in central russia of course it's a grades a happy peaceful and beautiful occasion when three dads gathered for the purpose of music making a case in italian of course the reporting for us there from moscow now still to come this hour putting pressure on the press and. british police flex their muscles of the media telling news groups they have to do what they have a responsibility rather to hand over right footage of the looters to help make arrests. of the russian the village is dying out if you look at why people are fleeing the rural areas leaving desolate fields and crumbling where thriving

communities once stood. the victims of russia's deadliest terror atrocity have been remembered in the town of those laws where over three hundred thirty people mostly child. and were killed in their 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 of the other innocents who died when 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 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 to waste in the future

michael o'brien a former official who also worked in iraq has a contract that says despite the report the pentagon will continue to waste money because of its strategy for fighting wars 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. and 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 they estimate was wasted squandered lost more could be wasted because things have been built that will be able to meet that they more they can't maintain 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 operator 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 request to avoid being seen as evidence gatherers florrie the authorities police forces across the country approached media groups urging them to voluntarily hand over all footage used or i'm use what scotland yard said it would have a court order to force disclosure of the material if necessary to get a journalist tony gosling says that the police run the risk of compromising the fundamental press freedom. and 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 it's 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 back even possibly link 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 apologise another thing in certain circumstances if you when a crime is just like 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. for more on what we're covering here at

our t.v. you can get it all on our website let's take you through what else is lined up with what you got. we hear from an award winning serbian film director about his plans to build a traditional russian village in an ethnic settlement in herzegovina. and tapping into their own oil supply the people of a small town in georgia who were shocked to find fuel oil into their homes. and i'll spare you some more of today's world news the former head of the international monetary fund dominic strauss kahn turned to france on sunday 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. 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 and france novelist.

iran's first nuclear power plant is now putting electricity into the country's national grid work on the bush era facility began in the one nine hundred seventy s. but construction starved until the one nine hundred 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 is a state of emergency in the region as well as coastal parts of mississippi where you vaccinations are taking place up to fifty centimeters of rain are expected over the new the next few days in louisiana putting it new orleans which is still haunted by the katrina flood disaster in two thousand and five the gale comes less than a week after hurricane irene killed more than forty people in the u.s. . russia is that 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 the trees you've got a piece going off has more on the generation drain to hear how the few who stay behind are coping. no hot water or stable electricity supplies the nearest former seat post office and grocery store or miles away for tachyon or some sort or even is not the most difficult thing to cope with it's having no leaders that i know that they used to be so many families living here but then some people died some of their everybody's 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 but young has been here all her life with no nearly all the work to privilege our home 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're 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 tumble down barns and abandoned houses even in these areas known for centuries for their great harvests. he says 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 shore some of the cultural 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 and many small schools and hospitals have shut down there's simply no one to educate or treat anymore and life in the countryside is no longer attractive especially for young people who are

fleeing to cities looking for a better life. it's not the village which is becoming extinct it's the youth reasons for self motivation people are leaving their villages for big cities but they often don't know what to do there so they can find a job or a family build a life. of course there are examples of successful forming businesses in russia but experts agree they're only a drop in the ocean and aren't enough to motivate the us to work and live in the community and as many try to survive in cities looking for work the countryside is dying out although some traces of life still exist here and there it may not be too long before they fall silent altogether. but. he got to school of central russia. and i'll be back with

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