from moscow i am marina joshie welcome to the program amnesty international has called in libya's new authorities to prevent human rights abuses and there are allegations of violations committed by both rebels and colonel gadhafi as troops most of the country is now under rebel control with only a few pockets of khadafi loyalist still fighting but some people in the capital say the only fruits of the revolution they're seeing are on certainty and fear as the now reports. after free tripoli just can't stop chanting to celebrate the birth of the new libya . all reminders of a recently overthrown dictatorship are suppressed what used to bring nightmares to some for decades is now a cause for laughter. shed shoe for 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 post 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 and supposedly free libya this man is afraid of being thrown to jail again or even killed. a bug was about gadhafi but you can say about the boat was about to be like of 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 our large bar to the winners this is a reality not hard to believe. know everybody we are happy we are free don't go

there feels good run away this is not true believe me because they are free to war for return back to tripoli you see the same people same people same person i think they are supporting a revolution can bring much hope but what comes after war is often different. those who drove egypt's revolt this year was too on the streets this weekend seven months after toppling president mubarak angry at a lot of trowbridge on the reforms libya's future too is still far from clear the post gadhafi libyan capital has been the scene of euphoria with celebrating the 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 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. expert told r.t. what needs to be done to stop the flow of weapons. old start off by being legally married and legally sold but at some point the guns that cause the problems and being diverted and because of libya the concerns as you 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 called a call card or the marker which would if i was you 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's one of the troubles of the. community where you could have a society where the gun is as if it's vigils respect the rule of law and 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 because main cities for to control probably they will be a temptation on people to keep guns for their own defense then resist temptation to use a gun or something that you shouldn't be used. thank you see the full interview with brian johnson thomas former u.n. expert on the arms trade in the next hour here on our. 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 as

a reduction in the number of people being kept behind bars however one group of people has a vested interest in keeping prisons as far as possible as artie's marina port not found out. america's financial crisis has been something of an unseasonable 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 you know 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 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. r.t. new york. also have for you this hour here in r.t. the extremes of tourism here devils carry being a first hand experience of a post-apocalyptic world seek a way inside the exclusion zone around the turn novel nuclear plant in ukraine.

and this is the site that will. wellcome iran is president and new york next week the billboard in times square accuses iran of being an ally. as mahmoud have many job has for the u.n. general assembly. it's deja vu time for the greek economy once again there is speculation it's close to default thanks to a soaring budget deficit and absence mainlander isn't helping the situation with allies of the german chancellor suggesting greece may need to default and leave the single currency by financial journalist demetri because there's 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 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 and 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 that they're accessing the poor the markets but the e.c.b. isn't there buying italian spanish that so the fact that you have these countries unable 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 that now who is exposed to those french banks and who's exposed the banks that are close to 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 thousand nine hundred. adventurous travelers are waiting to see if they will average be admitted to one of the globe's most surreal tourist sites the dead zone around turned novel nuclear plant in ukraine twenty five years after the worst ever 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 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 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. look. you people have different reasons. some want to see what an apocalypse could look like. someone to feel the history. 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 but it was 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 kilometer nuclear wasteland will remain closed to the public until then with the debate remains very much open. looks your share of ski on c. report you from q. and a mobile in ukraine. for more exclusive stories and video be sure to check out our website r.t. dot com here is what's online right now in the u.k. prime minister david cameron's visit to russia could herald a revamp of relations between the two countries to have tara website for an in-depth analysis. and a russian communication satellites thought to be lost in space as

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question on the dot com. iran's first nuclear power plant is now in stream after being officially launched the russian built facility is the only such station in the entire middle east is currently running a forty percent capacity and won't reach full power until the sam part of russia will continue to provide help and fuel for the plant at iran will stand spent fuel back to russia to ease tension in the west over any iranian enrichment. the u.s. and the e.u. have long been concerned the country is building a nuclear bomb but tehran insists its ambitions are strictly peaceful 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. we have now a decades long standoff between iran and the west. over the iranian

nuclear program this has been very a. 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 in the best way to do that is through economic sanctions economic sanctions and if we 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

