rebels and colonel gadhafi stroup most of the country is now under rebel control with only a few pockets of could off you loyalists still fighting but some people in the capital say the only fruits of the revolution they're seeing are uncertainty and fear as artie's marie finished now reports. few free tripoli just can't stop chanting to celebrate the birth of the new leave. all reminders of a recently overthrown dictatorship are suppressed what used to bring nightmares to some for decades is now a cause for. the problems out of. his curly hair we call him because his hair is so long and he doesn't cut it it's ugly actually but someone else smiling believe in the past gadhafi freedom is nothing but the mirage 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 in supposedly free libya this man is afraid of being thrown to jail again or even killed you can say about war it's about gadhafi what you can say about a bad war is about and about could 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 have a good laugh or turn back to tripoli you see the same people same people same person and feel they are supporting a revolution can bring much hope that what comes afterwards is often different those who. drove egypt's revolt these here who are still on the streets this weekend seven months of talk in president mubarak angry at the likes of progress on the reforms libya's future two 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 written off r.t. tripoli libya. meanwhile there is 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. experts told r.t. that what needs to be done to stop the flow of weapons. old start off by being legally married only 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 well know a lot of the rebels were until fairly recently also regarded as being in the with al qaida in some cases so there are some ways to what they might do with that a certain you know organization for their call card or the market which is always taking an interest in what happens in libya and once you get support for the revolution of any sort then you tend to boost control of some of the individuals within it is one of the troubles is the. beauty where you could have a society where the gun is as if it's vigils respect the rule of law the majority of gun crimes are for the most 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 trusted impartial independent police force and that because main cities for to control they will be a temptation on people to keep guns for their own defense or not then 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 arms trade it later this hour here on our team. u.s. congress is considering president obama's four hundred forty seven billion dollars jobs bill to help america's ailing economy the country is looking at all possible means to raise the cash it needs one idea being mooted to save money is a reduction in the number of people being kept behind bars however one group of people has a vested interest in keeping prisons as full as possible as artie's of port 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 rehabilitated 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 more and more isolation sensory deprivation and prisoners who literally never interact with human beings when guards would come. into the facility 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 in an 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 poor nial r.t. new york. still i have for this hour here in our extremes of tourism daredevils craving a first hand experience of a post apocalyptic world seek a way inside the exclusion zone around the church novel nuclear plant in ukraine. this is the side that will welcome iran's president in new york next week a billboard in times square accuses iran of being an ally of al qaida as mahmoud

ahmadinejad heads for the u.n. general assembly. his days of time for the greek economy once again there is speculation it's close to default 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 a financial journalist a man three covina says there is no mechanism to exit the euro. there are different ways that. the european central bank and the e.u. could go about dealing with a default in greece or an exit of greece portugal or some of the peripheral countries they could break the euro into two different types of euro but 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 you have a country the size of italy which is no longer really able to access the markets the way that they're accessing the poor the markets but the e.c.b.

is in their buying italian spanish debt so the fact that you have these countries on able to issue debt paper on their own 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 now who's exposed to those french banks and who's 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. adventurous travelers are waiting to see if they will ever be admitted to one of the globe's most serial tourist sites the dad zone

around turn our nuclear plant in the ukraine twenty five years after the worst ever atomic disaster of trips to the area have been halted over allegations they are illegal. he has the details. these cars were once heavily affected by nuclear radiation now they radiate for a different reason part of an exhibition in key of dedicated to the clear up 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 a noble itself over the past 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. alexander a former resident of the goes down of has been organizing these tours for several years he told us that visitors are always fascinated by what they see although all their motivations for making the trip have always varied. fuck. you people have different reasons. some want to see what an apocalypse could look like. someone to feel the history. which for some 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 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 another 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. we urge the ministry to inform the government of every dollar earned by these trips we know that a lot of money has been made but we have no idea in whose pockets it ended up why not put the money into the budget and use it to solve the problems. that 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 the chernobyl zone will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes. almost half of 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 large unoccupied spaces to build solar and wind power stations

we can even grew biofuel here. the emergencies ministry has now filed a lawsuit in a bid to resume tours through 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 with the debate remains very much open. looks you are so ski on c. reporting from q. and should know both ukraine. well for more exclusive stories and video be sure to check out archie dot com and here's what's on the line for you right now. in a prime minister david cameron's visit to russia could herald a revamp of relations between the two countries had to our website or in-depth analysis. and our russian communications satellite thought to be a lost in space has come online after three weeks of radio silence and more anarchy

