coverage. in. russia urges the u.n. security council to help end the violence suppression of anti-government protests in russia. in libya rebels that surround one of the cut off these last remaining strongholds of the east of tripoli with reports of one of the colonel's sons having been killed in syria. and other top stories of the 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 is a blaze of color with fireworks and a record breaking laser show as the russian capital celebrates its eight hundred sixty fourth birthday.

and your top stories a commentary on news from the past week this is r.t. glad to have you with us on the un's that most powerful body should demand an end to the violence in syria and to 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 it's unacceptable 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 resolutions are being implemented that russia has sharply criticized the latest use sanctions against syria calling them harmful and ineffective in solving the crisis in europe's imposing about oil embargo and warned of further steps to force president assad to end 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 sun including the syrian government say the reports about the conflict are far from reality or he's even among the few international journalists there is what she found out. mass murder and tearing catastrophe a country on a 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 b. images we're being shown have been digitally enabled manipulated and there have been reports about 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 different stations with different backgrounds to leapfrog in so there are some very strange things that are going on right now an example of such manipulation is the key said palestinian refugees in the coastal city of latakia the stadium attack it

became the center of the controversy when according to various reports anywhere from several hundred to seven 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're really prepared for the worst because you have to realize that curbing 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 in the ships and spoke to the refugees to find out what happened. some people walking around the neighborhood yelling there will be shelling from sea soon

and everyone has to get out i didn't go anywhere just stayed in my house i can see the bay from my window and there was nothing in there aside from the usual patrol. still gunfire did break out between the army and government so some five thousand palestinians left their homes fearing for their lives. we wanted to read so that our kids wouldn't hear the gunshots we hid 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 to london so did two thousand refugees only to realize there was no air and media attack taking place on the city. we took out like we were lined to have a couple i just syrian authorities have long been insisting armed groups are behind the unrest in syria and it's them who starts shooting first jewish history prompting bloodshed those statements are all but ignored by the media i haven't

syria is fighting a media war and it's losing it or of. the syrian government might have realised its mistake of banishing foreign journalists from the country in the media law has overturned that ban 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 a libya the interim leadership claims colonel gadhafi is that youngest son who commanded in the lead a military brigade was killed in the past week. has reportedly been buried in a bani walid a loyalist stronghold and other than fifty kilometers east of tripoli the 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 more if a notion of reports from tripoli. i believe is the name for the tried population the syria 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 tribal have been fighting against rebels all across libya volunteers from this area have been dying for kentucky in misrata things bragger and in other cities they've been all the time ardently supporting the colonel who's provided them with a fast weaponry and past ammunition and actually as well as his sons the time he 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 mean the end of the colonel and the regime for the national transitional council had recently repeatedly been claiming that police say tripoli is now secure. rebel theories are coming in here from and guises 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 all the armed rebel fighters actually clear agenda of the interior

minister has recently claimed that the national council will soon try to bring these people under the control but as we can see here they're not quite successful so far here's my report about that. he is a libyan rebel he got a bullet in his ankle fighting against gadhafi soldiers in tsushima tripoli but with a shot coming from his side. i didn't even notice until my friend told me that my food was bleeding he pulled the trigger by mistake he was saul spirit himself. this is a reality of today's leave here for when the rebels stray off and march through the country tons of gadhafi 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 do this before they were three young boys refuses to appear on camera still fear of revenge from gadhafi loyalists he was among the first to seen and helped destroy the arsenal. i don't want work most of all the grounds of my songs on the youngsters i'm concerned grow are going to 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 libyan kids have already developed a fascination for the weapons of war. when i go out and have real life and will kill bad guys like gadhafi then your thought is you say you go through gathering up weapons from mosques our own police are back on the streets the young gunman demonstrate their readiness to call in we'll give it back to them as soon as they ask a system which many here are afraid that this addiction may have a painful withdrawal the gun has become one of the symbols of the libyan rebels and

freedom for a new country though people want more peaceful symbols but fear of albeit is if for many to lay down their arms when the guard has played such a prominent role throughout libya's volatile history. or even osha azzi family libya and it's been just two weeks since a tripoli fell to the rebel forces but the interim government is already being criticized by its own allies a key rebel military commanders are calling on the leaders of the national transitional council to resign for being x. could off the loyalists political satirist ted rall sees a new civil war broke 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 are former officials from the exit from the government that is just and those are 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

with any kind of revolutionary movement is an alliance of convenience but in the end are you going to go with shah masood in afghanistan once said in the weeks and eighty's in the war against the soviets first we kill the russians next to each girl each other in libya be killed there and they would think if we kill gadhafi regime and now they're going to kill each other. and still to come this hour. ukraine turns up in the heat and it's a gas well with russia threatening court action over the crisis plus. officials in washington have squandered sixteen billion dollars in iraq and afghanistan a senate report says the money was lost in the waste fraud. on to israel now where hundreds of thousands of people took to the streets across the country and what has been called of the biggest anti-government rally in the history of the state where protesters are demanding social reforms calling on the

government to lower the excessive costs of living artie's a policy or was in television for us following the developments. it is the climax of nearly two months of social protests here in israel the largest that this country has ever seen now for weeks organizers have been touting a million man march they were really hoping that a million people would turn out on the streets of israel though we're 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 crowds the rallying call remains that of social justice with people here demanding they're going to turn now to government changes focus away from the issues of security to issues of social justice the people here saying that it is simply too expensive to live in israel oh ok now one of the new slogans we're hearing is that where were you ten but that 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 a voice is 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 fifth palestinians will go to the united nations to declare a state and it in yahoo has responded by arming sitters and trying to convince countries not to support the palestinian move instead of listening to the disc on children messes at home. reporting for us there now israeli equality campaigner. told r.t. that the protesters are demanding the government reconsider their priorities and put social issues over security. demanding social justice even in a kind of political and political tension in even the took place in. the country people have questioning that of the government this is why i know the

