a very warm welcome to this is our city live from moscow nato airstrikes have hit the remaining strongholds of gadhafi loyalists in libya helping rebels to attack a key oil town in the east as the leader of the opposition his first speech since the colonel was ousted libyans to strive for a civil democratic state based on moderate islam meanwhile on this international has called on the country's new or fourteenth to prevent human rights abuses excusing both sides of the conflict of violence concern grows over the humanitarian situation in libya has seen over two thousand six hundred killed rising began. there 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 you. all

remind us of a recently overthrown dictatorship ross oppressed what used to bring nightmares to some for decades is now a cause for law after a father should shoot for his show curly hair we call him shit because his hair is so long and he doesn't cut it it's ugly actually but someone 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 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 see above words about gadhafi what you can say about wars about. cancer but 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 there feels good are no way this is not true believe me because they are fair to all of good birth returned back to tripoli you see the same people same people same person and feel 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 lot of progress on the reforms libya's 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 river national r.t. tripoli libya. afghan officials say at least one person has been killed and sixteen wounded in an ongoing taliban assault on the capital the u.s. embassy and nato headquarters in kabul on the heavy fire while several other parts of the city have also been attacked by suicide bombers insurgents stormed in and did empty high rise building from which they're firing guns and rocket propelled grenades afghan and nato forces are putting up fierce resistance several insurgents have reportedly been killed up to four remain inside the building this comes just

weeks after an attack on the british council office in the same district that left twelve people dead the taliban has been stepping up its advance across the country since dating began handing power a bit after july we'll stay with r.t. for more updates. now on a tough period of financial crisis the u.s. is desperate for cash but despite the strait and times reports of the country with the green shoots prosperity continued to flourish. pornography 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 prison. 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 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 have you at this hour dissolved the sightseeing at band camp and from firsthand experience of the exclusion zone twenty five being the chernobyl nuclear plant but the government says the tools are illegal. now tell of the will continue to abide by its peace treaty with egypt despite the attack on its embassy in cairo that's according to israel's prime minister what he spoke following the assault in which three people died in clashes with security forces on friday and crowds stormed the compound in response to five rejection officers being killed by israeli troops in a border clash last month meanwhile ankara warns israel is facing growing regional isolation as the turkish prime minister arrives on

a visit to egypt there suck ass alive an hour to cairo where dr john mansel time from the center for political and strategic studies joins us live many thoughts of being with us here on r.t. so why is it only now that we're seeing this growing sense of anger against israel and its policies in the region do you think. well there was a time in particularly in the mid one nine hundred ninety s. we were in the high expectations for peace and reconciliation in the region but since in things are not going to the right direction and now we see a region that is in a turning point a turning point in which the people have a bigger say in politics and the making of foreign policy and we have seen them backed of that in the streets of cairo last friday in the attack on the israeli embassy so what we see now is a kind of a series in an angry feeling sadness to israel because of its continuous.

policy of ignoring palestinian. rights under the other hand of course it is also ideological changes that in. certain ideological movements are on the rise and those movements. are not friendly or having friendly or was it the feelings toward israel in general and the israeli aggression of palestinian territories in particular so perhaps it will be in the future increasing kind of. tough. talk about the normalization of peace is likely to to decline this is a moment of reconfiguration of forces of these. talks is the time clock is also here about your opinion on the situation in egypt and the actions of the egyptian military as a result of this attack using shell out of the country thinking and dealing with wants her do you think that they proved themselves capable of dealing with such

a situation. well. i believe it will be written in history that those developments in front of the israeli embassy and in that there on the embassy will will be a kind of appearing point in the developments of the egyptian revolutionary developments in egypt there was a shift in public eye to true. emphasis on the story of order and law and the. military council took advantage of this situation to reinforce itself and it's an egyptian politics that has been a kind of very active ation and also expansion of the emergency laws in the in the country that all the some measures taken against the media so the here now with the military now is applying a kind of. i on the feast to visit every egyptian politics significant support from the public of course political movement on the opposition side are. increasingly

concerned about those developments some of them argue that this is a kind of. a retreat from the will democratic development that were promised so that egypt again here is a kind of again in the theorem in point in that regard to still have to wait and see how those. tensions are likely to develop we say egypt had a turning point in its history and what do you think this all says about the attitude of the current back egyptian leadership of their attitudes towards israel particularly. the israeli couldn't figure out is how in the current attitudes in the egyptian egyptian people there is . again a certain political forces there are in the public and they can mobilize support anti israel and israel support and in the meantime you are in

a situation where the government and the regime is weak those forces. who are least do things that similar to what we have seen. there i think the egyptian israeli relation is is again in a crossroads i would think that disobey it in any kind of in the radical or drastic change in those relationship to governments in egypt and israel. would appear to contain the damage that was inflicted on egyptian israeli relations. particularly because the peace treaty between the two countries is very important for both of them until means of as a security arrangement in providing the for national security so i don't think there will be a kind of a reckless behavior that would lead to further deterioration however if this pressure coming from the public is to continue. on government and the military

failed to further consider it its or perhaps we will this will have effect on the egyptian israeli relations i care less i have a pretty flat ahead now israel's claim is doing everything it can to prevent the un from voting in favor of palestinian statehood next week how powerful the thing tell if he is in the rank rational long listening. yeah for israel this is really this is really a serious development and also for the palestinians a palestinians are fed up with this. unfruitful negotiation was israelis and they decided to take it to the upper level go to the security council and the nations of israel and the other hand see this as a kind of a very serious president because allowing the international community representatives and i to nation here to come back and have our all and the developments of the palestinian israeli regime in this will further in