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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 bush air is currently running a 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 spent fuel back to russia to ease tension in the west over any iranian enrichment program the u.s. and the e.u. have long been concerned the country is building a nuclear bomb but tehran insists its and issues are strictly peaceful in asia researcher at the school of oriental and african studies at the university of london believes iran has the right 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 by 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 reining in president mahmoud ahmadinejad any york when he visits for the u.n.

general assembly a massive billboard in times square accuses iran of allying with kind of the huge poster was put up by the united nuclear iran group which opposes tehran's nuclear plans and also once hotels refused to accommodate john and i many lines of the independent think tank told r.t. that attacking iran risks increasing its desire for nuclear weapons. if you remember after 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 and 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 the 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 of the 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 saudi's country refrain from taking action did however expel the rilya massacre and cut military and trade ties with the jewish state after it

refused to apologize for killing nine turks in the operation and i have a trip to egypt turkey as leader of war and israel it faces a growing isolation in the region relations between the jewish state and cairo are strained to after rioters 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 blast created a giant fireball which and goals to heavily populated slum nearby the kenyan red cross assisted in 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. iraqi army patrol has found twenty two murdered shia pilgrims in the country's western province the victims were had to 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 the tricity provider e.d.f. says an explosion of more coal nuclear site poses no risk of radioactive leak the blast described as an industrial accidents not a nuclear one killed one person and injured four others it's thought to have been caused by a fire in the sides radioactive waste storage facility. all right we're up to date now let's see what's happening in the world of business you lisa. hello and a very warm welcome to our business update russia's largest lenders burbank is seeking to diversify its business and buy into a life insurance company the plan is alliance life of sitter of german insurance major alliance though almost all businesses has been moved to its all the russian

subsidiary rosser life alliance life that still holds all the necessary licenses breaking at a very attractive a position target the company says the deal is about to be sealed of wells burbank insists the final decision has not yet been taken. while the rebel is trading close to its lowest level against the dollar for eight months investors are concerned europe's persisting debt crisis could hit demand for fuel and effectively hinder russia's economic growth russian currency has lost more than one percent against the greenback in the last twenty four hours one dollar now costs more than thirty two roubles despite russia's relatively healthy budget position analysts suggest the ruble will weaken further as risk appetite round the world remains low. the news russia will delay annual gas and power prices in courses until next summer prime minister to move putin's says that lower energy consumption in summertime will make the hikes milder than in january the move is seen as an attempt to tame

inflation accelerated by regular tariff hikes by a monopolist like gazprom at the start of the year. let's have a look at the markets now world is rising for a second day on speculation current supplies could decrease last week and you ass off to storms hurdles up short production grants trading at one hundred and twelve dollars per barrel and light sweet is hovering at just under eighty nine dollars a barrel. in japan after monday's steep losses the nikkei is climbing following e.c.v. president statement that the region has enough weaponry to stop its debt crisis from. spreading hong kong saying this close for a public holiday on tuesday. and let's have a look at the russian markets they have just opened they are testing the minus six are growing after yesterday's slump the r.t.s. and the my six are getting our old one percent with the energy majors climbing up on high oil prices or time markets having a say in russia surprises ation drive russia's state run shipping giant soft flute

says it will hold an i.p.o. no earlier than the second quarter or the next year the government plans to raise between seven hundred fifty million and one point two billion dollars by floating a twenty five percent stake in the company. as usual looking ahead to the coming session michael stein from its creative financial corp says the local market will be influenced by commodity prices fluctuations. given the very light events scheduled 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 it will 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 from us never 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 will provide a fair amount of buying support and potential open formats for normal cynical that wraps up the business bulletin for more stories you can log on to our website archie dot com slash business or join me for another business update in less than one last time.

when one deals with water it has to realize that this tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage. should go by aerial bombs by napalm. coming from the city whether it's on a sonic boom say tractor beam mammals or it's the burning oil fields here in iraq or it's destroyed it's in the pacific for ramming purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that there shall be taken in the war to protect the involved against widespread long term and severe damage the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions of protocol one has taken exception to that.

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me. and act g.'s. needed. but now she. since this is my film i get the last word this financial crisis will not be turned off like a light switch. that. would be soon much brighter than if you newly bought song from phones to oppression in some. news for instance on t.v. don't come. to.

america watching r t these are the top stories amnesty international calls on all sides only in civil war to prevent human rights violations was short lived jubilation after the fall of gadhafi so many in say they're now being abused by those who fought for their freedom. at a time when the u.s. is tightening its fiscal belt flourishing private jail see more revenue from a cash cow for his nerves the argues of lobbying to expand the american justice system can increase the number of citizens behind bars and. ukraine considers the legality of day trips to the contaminated area around her novel side of the world's biggest nuclear tragedy tourist visits were banned over allegations they provided a healthy profits to training officials.