a very warm welcome to you this is r.t. live from moscow and misty international has called on libya's north to prevent human rights abuses there are allegations of violations committed by both rebels and colonel gadhafi troops most of the country is now under rebel control with only a few pockets of doubt the loyalists still fighting but some people in the capital say the only fruits of the revolution they're seeing are uncertainty and fear as artist where for national reports. to free tripoli just can't stop chanting to celebrate the birth of 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. shoshu 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 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. a bird was a log of what you can say about a bird was about to 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. you know everybody we are happy we are freedom

good that feels good run away this is not true believe me because they are free to war is good for return back to tripoli you see the same people same people same personality they are supporting a revolution can bring much hope but what comes afterwards is often different. those who drove egypt's revolt this year we're still on the streets this weekend seven months after toppling 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 celebrator gunfire and singing heard here around the clock for more than a fortnight already like all parties however some believe there could be serious hangover after wards in the form of retribution and uncertainty as to how the future country will be governed. regional r.t.

tripoli libya. meanwhile there's growing concern in libya that. the fall of gadhafi could fall into the wrong hands ron johnson thomas a former u.n. expert told r.t. what needs to be done to stop the flow of weapons. all gun start off by being legally married and legally sold but at some point the guns that cause the problems and being diverted in the case of libya the concerns as you know. a lot of the rebels were until fairly recently also regarded as being in the with al-qaeda in some cases so there are some worries to what they might do with there is certainly an organization called a calculator 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 boost control of some of the individuals within if one of the troubles is. the only way you could have

a society where the gun isn't king is if individuals respect the rule of law and majority of gun crimes happen not because people want to hold an illegal weapon but 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 trusting impartial independent police force and there because main cities for to control probably they will be a temptation on people to keep guns for their own defense but not them resist temptation to use a gun for something that you shouldn't be used. where you can see the full interview with brian johnson thomas former u.n. experts on the arms trade in the next hour here on. now 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 in needs one idea being needed 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 dire 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 they 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 product as an 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. still ahead this hour the extremes of tourism a day it's craving time and experience of a post-apocalyptic world seek

a way inside the exclusion zone around the chernobyl nuclear plant in ukraine. and this is the song about welcome to around the president in new york next week a billboard in times square accuses iran of being an ally of all that's not what our heads for the u.n. general assembly. now thousands of people turned out at the funeral of ice hockey player alexandra. novel to see him all with a sea of flowers until he died in a hospital five days after the plane crash that killed almost the entire team last week the twenty six year old died from severe burns to his response trying to family friends and fans gathered at the team's home stadium in you have to pay their last respects the plane carrying the cake. crashed in central russia it was on his way to valerie's for the first game of the season a crew member from the plane is now the only survivor. understood

news that we're just getting in here on the chaos has broken out on the streets of kabul where taliban insurgents are carrying l. coordinated attacks against government buildings rockets have been fired at the u.s. embassy in the afghan capital and other reports say nay take coalition headquarters are also under fire witnesses on the ground report cities being rocked by explosions including one in close proximity to the russian embassy and another near the afghan house and one a police officer has been killed and at least four civilians injured some sources say security forces have shot dead at least two terrorists but hawk helicopters are hovering over the city which has been cordoned off in all directions. now the news turkey's prime minister has described israel's raid on a gaza blamed for taylor last year as a cause for wall but said his country refrain from taking action and grit 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 will be israel it faces growing isolation in the region relations between the jewish state in cairo are strange too after rioters ransacked the israeli embassy. a massive fuel pipeline explosion in kenya has killed at least eighty two people and severely injured over one hundred the blast created a giant fireball which in golf the heavily populated slum nearby the kenyan red cross assisted in search and rescue operations and scores of severely burned victims flooded hospitals in nairobi the exposure was most likely caused by attempts to siphon fuel from the pipeline. terentia rains a widespread flooding in southern pakistan claimed the death of a good two hundred people and displaced hundreds of thousands from their homes

pakistan's financial center ground cheese among the city's power lines with streets abandoned and schools and businesses closed nearly one million homes have been destroyed or damaged since the monsoon season started in early august. it's deja vu time for the greek economy with more speculation it's closer to the fold the greek finance minister is set for talks with his german counterpart after some officials and balin suggested athens could be forced out of the single currency a financial analyst edward harrison says any default carries 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 write down the debt you want to default and then we're going to have some sort of program to deal with that in an orderly and structured world there's going to be losses and

we know that those losses are going to mean that we're recapitalize banks both banks in the lender countries like germany and france but also the greek banks themselves you know there might be a powder flask type of attitude meaning that you know if we cap was your bags that means you probably have to flog some of them off and sell them to foreigners things of that 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 off i think that that's a positive thing if greece defaults and then everyone says ok now greece is the faulty and luckily we got out of the way greece the other a special case. good let's. see all or they could. default and what about ireland what about portugal what about spain and italy they look like greece maybe they'll default too and so let's sell their bonds and then get out of those countries and then you know the same sort of scenario play out there that just played out in greece. venturous travelers are waiting to see if there ever be

