international news and comment live from our headquarters here in central moscow this is our team in libya the transitional authority has given residents of the besieged gadhafi stronghold two days to evacuate or face a full scale attack as nato airstrikes help the rebels to secure a key oil town in the east the leader of the m.t.c. the national transitional council in his first speech since the colonel was asked to urge libyans to strive for a civil democratic state based on moderate islam. international has called on the country's new leaders to prevent human rights abuses accusing both sides of the conflict the violence concern grows over the humanitarian situation in libya that seen over two thousand six hundred killed since the uprising began more of a notion has been talking to the people of tripoli about the outcome of the. gadhafi 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 laughter. his curly hair we call him because his hair is so long and he doesn't cut it it's ugly actually but someone out smiling believe in the post gadhafi of freedom is nothing but a mirror as a crime has been the arrest 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 kadar 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. what you can say about. what they are talking. democracy this is not democracy ikram says leave it 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 there feels good are no way this is not true believe me because they are fair to war if you get 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 these here who are still on the streets this weekend seven months after toppling president mubarak angry at the lack 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. the thousands of armed rebels across libya have become another concern for the new leadership as it seeks to establish order and later this hour we'll be showing our interview with brian johnson thomas now he's a former u.n. expert who explains what needs to be done to stop the flow of weapons and here's a brief preview for you. old guns 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 are concerns as you know that

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 that is certainly an organization called a calculator the margret which is always you taking 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 it one of the troubles is. the only way you could have a society where the gun isn't came is if individuals respect the rule of law and majority of gun crimes part 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 trusty 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 which you shouldn't be used. and that full interview coming your way a little later here on. the latest on the developing story in afghanistan now where at least six people have been killed and twenty wounded in an ongoing taliban attack in the government district that's according to reports coming out of the capital the u.s. embassy and nato led coalition headquarters in kabul have come under heavy fire and several other sites in the city were also attacked including police posts and the office of iran's press t.v. channel insurgents stormed and occupied an empty high rise building from which they may have been firing guns and rocket propelled grenades afghan and nato forces have surrounded the scene and several insurgents are reported. but at least one still remains inside the building this comes just weeks after twelve people died in an attack on the british counsel's office in the same district the taliban has been stepping up its advance across the country since nato began over to afghan forces

in july stay with us here on our t.v. for more updates on the developing situation in kabul. in a tough period of financial crisis the u.s. is desperate for cash but despite these straitened times there are parts of the country where the green shoots of prosperity continue to flourish and as marina portnoy 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 unseen 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 seventy there would be a sign out front with their stock price to let them know how the company was doing corrections corporation of america and geo group are the two largest private prison

companies which combined revenues of two point nine billion dollars last year but critics say they've been using that financial clout to line their own pockets even further encouraging politicians to keep going with the heavy handed sentencing program by launching an influential lobby campaign in the corridors of power lobbying and in order to influence public officials only a small part of the 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. is not tonight here in moscow eleven minutes past the hour now still ahead for you disasters sightseeing adventurous travelers want a first hand experience of the exclusion zone twenty five years after the chernobyl nuclear plant blast but the government says the tools are illegal and. no court will welcome a new billboard in times square accuses iran of partnering with al qaida just as the iranian president is in new york for the u.n. general assembly a story still to come. but first tonight we 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 he spoke. following the assault in which three people died in clashes with security forces on friday angry crowds stormed the compound in response to five egyptian officers being killed by israeli troops in a border clash last month meanwhile turkish prime minister who is on

a three day visit to cover it as the one of his relatives facing growing regional isolation and turkish political commentator have told r.t. that israel stubbornness over knowledge and recent changes is a recipe for failure. israel now is getting away from the notion that it needs rational democratic allies in the region and this isolation now taking place because israeli coalition israeli decision makers on the political level are choosing even to to if you will believe. it's by refusing to apologize for turkey for what has been taking place ever since mavi marmara incident and also killing of egyptian soldiers in sydney and hoping to get away with what has been done against them certainly puts

for forward. in israeli image in the people's. country to continue all to fashion policies while the world or around them in their need to be seen if he is is really changing powerfully and radically. 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 statements came after fears of greece declaring bankruptcy calls the shots for all in global markets on monday was triggered by reports that germany was preparing for greece to leave the eurozone in athens it's been struggling to bring its debt crisis under control despite stringent a steady measures financial journalist says 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 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 the country is the size of italy which is no longer really able to access the markets the way they're accessing the credit markets but the e.c.b. isn't there 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 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 is 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 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 nine hundred eighty. in the meantime italy burdened by its own debt crisis has turned to china for a possible rescue the top level talks were held with beijing after italy moved closer to the epicenter of europe's financial turmoil rome's treasury refused to give out details but it's understood that china was offered an option to buy a stake in the italian sovereign debt the government is pushing a fifty four billion euro austerity package that includes changes to pensions government spending cuts and a special levy on the rich and the lower house of parliament is expected to approve it by wednesday. thousands of people gathered in the last level to say a final goodbye to the ice hockey player alexander gleam of he died in hospital five days after the plane crash that killed almost the whole look at motive team

last week the twenty six year old suffered severe burns to his body and respiratory tract family friends and fans gathered at the team's home stadium in the us level to lay flowers and pay their last respects a plane carrying the. hockey team crashed in central russia killing forty four people and one of the crew members from the plane is now disasters only survivor. so take a quick look now at some of the other news from around the world in our world update this hour. 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 struck have been no claims responsibility for the attack so far western pakistan has torn between government supported tribal armies and islamist militants with links to al qaida carried out hundreds attacks against civilians in recent years. two passenger trains in a bus collided in the argentinian city of killing seven people and wounding one

