graham amnesty international has called on all sides in the be a to prevent human rights abuses and there are allegations of violations committed by both rebels and colonel gadhafi as troops rebels are still fighting pockets of khadafi loyalists but took the capital last month all with nato help but some people in tripoli say so far the fruits of the revolution are uncertainty and fear are reports. you free tripoli just can't stop chanting to celebrate the birth of the new libya. remind us of a recently overthrown dictatorship are suppressed what used to bring nightmares to some for decades is now a cause for. the problem. is curly hair we call him because his hair is so long and he doesn't cut it and they are ugly actually but some are not smiling believe in the past gadhafi freedom is nothing but the mirror

as a crime has been the rest of three times in the last two weeks rebels interrogated him and took his documents the reason the twenty seven year old copilot says is his family's ties with gadhafi his regime we cover his face and change his name and supposedly free libya this man is afraid of being thrown to jail again or even killed you can say about wars about gadhafi but you can say about about wars about and about to be a national icon for what they are talking about democracy this is not democracy a crime says libya didn't get rid of a dictatorship but only fell into another one of the rebels' weapons in a city where the gun has become a common accessory just like a cell phone and where one can only cross the town's numerous checkpoints with an obligatory a large bar to the winners this is a reality not hard to believe. know everybody we are happy we are free them

good that feels good run away this is not true believe me because they are free to all of a good laugh returned back to tripoli you see the same people same people same person nothing they are supporting a revolution can bring much hope that what comes afterwards is often different those who do. egypt's revolt this year who are still on the streets this weekend seven months after toppling president mubarak angry at the life of progress on the reforms libya's future too is still far from clear the post gadhafi libyan capital has been the scene of euphoria with celebrate three gunfire and singing heard here around the clock for more than a fortnight already like all parties however some believe there could be a serious hangover after wards in the form of retribution and uncertainty as to how the future country will be governed river national r.-t.

tripoli libya. meanwhile there's growing concern in libya that arms seized after the fall of gadhafi could fall into the wrong hands brian johnson thomas a former u.n. expert told r.t. what needs to be done to stop the flow of weapons. old start off by being legally married could be sold but at some point the guns that cause the problems and being diverted and the case of libya the concerns as you've noted that a lot of the rebels were until fairly recently also regarded as being in league with al qaida in some cases so that is somewhat as to what they might do with. you know when i was fishing for the day of the market which is always you taking an interest in what happens in libya and once you get support for the revolution of any sort then you turn to the control of some of the individuals within it is one of the troubles is. really where you could have a society where the gun is as if it's vigils respect through to fool the majority

of gun crimes. because people who want to hold an illegal weapon because they don't have any trust in someone else looking after them so unless the libyan transitional national council can very quickly establish a trust the impartial independent police force and then because main cities particularly there will be a temptation on people to keep guns for their own defense and the resist temptation to use a gun for something that you shouldn't be used. and you can see the full interview with brian johnson thomas former u.n. expert on the arm straight to the next hour here on. also how for you this hour the extremes of. raving at first hand experience of the. world seek a way inside the exclusion zone around the novel nuclear plant in ukraine. and

this is the site that will welcome iran xp. resident and new york next week a billboard in times square uses ron to be an ally of. john has for the u.n. general assembly. it's deja vu time for the greek economy once again and there's speculation it's close to the fall thanks to a soaring budget deficit and athens mainlander isn't helping the situation with allies of the german chancellor suggesting greece may need to default and leave the single currency but financial journalist demand. there's no mechanism to exit the euro and there are different ways that. the european central bank and the e.u. could go about dealing with a default of greece or an exit of greece portugal or some of the peripheral countries they could break the euro into two different types of euro put the fact that no one is willing to talk about that option openly and kind of admit that that's where we are with an unsustainable debt like greece has and now the fact

