both sides things aren't just black and white they're the antigovernment protesters in syria are not followers of some refined european models of democracy some of the market but it's right extremists and some might even be called terrorists the situation is not simple and we have to take into account the balance of different forces and interests russia may support certain moves but only if they don't boil down to the one sided condemnation of the government and president assad we should send a strong message calling on all the conflicting parties to come to the negotiating table start talks and stop the bloodshed. in libya the head of the country's interim government has arrived in the capital tripoli for the first time since it fell to rebel forces most of the country is now controlled by the national transitional council gadhafi loyalists have been putting up fierce resistance in bani walid one of the colonel's last strongholds nato airstrikes continue to assist the rebels and his ousted leader is on the run and now on interpol's wanted list he's claimed in recent messages that he's still in the country program that the

fighters have been given until saturday to surrender to the new leadership in streets across the country celebrations over the end of the old regime of being replaced by fear as autism or if an ocean reports. a city celebrates more than ten days of even capital has been reached in the dictator's fall where he wanted to hand he's portrayed here in the central square for his rules forty seconds and in verse three but we put our flag up in stand we want we are so happy because. it seems in the last weeks rebel fighters have. been here ever shot here in this old country from an early august. give me no very good will with. mr gaddafi. he told me he would love me you. know you would see the. hear me.

out of freedom is only going to get that even with a lot of what they are. but away from jubilant crowds we meet who are not so pleased after a man leaves in tripoli is slim district historically pro khadafi where the rebels arrived his sister was badly injured she's still in hospital in tunisia other one doesn't want to show his face on camera and seized on a hidden location for the interview he says revolution has brought much fear in its wake. there is no peace there is no safety in the city we don't want our children outside when it's dark we are afraid we always wait for something bad when gadhafi was here at least we didn't have to sleep a wink. abdulrahman says he also wanted change and a brighter future for his country but not base way. people are dying on both sides of the cities destroyed no one cares do you seriously think it would be too easy

for the better don't want you so just. what you wanted and what is around is a scene of widespread destruction and social chaos and badly damaged buildings made by the rising stink of garbage and decomposing bodies junctures roam the streets barely old enough to understand that what they carry our weapons not toys many shops schools and hospitals are closed while the city is them are trees growing bigger and bigger. shortly after triple if i'm going to rebel hands in national transitional council it is new authority claimed it was moving here from benghazi two weeks have passed and there is still no sign of the border being raced towards the city functioning by itself and treading a fine line between freedom and allocate. national r t

three probably leave here. the british government ordered an investigation into allegations the country secret services extradited terror suspects to libya where they were allegedly tortured the claim surfaced after human rights groups found documents in tripoli detailing the regime's toys with m i six and the cia a former british intelligence officer national thinks the results of the investigation will be brushed under the carpet. when david cameron calls for an inquiry into these allegations he's being incredibly disingenuous under the u.k. law at the inquiries act two thousand and five an inquiry this is established including this in this torture inquiry headed up i suppose he gets it and it's circumscribed by the very organizations that are being investigated in this case my five and i six so it's going to be toothless plus of course the other consideration with this is that subpoena gibson himself is heading up this inquiry was actually an intelligence services commissioner for five years prior to taking on this role

so he's been cozying up to the intelligence services in the u.k. for five years i doubt he's going to unearth anything deliberately perhaps and you probably won't shine a bright light on the dark corner should we say he'll be for instance intelligence agencies they will have lost all credibility they have double deals in libya for decades now and really their chickens are coming home to roost and i can't see how any government that comes into power in libya will trust whatever am i six or the british government now says. talking to me a little earlier this week now let's have a quick look at some news making headlines around the world today in our world update swedish police have arrested four people in the city of gothenburg on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack hundreds of people were evacuated from the city's center following the arrest whoever the u. sweeter security police decided not to raise the terror alert level which has been at the elevated mark since november which was not yet released any further information regarding the suspected plot. and tanzania region of zanzibar

has begun three days of mourning for the victims of a ferry disaster that claimed as many as two hundred forty lives many more still missing after losing power in rough seas the ship began taking on water eventually capsizing survivors say it was overloaded with both prague and passengers many of whom were children meanwhile rescue teams are resumed search but hopes of finding more survivors are fading as the country's worst maritime disaster in fifteen years . twenty eight minutes past the hour here in moscow i'll be back with a recap of our top stories for in just a couple of minutes stay with us life it. is