economy is slowly cian so. much girls' schools if you will and so little for the many and i think people have seen them in. no hope in this function in every level that government needs to function on the political of. in terms of the political process in negotiation with the palestinians no whore only fear is in perceiving and also in the in the economic and social you see a government. trying to tell people that what is the order is what they can get in that's the best they can get in and do nothing in order to put improve the life of people this is what brings people in the street into the city and they're asking for something else ukraine's grumbling over to ask with

a raul over the agreed price with russia threatening to end up in court as having trouble paying but won't merge its nationalized energy firm with russia's gazprom to bring costs down insists the contract cannot be revised unilaterally and will stand its ground or seize alexy or shuster reports. very harsh words are coming from both sides right now the ukrainian president b.p. amoco 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 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 that price it's paying for the russian gas and right now pays 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 either a merger of the ukrainian gas monopolist you have to guess with the russian people joining us from or purchased by most of the transported us transportation system in ukraine this harsh stance voiced by ukraine send shock waves across europe many have been worried whether they would be another gas were another disruption of supplies into the replay and 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 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 i guess war of two thousand and i will not repeat again even if there will be serious gas conflict and possible suspension of supplies to ukraine coming in the next several months or maybe starting next year. and we ask your opinion on how the gas dispute between russia and ukraine will end on our website at r t god complex it's fairly evenly spread of this point but the majority of you 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 tag from russia and will pay the market price for gas just over forty percent of you say europe will once again be hit by a gas crisis and all the rest believing ukraine's rumbling over skakel will make russia lower the price. moscow's it been celebration central this

sunday red squares have been marching to a massive military tattoo drawing hundreds of armed forces performers from around the world who've seen who've been showing off their skills the russian capital also has been wrapping up its eight hundred sixty fourth birthday with a stunning a light show or he's an italian overcovered is following the festivities. the celebration sofa moscow's eight hundred sixty fourth anniversary i have and that's with a sense laser show project tents outside mostly state university the oldest university in russia is set to make it to the guinness book of records and will see the celebrations of moscow's they coincide with the last day hold this truscott's our festival an annual festival with orchestras from the around the world that takes place on threads where central square looks to music from the police gathering to get a great alongside each other to feed misinformation seeing their dream the kids become a headliner all that is and you leave that for the third time in your role for the

third time she opens this is true even if it's in turkey right sounds very loud so our performance this is a truly amazing opportunity to see the floor thousands of viewers most might send guests over to see or supporting the troops from their own countries to see it with their own eyes but if you have missed it you can always watch it's on our web site . has been following all the five days of. this military orchestra's parades here in central russia of course it's a grades a happy peaceful and beautiful occasion when three bands gathered for that purpose music. and still to come of this are putting pressure on the press. corps to police flex their muscles of the media telling news groups they have a responsibility to hand over riot footage of the looters to help make arrests. and the russian village is a guy no we look at why people are fleeing the rural areas leaving desolate fields

and crumbling causes 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 children were killed in their school this week thousands of people paid their risk. thanks 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 the terrorists held around a thousand people hostage in the school for three days without food or water. and how do you lose sixty billion dollars american taxpayers are asking just that question to military auditors who've admitted that's how much money has gone missing in a decade of foreign conflicts the senate commission on a wartime contracting claims the losses mounted through poor planning and fraud by contractors and federal employees the panel suggests strict spending controls to do

the casually but it's too little too late for an anti-war campaigner john glazier he says the naming and shaming won't stop the pentagon's. excuse me spending. but this is just one report in the 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 their 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 avoid being seen as evidence gathering before the authorities police forces across the country approached me a group's urging them to voluntarily hand over all footage used that were unused scotland yard said it would obtain a court order to force disclosure of the material if necessary vertical to the list tony gosling says the police run the risk of compromising fundamental freedom of the press. 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 details of people who've been taking film this kind of thing don't 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 definitely 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 again 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 speaking when a crime is just like that it's very important that both of them are doing it

independently they have got thirty thousand they 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 are t.v. you can get it on our website let's take you through what else is lined up at our g. dot com. we hear from unordered winning serbian film director about his of plans to build a traditional russian village in an ethnic settlement and herzegovina. and the tapping into their own oil supply the people of a small town in georgia who were shocked to find fuel pouring into their homes. and . now let's bring you some more of today's world news hundreds of thousands marched in the yemeni capital sanaa on sunday demanding president saleh

resign five protesters were injured when security forces opened fire to disperse the rally that have also erupted in other major cities across the country marches come amid growing tension and reports of heavy shelling in the capital political crisis has gripped yemen since february the president was in saudi arabia for treatment following an attack on his compound has announced he is ready to hold a presidential election. the former head of the international monetary fund that makes transcon and 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 condit 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. 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 stalled 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. 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 i t z got a piece of art has more on the generation drainage you hear how the few who stay behind are coping. no hot water or stable electricity supplies the nearest pharmacy post office and grocery store or miles a week for thirteen or some sort or even that 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 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 piece together that yearning has been here all her life but no nearly all that's left of the village are 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 greens harvests. this is fertile land you can stick a pole in the soil here and it will have to happen is growing on its one side and tomatoes on the other sure some of the cultural facilities are still left in some

areas but mostly alarms 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 wife when you need 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 i want you know off to motivate the youth to work and live in the real community and as many try to survive in cities looking for work the countryside is dying out although some traces of wife still exist here and there it

may not be too long before they fall silent altogether. but. when. he got his going off or to central russia. and i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments stakes are today.

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