this is r.t. live from moscow nato airstrikes have hit the remaining strongholds of gadhafi loyalists in libya helping rebels to attack in the east that says the opposition rather the leader of the opposition and his first speech since the colonel is ousted libyans to strive for a civil democratic state based on moderate islam meanwhile on this international has called on the country of north parties to end human rights abuses of using both sides of the conflicts of violence concern grows over the humanitarian situation in libya that's seen eva two thousand six hundred killed since the uprising began where phenomenon has been taking to the people 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 leave. all reminders of a recently overthrown dictatorship are suppressed what used to bring nightmares to some for decades is now a cause for laughter. should shoot 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 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 for real.

and killed you can see a bird was about to give a few but you can see a lot of blood was of water and the boy could be a national icon for what they are talking about democracy this is not democracy ikram 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 freedom good that feels good run away this is not true believe me because they are afraid to war if good return back to tripoli you see the same people same people same personal things they are supporting a revolution can bring much hope but 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 a lot 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 celebrates or 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 written off r.t. tripoli libya now but thousands vomit rebels across libya have become another concern for the new leadership out it seems to establish order in an hour's time we'll be showing our interview with brian johnson thomas a former u.n. expert who explains what needs to be done to stop the flow of weapons here's a preview. all gotten 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. 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 them there is certainly an organization called a call card or the marker which would there's always a secure interest in what happens in libya and once you get support for the revolution of any sort then you tend to boost control of some of the individuals within it is one of the troubles is. really where you could have a society where the goodness came as if it's vigils respect the rule of law and majority of gun crimes with 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

particularly they will be a temptation on people to keep guns for their own defense but not then resist temptation to use a gun for something that you shouldn't be used. now the u.s. embassy and they say headquarters in the afghan capital on to heavy attack by taliban fighters but may have been claims that staging a coordinated strike on government district which is meant to be a secure area insurgent still occupied the high rise building from which they're firing guns and rocket propelled grenades suicide to have been involved in the assault forces are putting out fierce resistance several people have reportedly been killed this comes just weeks after an attack on the british counsel's office in the same district that left twelve people dead the taliban a sprint. but that balance across the countries that they take began handing over power to afghan forces in july or more it's about

a story as we get it but i mean won't. and it's tough a period of financial crisis that the u.s. is desperate for cash but despite the times there are polls of the country where the green shoots of prosperity continue to grow as a. vow 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 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 with 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. private prison industry. to achieve policy 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 ahead this hour dissolves seeing adventurous travelers. periods of the exclusion zone twenty five years the chernobyl nuclear plant but the government says the tools are illegal. no quarter of a new billboard in times square accuses iran of partnering with al qaeda just as the reigning presidents do in new york the u.n. general assembly. which will write a few songs from some stupid. stunts

on t.v. dot com. germany has called on euro zone members to stick together in an attempt to settle over the potential greek default the chancellor says that greece mistaya board the blog to avoid causing a domino effect statement came off the fears of greece declaring bankruptcy called a shop for the global markets on monday it was triggered by reports that germany was preparing for greece to leave the euro say athens has been struggling to bring its debt crisis under control despite stringent measures to make the confidence says there's no easy way out. there different ways that. european central bank. you could go about dealing with a default in greece or an exit of greece portugal or some of the peripheral

countries they could break the euro into two different types of euro 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 you have a country the size of italy which is no longer really able to access the markets the way that they're accessing that for the markets but the e.c.b. is in their buying spanish debt so the fact that you have these countries on able to issue debt paper on their own is frightening for the european union for the eurozone there is no real exit mechanism from the euro if you're part of the v.m. you you're part of it supposedly for life ok and so we saw how chaotic it was when argentina. default on its debt and exited the dollar peg in the case of greece it's not even a peg they've given up their currency their french banks that are that are potentially on the hook with a lot of greek debt now who's exposed to those french banks then who is exposed to the banks that are closed the french banks a lot of the banks prefer an environment like they've had now which is we can lever up as much as we want doesn't matter and if we lose we just get bailed out there

