live from moscow nato airstrikes have hit the remaining strongholds of gadhafi loyalists in libya helping rebels to attack in the east that's is the leader of the opposition in his first speech since the colonel was ousted libyans to strongly a civil a democratic state based on moderate islam meanwhile on the sea international have called on the country's new or fourteenth prevent human rights abuses accusing both sides of the conflicts violence now concern grows over the humanitarian situation in libya that seen over two thousand six hundred killed since the uprising began where phenomena has been talking to the people of tripoli about the results of their revolution. to 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 love to. show for his curly hair we call him shit 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 miraj a crime has been the rest of three times in the last two weeks rebels and target is 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 even killed you can see. what you can say about blood wars. but they are talking about democracy this is not democracy a crime says libya didn't get rid of a dictator. yep 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 freedom good there feels good are no way this is not true believe me because they are free to all of get returned back to tripoli you see the same people same people same percentage they are supporting a revolution can bring much hope but what comes afterwards is often different. those who drove egypt's revolt this year who are still on the streets this weekend seven months after toppling president mubarak angry at a like 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. reason i see tripoli libya. while the thousands of armed rebels across libya have become another concern for the new leadership as it seeks to establish order will be showing an interview with brian johnson thomas a former u.n. expert to explain what needs to be done to stop the flow of weapons but has a pretty. old 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 are concerns as you know that a lot of the rebels were until fairly recently also regarded as being in league with al-qaeda in some cases so there are some worries to what they might do with

that is certainly an organization called a calculator the market which would obviously take huge interest in what happens in libya and once you get support for the revolution of any sort then you turn to boost control of some of the individuals within it is one of the troubles is. really where you could have a society where the gun isn't came as if it's vigils respect the rule of law the majority of gun crimes would not because people 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 there because main cities but to control probably there will be a temptation on people to keep guns for their own defense not them resist temptation to use a gun for something that you shouldn't be used. in

the u.s. embassy and nato headquarters in the afghan capital under heavy attack by taliban fighters but we've been playing that staging a coordinated strike on couples district which is meant to be a secure area and certain stormed in an occupied an empty building. from which of their firing guns and rocket propelled grenades suicide bombers to help involved in the assault afghan security forces and foreign troops are putting up resistance and the number of casualties in clear this comes just weeks after an attack on the british counsel's office in the same districts that left twelve people dead the taliban has been stepping up its advance across the country since they began handing power over to afghan forces in july we more on this developing story as we get it bonds in wall. it's a tough period of financial crisis the u.s. is desperate for cash but despite the straits times there are parts of the country where the green shoots of prosperity continue to grow as aussies that we're going

to put another finds out the u.s. policy of incarceration makes for a private prison industry worth billions. 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 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 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 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. so i had a few of a sound design with the following seeing adventure with travelers want the first hundred perience of beef in twenty five years after the two noble nuclear plant. the government says the tools all illegal. and no korea welcome

a new billboard in times square accuses iran of partnering with al qaeda just as the iranian president do you in new york for the u.n. general assembly.

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post mubarak egypt is addressing we need a minister. said time will sing visit all the arab states whose need is well recently ousted the trip comes a time of strange relations with its refusal to apologize for the raid on my goals eight patella they killed knowing talking to their ties between the jewish state in cairo all strange to offer rogers ransacking israeli embassy for mistakenly killing five policemen. buda crossfire last month. gunmen have ambushed a school bus in the pakistani city of peshawar killing four children and the driver the bus was taking the nine to fourteen year old students home when the gunman strug there's been no claims of responsibility for the attack so far northwestern pakistan is torn between a government support of tribal armies and islamist militants with links to al qaida who carried out hundreds of attacks against civilians in recent years. sex abuse

victims of submitted claims to the international criminal court calling for pope benedict the sixteenth and top cardinals to be investigated for possible crimes against humanity vatican officials are being accused of negligence in supervising a priest and turning a blind eye to sexual crimes against children thousands of individual cases are brought each year but the court has never before opened the single formal investigation into the catholic church. germany has called on euro zone members to stick together in an attempt to settle nerves over the potential greek default the chancellor says the greece must stay aboard the block to avoid causing a domino effect as statement came after fears of greece declaring bankruptcy cause a shock for the global markets on monday it was triggered by reports that germany was preparing for greece to leave the euro zone since it's been struggling to bring

its debt crisis on the whole despite stringent austerity measures financial journalist dimitri coffee now says that there is no easy way out. there different ways that. european central bank and you can 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 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 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 are 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 that whose exposed the banks that are closed the french banks a lot of the banks prefer an environment like they've had now which is we can lever up as much as we want doesn't matter and if we lose we just get bailed out their their 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. well in the meantime if by its debt crisis has turned to china for a possible rescue top level talks were held with beijing off to move closer to the epicenter of europe's financial turmoil treasury refused to give out details of the meeting but it's understood that china was offered the chance to buy a share of italy's debts the italian government's pushing a fifty four billion euro package that includes changes to pensions government

