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 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 where if an option in our reports. khadafi tripoli just can't stop chanting to celebrate the birth of you. all remind us of a recently overthrown dictatorship are suppressed what used to bring nightmares to some for decades is now a cause for loft. shift shoes for his curly hair we call him because his hair is so long and he doesn't cut it it's ugly actually but some are not smiling believe in the post gadhafi freedom is nothing but a 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 in 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 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 of get better turn back to tripoli you see the same people same people same personality they are supporting a revolution can bring much hope that what comes afterwards 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 the lack of trade on the reforms 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. regional should ought to 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. 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 the case of libya the concerns as you know that a lot of the rebels were until fairly recently also regarded as being in the with al qaida in some cases so that is somewhat as to what they might do with that a certain you know what i was fishing for they call character the market which would obviously take an interest in what happens in libya and once you get support for the revolution of any sort then you tend to the control of some of the individuals within it one of the troubles is the. view where you could have a society where the gun is as if you will respect the rule of law rule and majority of gun crimes tougher than most because people who want to hold an illegal weapon

because they don't have any trust in someone else looking after them so and that's the libyan transitional national council can very quickly establish a trusted impartial independent police force and then because main cities particularly for me they will be a temptation on people to keep guns for their own defense not them resist temptation to use a gun for something which you shouldn't be used. and you can see the full interview with brian johnson thomas former u.n. expert on the arms trade later this hour here on our. u.s. congress is considering president obama's four hundred forty seven billion dollar jobs bill to help america's ailing economy the country is looking at all possible means to raise the cash it needs want to 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 us full as possible. 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 and 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 continues 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 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 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. and so i have for you this hour here in our streams of tourism daredevils craving firsthand experience of a post-apocalyptic world seek a way inside the exclusion zone around the true novel nuclear plant ukraine.

this is the site 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. it's still time for as a greek economy with more speculation it's close to default the greek finance minister is set for talks with his german counterpart after some officials in berlin suggested athens could be forced out of the single currency and financial analyst added harrison says any default carried the real risk of contagion. i think what's going to happen is the euros are going to say look this isn't working we realize that there's no way they're going to be able to repay and do the austerity we're going to have to take some haircuts that is we have to right the debt default and then we're going to have some sort of program to deal with that in an orderly and structured there's going to be losses and we know that those losses are going to mean that when we capitalize bag both banks in the lead like germany

and france but also the greek banks themselves you know there might be a flat type of attitude meaning that you know if we cap was your bags that means you'll probably have to flog some of them off and sell them to foreigners things about nature there's always going to be some recrimination and tension but at the end of the day once these debts that are unsustainable are written i think that that's a positive if greece defaults then everyone says ok doug says the faulty luckily we got out of the way greece the other a special case. good. prosy or they could. default and what about ireland what about portugal what about speed a little they look like greece maybe they'll default to. get out of those countries and then you know the same sort of scenario there that just played out in greece. adventurous travelers are waiting to see if they will

ever be admitted to one of the globe's most surreal tourist sites the dead zone around turn album nuclear plant in ukraine twenty five years after the worst ever a time disaster trips to the area have been hold it over allegations the are illegal. has the details. these cars were once heavily affected by nuclear radiation now the radiate for a different reason part of an exhibition in kiev dedicated to the clear up of the one thousand nine hundred eighty six chernobyl fallout over the years the chernobyl . z.m. 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 to the contaminated zone around sure the noble itself 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. alexander a 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 although all their motivations for making the trip have always varied. yes people have different reasons. to see what an apocalypse like you to feel the history of. their childhood like the atmosphere of each union has been preserved but for me it's more important why they come here which was effect. 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 healthy profit every tourist of the zone has been paying around one hundred u.s. dollars to do so equating to a multi-million dollar revenue every year. the ministry to inform the government of every dollar earned by the strip we know that a lot of money but 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 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 here in september ukraine's thirty kilometers a nuclear wasteland will remain closed to the public until then but the debate

remains very much open. reporting from kill you. in ukraine. for more exclusive stories and sure to check out our website here's what's on the line right now. it's a prime minister david cameron's visit to russia kid heralding every fan of relations between the two countries had. more in depth the. alice's. band a russian communications satellite thought to be lost in space it's come online after very weeks of radio silence war at r.t. dot com plus check out all our best reviews on our you tube channel. is.