they have structurally adjusted their business model and their profit making mechanism to this new environment which has been perpetual bailouts that we've seen since one thousand nine hundred. now in the meantime italy by its own debt crisis has turned to china for a possible rescue top level talks were held in beijing after italy moved closer to the epicenter of europe's financial turmoil italy's treasury refused to give out details of the meeting but it's understood that time there was offered the chance to buy a share of italy's debt. governments pushing a fifty four billion euro that includes changes to pensions government spending cuts and the special levy on the rich the lower house of parliament expected to approve it by wednesday. ok second because some other news from around the world now this hour on turkey's prime minister is a close race on a three day meeting to offer support to the post mubarak egypt and racial type of

the yard it was also on the visit seeing other arab states whose leaders were recently allister's the arab league ministers museum the turkish premier said that israel has isolated itself and lost the prize and to apologize grits raid on a gaza aid flotilla that killed nine takesh activists ties between the jewish state and cairo austrian too often rises ransacked the israeli embassy from a state of five policemen in the water crossfire last month. but have ambushed a school bus of the pakistani city of peshawar killing four children and the driver the boss was taking the nine to fourteen year old students when the gunman struck there have been no claims of responsibility for the attack so far northwest of pakistan is torn between government support of tribal armies an islamist militants with links to al qaeda has carried out hundreds of attacks against civilians in recent. sex abuse the victims have submitted claims of the international

criminal court calling for pope benedict the sixteenth and top koppel's to be investigated for possible crimes against humanity vatican officials have been a key. of negligence and supervising priests and turning a blind eye to sexual crimes against children thousands of individual cases each year but the court has never before you could a single formal investigation into the catholic church which. now there may be a frosty reception for iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad in new york this september as he plans to attend the sixty sixth u.n. general assembly next week a massive billboard in times square accuses iran of times with. the huge paste it was put out by united against nuclear iran grief which opposes nuclear plans this comes as. the two american hikers arrested enter around for trespassing will soon be released but some in the u.s.

are also angry that around the president is that i want to travel to new york called to his recent comments accusing washington of using the nine eleven tragedy to justify attacks all around and afghanistan even even to the independent is you think tank told r.t. that the hostility towards iran only increases its design in nuclear weapons. if you remember after nine eleven iran helped the united states apprehend some elk people and provided intelligence on them because remember iraq. islamic government is different than the al qaeda which is sunni and the iranian government is shia in the. is hostile to the billboard for earlier demonizes iran so i think the problem with demonization as we've seen in the case of saddam hussein and moammar gadhafi 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 and sees that iraq and libya who gave up their nuclear weapons programs they got invaded or attacked. and it's been dubbed one of the most exotic tourist destinations twenty five years after the chernobyl nuclear disaster the eighty nations around the plant seems been pulling people in and not driving them away but the government recently banned excursions to the zone amid allegations they were providing unhealthy profits for officials although with . the area could still see. 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 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 former resident of the goldstone of has been organizing these stories 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 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 of. 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. looks

your show. from q. one can update now on our developing story beyond going taliban assault on the center of the afghan capital officials say that at least one person has been killed and sixteen wounded in the fighting the u.s. embassy and nato headquarters in kabul are under heavy gun and r.p.g. fire several other parts of the capital have also been attacked by suicide bombers insurgents stormed in and all comprised of empty building in the gulf of st afghan and nato forces are putting up fierce resistance this comes just weeks after an attack on the british council votes in the same district that left twelve people dead will of course bring you more on this story as we get it. now a bit later in our spotlight program and we'll talk to the head of the russian

nanotechnology corporation out of college a biased before going to business update with marina. hello and welcome to business here on arts and the ruble is trading close to its lowest level against the u.s. dollar for eight months investors are concerned europe's persistent debt crisis could hit demand for fuel and effectively hinder russia's economic growth this has been reinforced by comments on tuesday from finance minister alex included in who says he expects a ruble to slide even further well joining me now is jacob now our chief economist at morgan stanley russia thank you so much for joining us now please tell us what are the prospects for the ruble in that well actually i think they're pretty good at current oil prices if you look at what's happening to reserves which is the kind of results of the entire set of. transactions between russia and the rest of the world every week we've been seeing an increase in international reserves and if you