that the country is the size of italy which is no longer really able to access the markets the way they're accessing it for the markets but the e.c.b. isn't there buying in spanish that so the fact that you have these countries on able to issue debt paper on their own is is frightening for the european union for the eurozone there is no real exit mechanism from the euro if you're part of the v.m. you you're part of it supposedly for life ok and so we saw how chaotic it was when argentina. default on its debt and exited the dollar peg in the case of greece it's not even a peg they've given up their currency their french banks that are that are potentially on the hook with a lot of greek debt exposed to those french banks that whose exposed the banks that are closed the french banks a lot of the banks prefer an environment like they've had now which is we can lever up as much as we want doesn't matter and if we lose we just get bailed out there they have structurally adjusted their business model and their profit making mechanism to this new environment which has been perpetual bailouts that we've seen

since one nine hundred eighty. america needs all the cash it can get out of the moment one idea being mooted to save billions of dollars a year is a reduction in the number of people being kept behind bars however one worth of people has a vested interest in keeping prisons as full as possible these marine import nine found out. america's financial crisis has been something of an unsafe monster swallowing up millions of jobs homes and businesses throughout the nation yet amid this ongoing economic armageddon one industry has remained recession proof . private prisons. with more than two point three million people behind bars the united states trumps china russia and the rest of the world in both the number and percentage of people doing time where it falls short though is being capable of containing such a large population it's a political dilemma turned cash cow for dozens of corporations creaming profits off

punishment private prisons make money off of incarceration the more people they lock up the longer they keep them the more money they make so they have the same perverse incentive to expand our justice system and increase our number of people or our number of citizens who are behind bars because it increases their profit margin. the profitability of private jails depends on the prison population continuing to go up the rate of incarceration in the us has quadrupled since the eighty's when america's war on drugs are short in the three strikes policy which ties judges to mandatory minimum sentencing even for nonviolent offenders since the late eighty's and into the ninety's and now today we see a turn away from that rehabilitative model so across the country prison programming is cut rehabilitation is being cut there's less opportunities for education to gain work skills and instead there's just this drive towards isolation towards

punishment private prison companies are paid between forty five and one hundred thirty dollars a day per detainee rates for juveniles women and immigrants could be higher while public prisons are accountable to the public private ones answer only to shareholders and are not subject to external scrutiny that means many private contractors face few consequences for the poor or even inhumane treatment of detainees and we just see you know more and more isolation sensory deprivation and prisoners who literally never interact with human beings when guards would come. into the seventy there would be a sign out front with their stock price to let them know how the company was doing corrections corporation of america and geo group are the two largest private prison companies which combined revenues of two point nine billion dollars last year but critics say they've been using that financial clout to line their own pockets even

further encouraging politicians to keep going with the heavy handed sentencing program by launching an influential lobby campaign in the corridors of power lobbying and in order to influence public officials only a small part of the private prison industry effort to achieve policy change others include campaign donations so the companies make hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations to politicians nationwide both on the federal and state levels with most states and the federal government currently operating under record deficits and budget cuts private prison companies are pitching their facilities as lower cost alternatives and while the most americans continue struggling during this economic downturn mass incarceration may grow even more profitable during a port niamh r.t. new york. adventurous travelers are waiting to see if they will ever be admitted to

one of the globe's most surreal tourist signs the dad zone around her novel nuclear plant in ukraine twenty five years after the worst avar atomic disaster trips to the area have been halted over allegations they are illegal. has the details. these cars were once heavily affected by nuclear radiation now they radiate for a different reason or have an exhibition in key of dedicated to the clear rubble of the nine hundred eighty six chernobyl fallout over the years the chernobyl museum in ukraine's capital kiev has become one of the top tourist attractions especially in april this year when the world marked the twenty fifth anniversary of the disaster but for those craving for the firsthand post-apocalyptic experience looking at the exhibition here has not been enough. and there is an adventurous alternative the contaminated zone around should have no bullets or what it was decades tourists have been floor can hear more than ten thousand of them each year