the official. called touch from the top story. one. video on demand. an omission st now in the palm of your. question. iran's first nuclear power plant is now in stream after being officially launched the russian built facilities the only such station in the entire middle east will share is currently running at forty percent capacity and won't reach full power until the samberg russia will continue to provide help and fuel for the plant and iran will say and span fuel back to russia to ease

tension in the west over any uranium enrichment program the u.s. and the e.u. have long been concerned the country is building a nuclear bomb but to iran insists its ambitions are strictly peaceful. god research 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 and 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 actually this has been very

hyped up the nuclear issue for political reasons in order to be able to garner support to put pressure on iran for achieving other political and so i think the nuclear issue in iran is still being hyped but loses much credibility against the evidence that we have 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 iranian 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 a huge poster was put out by the united against nuclear iran group which opposes tehran's nuclear plans it also wants hotels to refuse to accommodate ahmadinejad but i want you and of the independent is 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 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 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. watching us now take a look at some other stories from around the world turkey's prime minister has described israel's raid on a gaza flotilla last year as a cause for war but said his country refrain from taking action ankara did however expel the israeli ambassador and cut military and trade ties with the jewish state after it refused to apologize for killing nine turks in the operation and ahead of a trip to egypt turkey's leader a war and israel faces of 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 kenya has killed at least seventy five people in severely injured over one hundred the blast created a giant fireball which will go the heavily populated slum nearby the kenyan red cross assisted in search and rescue operations are scores of severely burned victims a lot of hospitals in the explosion was most likely caused by attempts to siphon fuel from the pipeline. an iraqi army patrol has found twenty two murdered shia pilgrims in the country's western anbar 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 says an explosion of them are cool nuclear side poses no risk of a 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. all time now take a look what's happening in the world of business hears you. hello and a very warm welcome time for your business update russia's largest lenders burbank is seeking to diversify its business and buy a life insurance company the plan to question is alliance life a subsidiary of german insurance major leontes though almost all its business has been moved to another russian subsidiary alliance life still holds all the necessary licenses making it an attractive target. of the ruble is trading close to its lowest level against the us dollar for eight months investors are concerned europe's the system 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 of the last twenty four hours one dollar now costs more than thirty roubles despite russia's relatively healthy budget position analysts suggest the ruble will weaken further as risk appetite around the world remains a vote. russia will delay annual gas and power price increases until next summer prime minister vladimir putin says that lower energy consumption in summer time will make the hikes milder than and generate the move as soon as an attempt to tame inflation accelerated at the start of the year by regular terror of hikes by monopolies like gas problems. so have a look at the markets oil is rising for a second day on speculation crude supplies could decrease last week in the u.s. soft as storms are tailed off shore production brant is trading at just under one hundred thirteen dollars a barrel and light sweet is hovering at around eighty nine dollars a barrel. britain's footsie and the german dax some modest lead rising on tuesday

snapping at two day losing streak as concerns over europe's debt crisis eased alling reports that china might buy italian government bonds however there is little else to mess around as investors focus on the weakness of the global economy . sentiment seem to dominate the early morning trade on tuesday in russia with the indices tracking of the u.s. and asia higher. than my six point clear across those modest gains with the latter slipping under fifteen hundred points let's have a look at some of the individual share moves on the myself most energy majors a down despite strong with crude gazprom is losing of one point five percent while crossing over is point seven percent in the red meanwhile bank which is supported by a stronger than expected results is net profit quadrupled to one hundred forty eight billion dollars. bull markets are having a say in russia's privatization right russia's state run shipping giant says it

will hold an initial public offering no earlier than the second quarter of 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. looking ahead to the coming trading sessions michael stein creature of financial corp says the local barket will be influenced by commodity price fluctuations given the very light 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 the 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 watching on the corporate side for the second quarter financial results from bank think petersburg 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 open formats from the world's nickel . the russian post will soon provide consumer lowe's along with its traditional shipping services starting from october russian post will provide short term lows ranging from sixty to three hundred dollars the company has a wide network of around forty thousand branches throughout the country analysts say this could help the state run company compete with majors like sperm bank and the t v. finally russia's leading mobile operators mt years is entering the banking business its parent company system which also owns m b r d bank plans to turn the financial firm into a retail player using mt as brant started from october the mobile operator will provide m.t.s. money cards in all its three thousand six hundred stores card holders will also be

able to use all the banking services of the m.b. our deep bank expects the number of cards issued to exceed fifteen million by twenty sixteen. ok that's all we have time for now you're up to date more stories on our website hearty dot com slash business.

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welcome back you're watching r t here is a reminder of the top stories and is the international calls on all sides in the union civil war to brand human rights violations what sort of lived jubilation after the fall of gadhafi some libyans 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 the floor showing private jail seek more revenue from cash cow prisoners the argue the lobbying to expand the american justice system and increase the number of citizens behind bars. 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 problems to ukrainian officials.