international law is the conflict something that israel wants to avoid but. i think it would be very difficult situation for israel it will be but equally difficult for the united states who doesn't want to. provoke that anger in the arab streets again is the worst that can is and i state. and in the meantime doesn't want israel to be. diplomatically and the united nations and egypt interesting lisa playing an important role in trying to mobilize international support for the palestinian. request application and for from the united nations the foreign minister of egypt in a kind of a broad to revisit large number of countries to mobilize support for the palestinians so we see what we're seeing here is a kind of again a kind of widening gap between egypt and israel on that on that regard and i think the visit. the prime minister of turkey is meeting to egypt since

yesterday is figures importantly within those developments considering the negative developments in the turkish israeli relations i carried out a trial for time from the ally. germany has called on yours they stick together in an attempt to settle their potential greek default. stamp with the block to avoid causing a domino effect as statements came after fears that greece declare bankruptcy equal to shelve forward in global markets on monday it was triggered by reports that germany was preparing for greece to leave. its been struggling to bring its debt crisis under control despite stringent measures financial journalist to be cool for this is that there is no easy way out. and there are different ways that. the european central bank and the e.u.

could go about dealing with a default of greece or an exit of greece portugal or some of the peripheral countries they could break the euro into two different types of euro but 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 of the size of italy which is no longer really able to access the markets the way they're accessing the poor the markets but the e.c.b. isn't there buying italian spanish that so the fact that you have these countries 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 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 exit of 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 and who's exposed the banks very close to french banks a lot of the banks prefer an environment like they've had now which is we can lever

up as much as we want doesn't matter and if we lose we just get bailed out there 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 nine hundred eighty. in the meantime italy burdened by its own debt crisis has turned to china for a possible rescue top level talks were held with beijing are closer to the epicenter of europe's financial turmoil roams the treasury refused to give out details of the meeting but it's understood china has offered the chance to buy a share of italy's debts the government is pushing a fifty four billion. package that includes changes to pensions government spending cuts and a special levy on the rich the lower house of parliament expected to approve it by wednesday. i get a second look at some other world news this hour. but. the sun is if you.

killing four children on the drive the bus will take knowing to fourteen year old students home when the government is strong there have been no claims of responsibility for the attack a safe northwest of pakistan is torn between government supported tribal armies and islamist militants with links to al qaeda who have carried out hundreds of attacks against civilians in recent years. two passenger trains that a bus collided in the argentinian city of wind also killing seven people and wounding a hundred and sixty two some of them critically the crash took place during rush hour a passenger bus drove around crossing barriers and the tent to save time it was hit by a train throwing it onto a platform the express then do you then hit another that was going in the other way emergency services and investigators are on the scene of the crash. sex abuse victims of the british claims the international criminal court calling

for pope benedict the sixteenth and top cardinals to be investigated for possible crimes against humanity baskin officials are being accused of negligence in supervising priests and turning a blind eye to sexual crimes against children thousands of individual cases are brought in each year but the court has never before opened a single formal investigation into the catholic church. has been dubbed one of the most exotic tourist destinations twenty five years after the chernobyl nuclear disaster the alienation zone around the plant pulling people in and not driving them away but the government recently banned excursions to the zone amid allegations they were providing and healthy profits for officials all those assays and discover the area could still serve other purposes. 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 church of mobile

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 goldstone of privilege has been organizing these stories for several years you told us that visitors are always fascinated by what they see although all their motivations for making the trip have always varied. fuck. 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 you know 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 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 were to 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 there has acceptable levels of radiation that's why we can use this watch on a composite 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 should not be in ukraine. developing story in afghanistan where at least six people have been killed and fifteen wounded in an

ongoing taliban assault according to reports from the capital but the u.s. embassy and nato headquarters in kabul are still coming under heavy fire several other parts of the city have also been attacked by suicide bombers when insurgents stormed in and all that empty high rise building a from which they're firing guns and rocket propelled grenades afghan and nato forces are putting up fierce resistance several insurgents have reportedly been killed but up to four remain inside the building this comes just weeks after an attack on the british counsel's office in the same district that left twelve people dead the taliban has been stepping up its advance across the country since native began handing over to afghan forces in july to stay with r.t. for more updates. ok we've got the very latest business is on the way next with.

hello and welcome to business here on ars see the ruble is trading at eight month lows against the u.s. dollar investors are concerned that europe's persistent that crisis could hit demand for fuel and effectively hinder of russia's economic growth but it's a jacob now chief economist at morgan stanley here russia says there are good reasons not to be too pessimistic. if you look at what's happening to the 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 sport i think you'll find that the current account continues to be very strong. on the capital it's a little bit less predictable but i think with the uncertainty around the elections it may have been an increase in capital flows 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. let's take a look at the markets now oil prices are higher following rebounds in the euro and in stock markets let's take a look at what's happening over in the last markets are trading and halls of the territory both the dow and the nasdaq are going over half a percent the sour in europe investors are focusing on the weakness of the global economy but the footsie ended that have managed to raise earlier losses stemming from concerns in europe sovereign debt crisis man on the economy and reduced banks' access to funding well here in russia the markets bounce back from earlier losses as well threats he has and the my stocks are in the black this hour. so i'm now for an artsy business exclusive the c.e.o. ever known the sun carlos says his company will soon say a majority stake an aft of us it currently owns twenty five percent of russia's top carmaker and the goetia actions to buy more are progressing well. the reason that

many we should hopefully not be very far from a conclusion i would say it's a question of months i can tell you also that russia will become the largest market in europe first so in consequence one of the largest producers we're seeing capacity in russia being been everywhere through rehabilitation of existing capacity like after each of two wars through building new plants so i think the future of the car industry in russia is very strong and practically all governments which are already in russia and they're already investing in russia and the demand in russia is picking up through the government of the economy so i'm very bullish on the russian market. that's all the business for now the headlines are next with our.

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