while there will be no warm welcome for reigning in president mahmoud ahmadinejad in new york when he visits for the u.n. general assembly a massive billboard in times square accuses iran of allying with al qaida the huge poster was put up by united against nuclear iran group which opposes to run its nuclear plant it also once hotels three fused to accommodate money by many until the 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 apprehensive malka people and provided intelligence on them because remember. islamised 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 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 for till last year as a cause for war but saudi's country refrain from taking action ankara did however

expel the israeli ambassador and cut military and trade ties with a jewish state after it refused to apologize for killing nine turks in the operation and ahead of a trip to egypt turkey's leader warned israel faces growing isolation in the region relations between the jewish state and cairo ours strained to after ryder's ransacked these really embassy. a massive fuel pipeline explosion in kenya has killed at least seventy five people and severely injured over a one hundred the blast created a giant fireball which and golf the 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. in iraq army patrol has found twenty two murdered shia filled rooms 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 and shia pilgrims have claimed hundreds of lives in recent months. france's national electricity provider e.d.f. says an explosion or cool nuclear side of poses no risk of a radioactive leak the 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. while brings us up to date here at r t let's see what's happening in business you lease here with us. hello and a very warm welcome to the business desk good to have your company russia's largest lenders burbank is seeking to diversify its business and buy into a life insurance company the plan to question is life subsidiary of german

insurance major audience though almost all business has been moved to its other russians subsidiary life leontes life still holds all the necessary licenses making it a very attractive because a target the company says the deal is about to be sealed wells burbank insists a final decision has not yet been taken. and the ruble is trading close to its lowest level against the us dollar for eight months investors are concerned europe's persisting debt crisis could demand for fuel and effectively hinder russia's economic growth the russian currency has lost more than one percent against the greenback in the last twenty four hours one dollar now costs more than thirty roubles despite russia's relatively healthy budget position a list such as the ruble will weaken further as risk appetite round the world remains low. but russia will delay annual gas and power prices increases until next summer prime ministers were put in says that lower energy consumption in

summer time will make the hikes milder than in january the move is seen as an attempt to tame inflation accelerated by regular terrify expired monopolist like gazprom at the start of the here. which brings us to the markets oil is rising for a second day on speculation crude supplies could decrease last week in the u.s. after storms curtailed offshore production granta is trading at just under one hundred thirteen dollars per barrel and light sweet is hovering at around eighty nine dollars. in japan after monday's steep losses the nikkei is finished finished higher holding e.c.b. president's statement that the region has enough weaponry to stop its debt. isis from spreading. was cause for a public holiday on tuesday. and investor sentiment has also slightly improved in russia with the indices tracking the u.s. and asia higher so have a look at some of the individual share moves on the maya six energy majors are among the top. one percent banking stocks are also higher with russia's largest

lenders burbank gaining almost one hundred percent. for the time markets are having a say in russia's privatization russia's state run shipping giants of conflict says it will hold an initial public offering no earlier than the second quarter of the year but 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. looking ahead to the coming sessions michael stein from and create a financial corporation says the local market will be influenced by competitive prices fluctuations given the very late have been 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 think petersburg i will also see second quarter results from austin ergo and of 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 over four months from the all cynical . michael stein for much prettier there with his knowledge as to what we can expect from the coming trading session and the russian post will soon provide consumer loans along with its traditional shipping services the helping hand to launch new services has been offered by the firm express starting from october russian post will provide short term consumer loans ranging from sixty to three hundred dollars the company has a wide network of around forty thousand branches throughout the country and they say this would help the state run company compete with majors like burbank and b

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welcome back here with our team here is a reminder of the top stories and his international calls on all sides in the libyan civil war to prevent humanitarian rights violations some of libyan say they're now being abused by those books bought for their freedom from colonel gadhafi. at a time when the u.s. is tightening its fiscal belt forcing private jails see more revenue from cash cow prisoners they are accused of lobbying for a heavy sentences for convicts. ukraine considers the legality of day trips to the contaminated area around her novel the side of the world's biggest nuclear tragedy tourist visits were banned over allegations they provided unhealthy profits to brain officials. as the headlines here nineteen x. financial government spies are explains why he thinks there is a third world.