think about oil exports at these prices and what's happened if we take what i think you'll find that the current account continues to be very strong and russia on the capital account it's a little bit less predictable but i think with the uncertainty around the elections the may have been an increase in capital outflows though not to the level that we saw earlier this year so actually we expect the ruble to strengthen again from current levels going forward what you mentioned uncertainty over the election but in general the budget is quite balanced and russia's economy is still growing why is it perceived as such a high risk because people see commodity exporters and russia raise in crude terms of quality exporter of oil and gas is sixty five percent of exports as being a play on global growth and global growth is hard their growth will be higher when global growth is low their growth will be lower and so i think people see russia as being exposed to global growth when global growth goes down they may pile out of

russian assets but this time around are not. sure that's the right response because . commodity prices depend upon growth in emerging markets such as china north on growth in developed markets where demand for commodities such as all is very stable so as long as what's happening remains confined to developing markets and doesn't extend to china and india the source of additional demand for oil russia should be relatively insulated what you mentioned other emerging markets would you say that russia is more vulnerable to a meltdown in europe then it's full of bric nations well i think it's less vulnerable than central europe and then turkey because the trade and investment relations with the e.u. are less or less tight they're more dependent upon the price of commodities which is set in the global market by china or india arm so i think that it's probably as insulated as any of the emerging markets apart from china and india which are

so large that they they kind of determine their own fate but of course in russia all price is the thing to watch if it goes below eighty dollars russia is in trouble but at the moment we see chinese growth opec discipline and the small margin of spare capacity is reason to be relatively bullish on the old course now taking everything into account do you think we're heading towards another financial crisis i think financial crises kind of happen unexpectedly and we've seen this one coming a long way off we all know that. government stepped in when banks failed and markets crashed in two thousand and eight and increased their debt in order to support growth and now we have problems with sovereign debt but we've all seen it coming and as a consequence i think minor financial markets are prepared for it so i think it won't be a crash i think it may be more of

a slide and it'll be slow and protected and painful. well so i don't think they'll be an event that triggers some kind of dramatic turnaround as we had with the lehmann brothers bankruptcy for instance the european banks that have a substantial amount of greek debt they're well know the governments know about it and so in the event of a greek default event there already are expect contingency plans in place which they work with lehmann brothers and they work with a high g. so you mention that you don't expect to see a crash but october has historically been a big month for the markets so what do you expect to see maybe another slide as you put it since not a crash or. i don't see at the moment i think that the markets are already pricing in a recession and we don't see a recession at the moment we see in the developed world in europe and the u.s. growth single all just positive territory and in the emerging world in china or

india continuing to power ahead at seven eight percent so i think the markets are already more personally stick or central view of where the economy is going you know august is often a month in russian politics but this all has nothing happened not every october is bad all right thank you very much take up now their dream for economists at morgan stanley here in russia thank you so much for being here thank you. but i thought we have a bit of time left so let's take a look at the markets for start with oil prices which are at higher the sour following rebounds and the euro and stock markets earlier we saw losses after the international energy agency cut its estimate for demand growth and raised its supply forecast. and there is little optimism around europe as investors focus on the weakness of the global economy the footsie and the docs have managed to raise earlier losses that ring concerns in europe sovereign debt crisis may be quantum

and reduced banks access to funding. and here in russia the markets bounced back from earlier losses as well both the arts yes and the my sex are in the black this hour let's take a look at some and that's movers on the my sex most energy majors are still down despite stronger crude gas from has managed to come out of negative territory and bank st petersburg itself supported by stronger than expected results its first half net profit for example to one hundred forty eight million dollars that's all business news for now the headlines are next.

now in our must do business don cherry and libyan rebels the tank the few remaining strongholds of moammar gadhafi under a shield of nato air strikes about his honesty in such horrible war crimes committed by mcconnell's loyalists and their own consumption of immunity the ship restoring order and security. ukraine question the legality of tools of the nuclear design of the side in chernobyl amid allegations they were providing on healthy profits to officials but experts say the contaminated land might be just the place for a new industrial projects. in germany attempts to calm fears they would greece's potential default by urging members of the year is going to stick to get.