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nine thirty on sunday night here in the russian capital this is r t with weekly top stories now this hour america said decades since the tragedy of nine eleven which unites the nation brought about two of the bloodiest wars of the twenty first century and we bring the pictures of the ceremony taking place there at ground zero in you will. also visit russia in the sports world say goodbye to the country's top national ice hockey team wiped out in a plane crash in the blink of an eye. bosco course on the international community

not to take sides in syria's internal violence as president did it says negotiation is the only way to peace in the arab league announces it's reached an agreement with damascus on a long promised reforms. i'll be back with more in less than thirty minutes from now let me tell me explore what's being done to clean up the world's oceans a deadly plastic waste that's the first part of our special report next here on alt . because the soup of the nor the super good there's the soup. project always know

if you come through the. door so sharply you know the river. just has to be there is the the first place to call them in the stomach of the if you translate it to you in body size this will be the air for a change in the stomach. so in the past five minutes here in the concentrate i took a little walk around to see how many styrofoam cups i can pick up and five minutes what you see here is what six people would consume in one week of drinking coffee

every day so many people think that their individual actions don't really have an impact but if you multiply this by the millions and millions of people that drink coffee in los angeles alone you can start to understand how we see something like this in every single river every single creek everest single stream and los angeles behind me is continent creek it's one of the many streams that drains the los angeles area and this stream will go into the los angeles river and then out to the pacific ocean the purpose of this boat is to to get attention and get politicians get their schoolteachers get the public to look at us and listen to our story. listening to marcus and emma stories like being immersed in the planet seas and taking the time to look. in the mediterranean alone there are three million tons of garbage drifting around

and eighty percent of it is plastic. we don't think about it but the sea bed wasn't always covered with these often on identifiable christian objects. we're really the third generation to make massive use of plastics. all this is the result of sixty years of consumption. we've led plastic colonize the sea. on the surface. a few meters down. and at the depths of one thousand meters. with all of this material will be down here for ages especially where it's really deep there's much less oxygen and no light whatsoever i mean those are factors which help break down the plastic sort of stuff will be around for

a few hundred years have you see a kind of loser dreams when you go really deep for the one thousand meters for instance mr you imagine something mysterious and completely different also when you get down there and you see piles of plastic and rubbish it's just awful that was that was just so much a thing and i was. the ocean's being stuffed with plastic. with force feeding them. but there's something we haven't thought. the count digested. the nets are full of there's nothing miraculous about the catch. this material has revolutionized on lives today because of the price. what happens to plastic once it's in the ocean is really a note as we've always been told doesn't really have no effects on animals or

humans. is one of the thinking hands of a professional cynic. nonce you are in and you realize all the benefits that this listing will tell you is bringing into the society to the quality of life you are convinced that prestigious fantastic and then you want to explain that to everybody to prove that this product is not dangerous at all as is providing quite a lot of marvelous things if lest it would not be existing the resources for the planet you would this deal everything that planet we live on would be good to be exhausted it's thanks to the plastic which has been invented in this really speaking in the fifties we have been able to produce so much material so much products that we use every day.

but you just came back from a drive out in the desert one of the aircraft boneyard or picked up a cessna for a few hundred bucks now it's missing the wings is missing the engine everything else except for the fuselage this is ideal because it's lightweight it has the doors intact the windows are intact waterproof it will make it waterproof. marcus erikson is a dedicated militant against plastic for fifty years he's been counseling along america's rivets he's seen the pollution growth and it keeps growing. one day marcus has a dream so the whole world could care about the problem he hopes to mobilize the

planet going so you can see who's in an old airplane cabin sitting on fifteen thousand plastic bottles. with the energy of someone who's determined to change the world he's setting out from two thousand five hundred mile trip on the open ocean. so this is. over a thousand people schoolkids across the country of chicago have given us messages about the ocean and about plastics which we're going to take across the ocean and bring back and share with policymakers and try to get something done about this passage issue. that's right after the bottle. this is the marine mammal sometimes one of the biggest organizations of its time.

for thirty five years one thousand volunteers have constantly surveyed the beaches and weaves an entire kind of from new coast to help undernourished all sick and. over the years they've had to learn to deal with new kinds of. there definitely are raising animals admitted to our facility with in time. we have. this in mind that was attached africa came out of an elephant seal stomach we have a big black bear and that was wrapped around the sea lions and now we have. monaco meant by that was wrapped around his heel i am back as well inside of it now and then we had a law strap and string that was found wrapped around a bottle of a first deal that actually endangered species so it's very much of

a concern. last night stem stop fishing. there have been traces of strangulation in the whole of the species of seals and sea lions. eighty species of whales have suffered incidents with plastic. plastic can mean kill. and also suffocate. although the volunteers of the marine mammal center manage to save dozens of animals every year the vast majority are inaccessible. but we can see that it's very deep the biggest problem with something like this is this animal they are female she's going to grow some more and that is hangman won't and after awhile it

could end up strangling her or stop her from being able to eat for a lot of farms plastic items found in the sea it come from what we throw away and. here is some of the first collateral victims three hundred marine species of victims of plastic. twenty years ago younger i'm from the don't see blood specialist started an experiment on foreman's a common species in northern europe. he wanted to know what the h. . a completely straightforward investigation. but its results were a big surprise i looked at homer simplistic more or less accidents because in the early one nine hundred eighty s. i found more or less states and at that time staff i didn't know it all in in the