that's why forbes magazine named the dead zone one of the world's most exotic tourist destinations. former resident of the ghost town of pretty good has been organizing these tours for several years he told us that visitors are always fascinated by what they see all the all their motivations for making the trip have always varied. fuck. you people have different reasons for someone to see what an apocalypse could look like kind of you so moment to feel the history. it's their childhood like the atmosphere of the soviet union has been preserved but for me it's more important not why they come here i mean it's what effect it has on them. but since june that this radioactive tourism has been suspended the prosecutor general's office conducted checks and ruled that the emergencies ministry had broken the law with these trips as well as

making and on healthy profit every tourist to the zone has been paying around one hundred u.s. dollars to do so equating to a multi-million dollar revenue every year when. we were to the ministry to inform the government of every dollar earned by the strips and we know that a lot of money and money is all we have no idea. why not put the money into the budget and use it to solve the problems but. the ministry is defined it says it stuck by the law it claims these troops are a vital way of educating the world on how to avoid such disasters and says they could help fund new industrial projects on contaminated land that your nobles own will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes. but the thirty kilometer area has acceptable levels of radiation both because of the fallout of nuclear particles and decontamination procedures that's why we can

use these launch on occupied spaces to build solar and wind power stations which as we can even grew biofuel here comes the emergencies ministry has now filed a lawsuit in a bid to resume tours to the contaminated zone and the court is expected to start hearings in mid september ukraine's thirty kilometers a nuclear wasteland will remain closed to the public until then. but the debate remains very much open. alexy were shot ski odyssey reporting from q. in ukraine. for more exclusive stories and video be sure to check out our website r.t. dot com and here's what's in line for you right now the u.k. prime minister david cameron's visit to russia the herald a revamp of relations between the two countries has our own website for an in-depth analysis. and a russian communication satellite thought to be lost in space and scum online after three weeks of radio silence more authority dot com plus check out all of our best

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question on the dot com. iran's first nuclear power plant is now on stream after being officially launched the russian built facility is the only such station in the entire middle east who share is currently running at forty percent capacity and won't reach full power until december russia will continue to provide help and fuel for the plant and iran will send span fuel back to russia to ease tension in the west over any uranium enrichment program the us sound the e.u. have long been concerned the country is building a nuclear bomb but to iran insists its invasions are strictly peaceful ifa television researcher at the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london believes iran has the right to peaceful nuclear energy just like any other developed nation but we have now a decades long standoff between iran and the west. over the iranian nuclear program this has been very hyped of. the nuclear issue for political

reasons in order to be able to garner support to put pressure on iran if you cannot control or influence a country you might go for isolation and weakening of the country and the best way to do that is through economic sanctions canonic sanctions if we just listen to the most authoritative source when it comes to analyzing the iranian nuclear program which is the international atomic energy agency and if we read their reports we see that there is no evidence for any weaponization and also this is. numerously and on numerous occasions the u.s. intelligence services and very recently so as well so the world has to face that iran as other developed countries has a nuclear program which is peaceful according. to all the evidence that we have. well there will be no warm welcome for rainy and president mahmoud of money john

a new york when he visits for the u.n. general assembly a massive billboard in times square accuses iran of allying with al qaida a huge poster was put out by the united against nuclear iran group which opposes tehran's nuclear plans and also wants hotels to refuse to accommodate how many job ivan eland attended institute think tank told r.t. that attacking iran risks increasing its desire for nuclear weapons if you remember after all nine eleven iran helped the united states apprehend some elka people and provided intelligence on them because remember iran. islamic government is different than the al qaeda which is sunni and the iranian government is shia and the. is hostile to the billboard furler demonizes iran so i think the problem with demonization as we've seen in the case of saddam hussein and moammar qaddafi is that the united states then seems to take out those leaders after

a while and if you've got a republican administration in who beat obama next year in the elections by two thousand and thirteen we could hear the drumbeat for attacking iran which of course i think would be disastrous you have to put yourself in their shoes they do have legitimate security fears but i think you have to take them into account and you have to do everything that you can not to demonize them because that in turn creates pressures for attacking them later on this coercive approach merely makes iran want to have weapons more run sees that iraq and libya who gave up their nuclear weapons programs they got invaded or attacked. now let's take a look at some other stories from around the world turkey's prime minister has described israel's raid on a gaza bound till last year as a cause for war but said he's country refrain from taking action did however expel

