center of president and i'm off to meet an old friend of his. son who has been a professor at the local university for more than forty years and has literally see in the gardens grow from nothing to what they are today still it's done in a regularly i wouldn't pattern like the english style. there are different heights as you can see and you can find every conceivable form of plants. in fact there are more than seventy different rare breeds in the gardens and susana was happy to show me some of her favorites. can you feel it. that's right still smells like. they're around twenty full time staff here but they can always do with one hand and

that meant so i got to put my own tiny sapling and look around. this this little maple tree is one of more than forty thousand trees that have all been floated by hand and hopefully in a few decades to come it will still be here giving say to the president locals. unfortunately in my time in the city was coming to an end but there was one group of local heroes a really wants to meet. the people here love the combine river which runs right through president but it can also be a dangerous place there are up to five accidents a day on the water during the summer season but that's what cross and it does river rescue service is here for. oh i was here to see what sort of challenges i face.

yes once i changed into my official rescue ranger gear we were ready to head on to the river. if you will from now this is a typical day you know we're on patrol but you're right you only want to do is go down the cuban river all the way to places where bathing is allowed and most importantly where it's not allowed to. shoot the problem is that there is a very strong current in the kugan river and swimming can be very dangerous. some people try to judge when they're under the influence of alcohol. like loose teenagers over there for instance but as the pope drove past they seem to change their minds pretty quickly. two guys are there and it's hard to put a place for. picture and his colleagues normally patrol a forty kilometer stretch but state the public role playing the use of the river. of course it never hurts to issue a reminder to everyone having

a nice time don't go. don't go. see a nobody is going swimming to see how impressed they are with our authority. mind you there were one or two people who did look like they were getting ready to hold themselves it. gives the victims. so far a little being very quiet but things were about to get interesting. well everyone's been doing very well behaved down the river today but the guys here still needs training which means they need a victim. class mustn't. it's a little difficult to do a good impression of a drowning man in a highly buoyant suits but i did try my best and that river was no.

good no. luck. but fortunately i was only squashing around for a minute or two before i was free to safety. another soul saved by the close knit of a. rescue service. but definitely recommend a dry suit. but most people. i was happy to be out of the ocean but i was genuinely sad to be leaving class and . outside of moscow and st petersburg is the most modern and well maintained city

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calls. for a chance for you now with the palm of your. machine. called. the british and french leaders visit the libyan capital in a show of support for the new authorities that says ordinary people in tripoli still packing kilo gadhafi fear their devotion might cost them their lives. also russia says it's time to lift the u.n. imposed no fly zone over libya introduced to save civilians as it doesn't help those trapped and the last remaining gadhafi strongholds. a blow for the billionaire who turned to politics russia's third richest man sensation he quits as leader of a party he's headed for just three months. plus a piece of the long gone soviet union preserved norwegian land parties close up

team travels to a russian town on the spitzbergen archipelago. international news and comment live from my headquarters here in central moscow this is just past ten pm here and eight pm in tripoli where british prime minister david cameron has promised more financial aid to libya's new rulers is there with french president nicolas sarkozy in support of the regime there warplanes helped put in power but he's more of an ocean in tripoli is across the latest developments for us. french president carter causey and which prime minister david cameron to he leave there first of all to show their support for the country's new authorities for the national transitional council both political and financial since this week it comes just days before the old deliberates will be resumed and also you military support

not surprisingly that these two leaders have become the first to visit khadafi free libya these two countries france and britain have played a crucial role in the current leader the revolution because of course he has said that nato will continue coalmine levy and ministry facilities. here in leave it to the rebels take control over the whole of the country fighting still continues over at least for gadhafi stronghold including. the colonel's hometown city some six hundred kilometers east of the capital tripoli and bani walid and in the south called cheaply meanwhile russia's foreign ministry has announced today that they will call for a no fly zone to be lifted says things it's no longer am tied to protecting civilians just ahead of these two leaders visit here to tripoli they had of initial regional council mr fogg will tell you has pledged that both sikorsky and cameron

will be safe he's mentioned that because security situation in the country here in the capital tripoli remains a very tough very difficult very complicated and still while there still remain several pockets all over the leave here where still held by khadafi forces even in the capital it's not it's not equally well how by by the rebels and north all the districts here in libya supporting the new authorities here's my report about that . and months after tripoli fell into rebels hands those who backed the old regime remain defiant but feel full. in parts of the city the rebels triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened or did so somewhere else. who will do anything from our only moammar even if we have to give on lifes. seven support for the ousted leader it is solved once they see our camera yeah. like the one with

a weird coming out what it tells the camera why. it's the same situation with others two. hundred percent we don't want this revolution we don't know the rebels we want them to go away. we're from television. to tell it on camera no no thanks five p. in front of the camera they will send a bullet from a whirlpool the criminals you don't know them you call them the rebels hey guys do you remember the black guy he was arrested a few days ago after here appearing on t.v. don't do that eve lads new slogans new speeches. and the rebels were out celebrating again this week when they had of the national transitional council libya's new authority arise in the capital before a large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who's really.