hundred sixty two some of them critically the crash took place during rush hour when a passenger bus drove round barriers in an attempt to save time and was hit by a train throwing it onto a platform express then the rail and hit another that was going the other way. six abuse victims of semitic claims the international criminal court calling for the sixteenth and. to be investigated for possible crimes against humanity that's been officials are being used to negligence in supervising priests and turning a blind eye to sexual crimes against children thousands of individual cases abroad each year but the court has never before a single formal investigation into the catholic church. and maybe a frosty reception for iranian president mahmoud new york this coming september as he plans to attend the sixty sixth u.n. general assembly next week unless a billboard in times square accuses iran of allying with al qaida each post that

was put out by the united against a new group that opposes ted rowlands nuclear plans some americans are also angry that it is allowed to travel to the u.s. after his recent comments accusing washington of using the nine eleven tragedy to justify attacks on iraq and afghanistan but ivan eland of the independent institute think tank told auntie that novel still ety towards iran only increases its desire for nuclear weapons. if you remember after nine eleven iran helped the united states apprehend. people and provided intelligence on them because remember. 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 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. it 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 sees that iraq and libya who gave up their nuclear weapons programs they got invaded or attacked. 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 banned excursions of the zone

amid allegations they were providing unhealthy profits for officials well those artes and discovered 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 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 to the contaminated zone around should know bill itself over the past 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.

and looks on the 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. but. you people have different reasons. some want to see what an apocalypse could look like or 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 why they come here it's what effect it has on them. but since june 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 their air 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. alexy rasho ski and see reporting from kiev and should not be in ukraine. by the way all our news videos and updates are just a click of the mouse away here's what's on t.v. dot com got for you at the moment should you log on right now near miss tragedy was narrowly avoided one of moscow's airports when the plane carrying almost three hundred passengers collided with a town. north of legendary masterpiece gets a make over an award winning thirty meter mosaic map of the soviet union made with forty five hundred jewels and gemstones is being restored to its former glory those stories and plenty of others in our teeth dot com.

twenty four minutes past the hour here in moscow up soon we'll be talking to a former u.n. arms trade expert on how serious the flow of arms firearms is and what's being done about it but first marina brings us the latest business bulletin stay with us for that. hello and welcome to business here on the clouds of uncertainty continues a pileup in europe rising expectations of a greek default and a possible downgrade of french banks are causing the financial barometer to drop sharply and russia is not immune with the ruble now it's letting out an eight month low however jacob now from morgan stanley here russell believes there are 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 into the school reserves and if you think about oil exports at these prices and what's happened if we take sports i think you'll fall into the current to kill continues to be very strong. on the capital carol it's a little bit less predictable but i think with the uncertainty around the election it 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 the care in from current levels going forward. but let's take a look at the markets now or oil prices are mixed following rebounds in the euro and in the stock markets the international energy agency cut its estimate for demand growth and some of that supply expectations. in the u.s. markets are mixed this hour as volatility continues across the board the dow is now losing point two percent while the nasdaq is up point five percent. and then europe

investors are concerned by the weakness of the global economy and markets there are closed and positive territory with banks among the top performers following heavy losses in the previous session. and here in russia markets bounced back from earlier losses and the end of the trade in session in the black both the arts yes and the my sex added point three percent and let's take a look at some index movers on the my sex most energy majors were down the spine strong crude and bucking the trend was there also nickel the company's board has approved the terms of a new share buyback it's ready to spend one point five billion dollars to buy a seven point seven percent stake from minority shareholders also oversell says it's ready to discuss the sale of its twenty five percent stake in our school nickel and the price is for whites. so i'm now for an artsy business exclusive the c.e.o. of bring on the sun carlos watson says his company will soon take

a majority stake in after the us it currently owns twenty five percent of russia's top carmaker and the goshi ations to buy more progress and well. the reason that many we should hopefully not be very far from a conclusion i would say it's a question of months and 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 of us are being been everywhere through rehabilitation of existing capacity like a film like the self to force to 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 all investing in russia and the demand in russia is picking up through the development of the economy so i'm very bullish on the russian market. well a giant gas from that is preparing the deal which could lessons for years that russia will be locked out of libya following the revolution gas from sources say

the company will proceed with the plan to develop and all of its field cold elephants last year it agreed to buy one third of the project from any one hundred sixty three million dollars there had also been concerns russian firms could suffer from moscow's slow recognition of the rebel governments and. courts in central russia has declared the recent search of a moscow office by bailiffs was illegal the raid was done at the request of partners in the russian oil for me and they're currently suing b.p. for three billion dollars in compensation they claim b.p. broke their shareholder agreements by attempting to form an alliance with false left to explore the arctic the right don't be as was inside that song cover files into the lawsuits. and that's all the business news for now the headlines are next with bill.

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if you just joined us a very warm welcome this is coming to live from the russian capital with you twenty four hours a day top stories in the u.s. and romania signed a missile defense pact. the deployment of u.s. missile interceptors in romania in may washington and book rest agreed that standard missile three interceptions will be fielded to the. base near romania's border with gary i will bring you live pictures of all of that signing ceremony taking place at the moment in washington d.c. . and other news the libyan transitional forces have given residents of the besieged strongholds two days to leave or face. it is.