israeli diplomats and cut military and trade ties with the jewish state after it was used to college eyes for killing nine turks in the operation and ahead of a trip to egypt turkey's leader a war in israel it faces growing isolation in the region relations between the jewish state and cairo are strained to after ryder's ransacked the israeli embassy . a massive fuel pipeline explosion in khania has killed at least seventy five people and severely injured over one hundred the blasts created a giant fireball which in the gulf the heavily populated slum nearby the kenyan red cross assistance search and rescue operations as scores of severely burned victims flooded hospitals in nairobi the explosion was most likely caused by attempts to siphon fuel from the pipeline. and iraqi army patrol has found twenty two murdered shia pilgrims in the country's western province the victims were headed to a shrine in syria when their bus was stopped by armed gunmen they were taken to

a remote desert area and executed attacks on shia pilgrims have claimed hundreds of lives in recent months. france's national electricity provider e.d.f. says an explosion at the maher coal nuclear site poses no risk of radioactive leak a blast described as an industrial accident not a nuclear one killed one person and injured four others it's thought to have been caused by a fire in the science radioactive waste storage facility. well time now for a business of date with you. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program russia's largest lenders burbank is seeking to diversify its business and buy into a life insurance company the plan to christian is alliance life a subsidiary of german insurance major airlines but almost all business has been moved to its other the russian subsidiary of ross no life alliance live still holds

all the necessary licenses making it a very attractive physician target the company says the deal is about to be sealed wiles' burbank insists the final decision has not yet been taken. while the rebels trading close to its lowest level against the dollar for eight months investors are concerned europe's the system debt crisis could hit demand for fuel and affectively into russia's economic growth the russian currency has lost more than one percent against the current back in the last twenty four hours one dollar now costs more than thirty roubles just by russia's relatively healthy budget position and the suggest ruble will weaken further as risk appetite round the world remains low. let's have a look at the markets now well as rising for a second day on speculation current supplies could decrease last week in the u.s. just storms off shore production brant is trading at one hundred twelve dollars a barrel and lights were just hovering at just under eight hundred nine dollars. in

japan after monday's steep losses the nikkei is climbing following e.c.b. present statement that the region has enough weaponry to stop its debt crisis from spreading hong kong's hang seng is closed for a public holiday on tuesday and just an hour ahead of the opening bell here in moscow and on monday both the artist and the my six closed the session deeply in the red extending their minds towards losses. looking ahead to the coming sessions michael stein from creative financial corp says the local market will be influenced by commodity prices fluctuations. given the very light schedule in the west and the fact that investors are very much focused on what's happening outside russia many investors will pay close attention to commodity prices in general and the oil price in specific with a lot of people concerned that oil could retreat from the current level of one hundred ten dollars a barrel to something closer to one hundred dollars

a barrel on the domestic front investors we were watching on the corporate side for the second quarter financial results from bank of st petersburg i will also see second quarter results mustn't ever go and interest will be the normal cynical board meeting to potentially approve a buyback of seven point six percent of the company's shares in a move which would provide a fair amount of buying support and potential oprah formants from the world cynical . michael stipe from his courage with his now this is the what we can expect from the coming trading session and that wraps up the business bulletin for all stores head to a website or two dot com slash business. well

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welcome back you're watching r.t. live from moscow a reminder of the top stories annecy international calls on all sides only in civil war to prevent human rights violations well short lived jubilation after the fall of gadhafi and some libyans say there are now being abused by those who fought for their freedom. at a time when the u.s. is tightening its fiscal belt forcing private jail seek more revenue from cash cow prisoners and they are accused of lobbying to expand the american justice system pancrease the number of citizens behind bars. ukraine considers the legality of day trips to the contaminated area around sure novel the side of the world's biggest nuclear tragedy tourist visits were banned over allegations they provided unhealthy profits and ukrainian officials.