spending cuts and especially at the on the rich the lower house of parliament is expected to approve it by wednesday. it's been dubbed one of the most exotic tourist destinations twenty five years after the chernobyl nuclear disaster the alienation zone around the plant seems to be putting people in and not driving them away but the government recently bound excursions to the zone and made allegations they were providing on healthy profits for officials well they were. discovered at the area could still serve other purposes. these cars were once heavily affected by nuclear radiation now the radiator 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 to the contaminated zone around sure the noble 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 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. 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 the chernobyl zone will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes. due to decontamination procedures almost half of the area has acceptable

levels of radiation that's why we can use this large spaces to build solar and wind power stations and even grow be a fuel their 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 but the debate remains very much open. ski r.t. reporting from kiev and to normal in ukraine. now that may be a. frosty reception of poor iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad's new york this september as he plans to attend the sixty six u.n. general assembly next week and that's a billboard in times square he uses around of a nine with. a huge poster was put up by the united against. which oppose the transmute plans some americans are also angry that the now to travel to the us off

to his recent comments accusing washington of using the nine eleven tragedy to justify its hands on iran and afghanistan even even to depend. told all teeth of the hostility towards iran only increases its design to nuclear weapons. if you remember after all nine eleven iran helped the united states apprehend. people and provided intelligence on them because remember iran. islamic government is different than the al qaeda which is sunni and the iranian government of the shia in 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 all our news if it is not days are just a click of the mouse away his wallet he dot com has you on line right now which is a prime minister david cameron receives a top recommendation for being a k.g.b. agent in the russian president dmitri medvedev. also russians duncan like who should be lost in space has come online after three weeks of silence more at all to

you don't call and don't forget to check out the best of videos on the new chief of course dot com slash russia today. about the way the news this hour up it up with the headline surely but before about a business update with. hello and welcome to business here on artsy a course in central russia has declared their recent search of b.p.'s most golfers by bailiffs was illegal the raid was done that the request of b.p.'s partners in the russian oil firm. they're currently suing b.p. for three billion dollars in compensation and they claim b.p.

broke their shareholder agreement by attempting to form an alliance with rosneft to explore the arctic their way they'll be first was intended to uncover files relating to the lawsuits. trade between russia and the you take a has gone fifty percent since the beginning of the year in the wake of david cameron's visit to moscow our business at cern that pull caught up with the head of the russo british chamber of commerce and he started by asking some agger if the problems in the political sphere in recent years have affected business interests. well i think one has got to divide the business relationships into the natural resource sector and the rest i one can say without any shadow of doubt at all that there's been no discernible impact on the normal natural resource sector has the b.p. situation affected the way in which business is done here i think it's affected the business climate in this way and that is that it's created

a lot of headlines and that has influenced what i call senior board level decision taking amongst british companies they have been i think over in my view overly concerned by the problems that b.p. are perceived to have had an overly influence therefore in their decisions on big investments in russia what does the u.k. want from russia we want more russian companies to be investing in the u.k. and we think that that is something where actually russian companies are not fulfilling their full potential and i think then collaboration in the high tech area is also extremely important i mean there was an important balance for yesterday everest nonna investment in a cambridge base cambridge grace company and i see much much more of that is the case of selling technology for cash with little in the way of trade turnover of

actual goods. no i don't think that's fair i think there are there is very significant exports of manufactures of consumer goods increasing amount of joint ventures but i mean any modern economy you know the old idea that a developed european economy is an exporter of physical goods that is just an outdated outdated view so in any economy whether it's the us economy or even for that of a german economy a very high percentage of what you export are actually services. russian oil major all snuffed is negotiating with two companies to jointly explore the black sea shelf one of them is exxon mobil which recently signed an arctic exploration deal with the russian company earlier also have discussed the possibility of black sea exploration with america's chaperone however negotiations were stopped in june

it was reported to be the other company showing an interest in the project. and it's like a look at the markets now will start with a boil which has hard earlier gains after the international energy agency cut its estimate for them and growth and raised its supply forecast counter and support provided by every balance and a bureau in stock markets brant is now it's trading at one hundred twelve dollars a barrel while light sweet is at around eighty nine dollars. and there is little optimism around in europe as investors focus on the weakness of the global economy the footsie and the banks have dropped for a third day in an earlier advance as concern agree that europe's sulfur in that crisis it may harm to call them in and produce banks access to funding the dax is now trading slightly higher. than here in russia the markets bounced back from earlier losses both the arts yes and the my sex are slightly in the black this hour let's take a look at some index movers on the my sex most energy majors are still down despite

stronger crude both gas and roles that are losing over a half a percent this hour and bank st peter's work is all supported by stronger than expected results its first half net profit quadrupled one hundred thirty eight million dollars. and that's all business news for now the headlines are next with buy for now. the.

this is our libyan rebels attacked the few remaining strongholds of moammar gadhafi under a shield of nato air strikes on the sea international were full of crimes committed by camels a loyalist and the opposition new leadership to restore order and security. ukraine questioned the legality of tools to the nuclear disaster site in chernobyl amid allegations they were providing on healthy profits to officials but experts say the contaminated land might be just the place for new industrial projects and. germany attempts to calm fears and greece's potential default by urging members of the year is going to stick together but stormy skies and looming over europe the debts to.