stomachs which later proved to be invested in place that's the first time i realized it was placed it in a bit of stomach it was. a mason and. john has a little to his european colleagues. his determines knew how many films are affected. is received and analysed three thousand birds found beached along the coastline of eight countries there's a piece of firm niland roy it is green with this pieces of plastic still with and dirty ninety five percent of these birds flying dustin's there's all sorts of fragments of broken a place that i. can hear this. at least seven industrial plastic granules ok what i fear is the f. rich plastic content of a full moon in the certain north sea so if you translate it to humans eyes. this is

what be there for each in the stomach and so in that case there is no need for this case where there is a little bit for you we agree that this is not elsie. according to the united nations plastic is no part of the diamond of half the species of sea but it's. thanks to the use of plastics we protect the planet and we protect the climate evolution as well if you would have to replace the present by getting back on them until you will then you would have to multiply the the weight of the baby as you buy for the price of the packaging by two and the amount of waste by one point six . fifteen plastic. marcus and his friend joe the sailing need pacific sitting on thousands of slightly leaky bottles.

marcus's plan has already worked as exploit is being followed by millions of people on the internet. it could affect some policy. it's a policy to help curb the exploitation of. a synthetic chemicals that we had used to our advantage short term advantage but now we're finding out just polluting our world and really i can feel that it's going to impact the next generation my kids would feel it so i feel like. obligated to do something it's an obligation knowing something's wrong you can't do nothing otherwise you're out of your accomplice. in the one hundred twenty is an english peer at an outlandish but particularly far

sighted idea. and fitted a number of ships which regularly followed the same north european shipping lanes with the strange device. it was a record of trips i've been telling them every month ever since. these are time machines to be kept as treasures. and recorders contain cassettes with which you can trace the evolution of plankton in the english channel and north atlantic. one hundred seventy thousand samples of plankton but has been trapped over five million miles

a spider's web woven over almost one hundred years. these devices have provided some unexpected and precious scientific proof. to us that all of its catching planktonic organisms maybe it's catching small pieces of plastic at the same time so we went back through historic samples we sampled from the nine hundred sixty s. the one hundred seventy s. the eighty's and ninety's and then compared abundance through time and that's where we we showed that it had increased significantly when you compare the one nine hundred sixty s. and ninety's. this british scientist has proof of the increasing pollution of the channel in the atlantic. in fact plastic never decomposes into the environment it just breaks down into small bits over time so even if we stopped producing plastics tomorrow which is not something that i would advocate because i actually think plastics can bring many benefits to society that even if we did the legacy of the

plastics that we produced there fragmentation would continue for many decades and centuries to come. marcus wants to share the scientific discoveries. all the plastic which has ended up in the sea is still there. three months and several storms later he finally reaches hawaii on his plastic bottle raft it was enough to make him a hero of modern times and struggle to start and get some attention. there's a steady trend of increasing plastic and it's growing exponentially sort of the purpose of this is to get the world where there's been talk about solutions what do

we do about this issue for a. while now because it's busy consciousness raising on the other side of the planet richard thompson is busy collecting scientific evidence of the contamination of the marine have determined by plastics. i was just interested world this is a plastics that are forming by the breakdown of large bases or what is the smallest piece of plastic present on the beach that was the challenger set to two of my graduate students just a little over ten years ago. richard has found fragments of plastic but can be

measured in microns finer than a human. and use for huge quantities on from. all of the pieces that we we extract that look a little bit unusual around about a third we confound the plastic he thought of maybe his findings with the result of a freak event on a particular plymouth beach so he analyzed the sound of ten other british creatures and each it all starts at the same time worldwide. we found these materials every place we've examined and that surprised me the ubiquity the fact that these we know that large items of their very are now covering the ocean surface down in the deep sea there but the fact that they chose worldwide and now contaminated with small fragments of plastic was actually quite

surprising to me i expected that idea as we move to more remote places where perhaps we wouldn't find any plastics at this this microscopic scale but in fact we have. people are thinking that plastics are polluting and it's because they are totally ignoring the an enormous amount of the benefits benefits that you get from the present material like means less consumption if that's true if you have the light light of the calls then automatically the consumption is very slow or one hundred kilo less for a car and zero one free liter per hundred kilometer. captain charles moore is fed up of seeing the oceans used as a dumping ground. he truces do through your plastic not to have to origin. at birth

before becoming a bottle. booster pack plastic comes from petrol then it is delivered to manufacturers in the form of little pellets. or plastic oh. they come out of this. right here. they come out of here is now on the ground and after many years. millions and millions and. they call them moving to teens without having been used through theme these pellets are on their way to the water courses this facility is still releasing millions every time it rains so this is an illegal dump of pellets preproduction plastic pellets this is a bag factory these are polyethylene pellets they float in fresh water these are the pellets from the rail cars that have been washed and blown down to the dry.