admitted to one of the globe's most so real terrorist signs the dead zone around nuclear plant in ukraine twenty five years after the worst ever atomic disaster trips to the area have been halted allegations that illegal. 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 not bill itself over the past decade 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 prepared 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. of their childhood like the atmosphere of the soviet union has been preserved but for me it's more important not why they come here which 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 an unhealthy 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 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 late september ukraine's thirty kilometer nuclear wasteland will

remain closed to the public until then but the debate remains very much open. ski r.t. reporting from kiev and to nobble in ukraine. or from our exclusive story. i have asked him dot com his thoughts online right now u.k. for his city visit to russia could herald i revamp relations between the two countries had to ask find for an in-depth analysis. under russian communications satellite long since space has come online often three weeks of radiation silence board call plus check out all of all best videos on you change channel. is.

the official location. called talk show from the. video. and street now in the palm of your. machine on the dot com. and runs first nuclear power plant is now on stream off of being officially launched the russian built facility is the only substation in the entire middle east bush says currently running at forty percent capacity will reach full power on top of some washable continue to provide help and fuel for the

flaws underground will send a spent fuel back to russia to ease the tension in the west over any uranium enrichment program the u.s. and the have long been concerned the country is building a nuclear bomb but to run insistence on a strictly peaceful i felt that in the reset the school of oriental and african saudis at the university of london police around has the rights to peaceful nuclear energy just like any other developed nation. we have now a decades long standoff between iran and the west and 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 in the best way to do that is through economic sanctions economic sanctions and 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 confirmed by numerously and on numerous occasions spoil 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. in a warm welcome for iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad in new york when he visits the u.n. general assembly a massive billboard in times square accuses iran of allying with al qaeda he posted was put out by the united against nuclear iran group which opposes surrounds nuclear plans it also wants hotels to refuse to accommodate at dinner shan't leave any island of 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 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. and i think it's now hang on aussies stay with us the business with the. hello and a very warm welcome to the business program the clouds of uncertainty continue to pile up in europe rising expectations for the greek default and a possible downgrade of french banks are causing the financial barometer to drop sharply and russia is not immune to discuss the issue i'm joined by estefan money a global head of fixed income and currencies for loan bought or g.s. thank you very much for joining us so they were both the russian equities forming

sharply why europe's debt problems having such an impact especially as russia has a very balanced budget the reason for this situation is that we are in the aftermath still of the two thousand or eight crises basically people are realizing that we have made very little progress in reducing the debt situation in the world and people are becoming very risk averse and they are selling do you know russian as it's not specific to be but in the context of the general risk aversion and sell off of all risky assets other anyways for russia to escape the worst effects from here up. i think the best policy for russia going forward is to diversify away from oil which is very often russia is seen as an extension of the oil. that basically and when people expect the economy to slow down they also expect you know the price of oil going down and therefore they are

selling russian sets so better diversification away from will be in favor of russia going forward. so how do you see the debt problems in europe progress saying it's going to get worse before it gets better it probably has been already going from bad to worse for about eighteen months and the politician that been very slow in solving this issue now we are at a stage where you know there is basically a dilemma between letting greece default which is probably from a pure economic point of view the most sensible thing to do and the kind of chain reaction that could trigger the taking over peripheral european countries such as portugal ireland spain and italy. is often a notable man for the markets but what chances of another crash i think we are already experiencing a crash and crisis which is not very far in terms of size that what we experience

in two thousand and eight and i think unfortunately the short term outlook is pretty bleak and we going to probably experience very difficult. in financial markets let's speak about the russian currency what's your forecast for the russian ruble i think there could be a little bit more weakness to come due to the fact that the slowdown of the world economy the price of oil will go down and to be dragged down the financial ruble or wherever i would be more optimistic in the medium to long run because as you rightly pointed out in your. introduction the. reason reasonably well. my advice to our customers is to invest in a portfolio of well diversified currencies and especially in american currencies so you think the washer is more attractive for investors than other bric countries. i think the russian economy is not diversified enough away from all to be more

attractive other countries such as brazil and china. all right thank you very much that was stephen long year global head of fixed income and currencies for long but they were analysis and it was to have time to have a quick look at the markets oil has spared early gains up to the international energy agency it's asked for to march growth and raise its supply forecast countering support provided by rebalance the euro and stock markets just wanted to one hundred twelve dollars per barrel lights which is hovering at eighty eight dollars a barrel. and there is little optimism around in europe as investors focus on the weakness of the global economy the food scene and the techs have dropped for a third day raising an early advance us concern that europe's sovereign debt crisis may home because of me and reduced banks access to funding. positive sentiment seem to dominate early morning trade on tuesday in russia with the indices tracking the

u.s. and asia higher but they are chasin the might six quickly refers to those modest gains with the lead to sleeping under fifteen hundred points let's have a look at some of the individual share moves on the my six most energy majors a down despite strong of crude both. to losing over half a percent and bank of st petersburg is also in the road despite posting stronger than expected results its first top note profit quadrupled to one hundred forty eight minutes. so we have time for now you're up to date for more stories you can log on to our website archie dot com slash business.

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