those who don't support mr fogg those only you and who we used to see all across the city proudly waving green flags just weeks ago packing khadafi now trying not to leave their own backyards here there. would. be a very. tough it is effectively gone when you are thirty eight have settled down here in the capital tripoli people are chanting that is free country but it seems that there is at least one thing that still remains of all the their fear. one youngster finally agrees to talk. tripoli is now on the control of the national transitional council and we don't feel we have freedom to talk or to express an opinion if we see something in favor of gadhafi who can kill us and the rest of us

of course money are inferior. and nineteen year old says no many of his friends have been arrested recently for making critical statements about a new regime ironically we're talking just a kilometer away from one of his top secret jails for political prisoners known as abu salim. the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with killings to intimidate through fear of their hands are covered in blogs amnesty international has recently accused both dark his regime and the one which replaced it of committing war crimes including killings and torture of military prisoners and civilians these are being felt by a son here that's more his in-store roof an option r t tripoli libya. well let's discuss the story now with second child and he's a spokesman for british civilians for peace in libya. both sides of the

conflict are accused of human rights abuses book. the west spoke of saving civilians but now could have his hometown of sirte is under attack what's being done about civilian safety there. absolutely nothing has been done about civilian safety there but that is the whole point of this nato aggression on libya it's got nothing to do with protection of civilians like i've been saying for the last six months so if they're still standing with gadhafi when you will leave when i will leave what are what are frankly anyone with an ounce of humanity will see that is a heroic resistance something like something like fallujah nothing is being done actually when you will leave is being attacked from the air by nato and from the land by the rebels and by nato special forces as well so i mean you know so it's absolute right where you're implying there's nothing being done to protect the civilians as there's been nothing done to protect the civilians in tripoli now all due respect there's the russians today with maria finish who's done one of the i

think only reports about the actual reality of the situation in tripoli which is absolute regime of blood the fear and domination against anyone showing any sympathy with gadhafi the journalists go to absolutely go to follow dean and speak to the people they dare not go there because these are mass this strikes the biggest working class districts of tripoli just there alone for gadhafi so that visit by sarkozy and cameron today many would say symbolically suggest that tripoli is indeed safe and you would say otherwise the security situation is very different . absolutely i mean i just spoke to a young lady today in tripoli and even the reports there were there was and there was there was a firefight a committee go. on the edge of tripoli. the nato as head guy in the in the in the rebel slave council as i call it nato he said he said in his speech to the green square just the other day that the islamists will never take

over and that you know what he said he said to his rebels do not attack the women and children leave them out of this which is an admission from the m.d.c. is an admission from mr julio about his rebels have been attacking women and children or at what about the u.n. then it's convening in new york for the general assembly russia is calling for the lifting of the no fly zone in libya it seems there's no purpose anymore for that is there any chance that nato countries might actually do that would you see this campaign continuing. there's no way nato countries going to do that i mean the rebels have said several months ago if if nato stops air campaign they will lose within days and that's the case now so cosy and cameron go to benghazi and who stands behind them but if one really levy who is the arch friend zionists wherever you find this man you will find zionist and the west and the plans against the countries of the global south so really the resistance has nowhere ended up talk you can grandstand all they like a century on from one thousand eleven after the italian read conquest of libya

which someone like looked up who is the real great great patriot of the libyan resistance here come the former colonizers of north africa embraced and welcomed by the n.t. you see what did france do for algeria what did britain do to egypt what did italy and all these countries do to libya before i mean it's an incredible scandal and really anyone who thinks that the n.c.c. have anything to do with. really needs to think again overlooked for the countries of nato he did not ally with them to invite them to bomb his own country just finally your from british civilians for peace in libya i'd like to ask you now about the perception of david cameron and u.k. he's being greeted by crowds in libya what about his standing in the u.k. as a result of this. point i mean sarkozy cannot go to the bundle of power is on mr cameron you've got to watch your back because there's plenty of gangs in

london who are literally looking for your head and if not your head they're ready with grenades and guns this is reported in the press so cameron has got he's got a war on home but he should be concerned about so you're actually saying as was mentioned a while ago that there could be retaliate three attacks by terrorists but i have those who have it out is interested in the u.k. no this is a problem this is a homegrown problem that cameron has been absolutely you're right gadhafi is a person who is who support freedom fighters against the west before an unconventional means before across the world and he may do. i would do so again in terms of equalizing the conflict that's the only option that gadhafi really has no rights or cash thank you very much indeed took out a child and spokesman for political into peace in libya thank you thank you. well r.t. spoke to russia's envoy to the u.n. he says the libyan experience is helping determine position on syria and you can see the interview in full in twenty minutes from now but in the meantime here's a brief preview for me. if you want to put up experience the worst thing your dog

is the civil war and this is what happened let's face it concern is that any sanctions resolution. on syria in the security council might be seen by the structure of elements of syrian opposition as sort of encouragement. that something similar to what happened in libya may be happening in syria. that clearly extremely destructive consequences the worst in politics swearing to us that this was not their intention to use military force well. we have to remind the world statements and assurances from the various sorts when we're working on that resolution in libya which they were very quickly forgotten in the keeper of the bubble in libya. and you can watch the interview in for a little later here on r.t. the u.s. will deploy elements of a missile defense shield in poland by twenty eighteen

a deal was confirmed in a joint statement from the two countries it's part of a much debated nato plan to put land and sea based radars and interceptors in europe to counter possible missile attacks from iran and north korea that's now crossing our to get its can in our washington studio for more on this what is the significance of today's announcement in terms of the the overall progress of this missile shield plan. well bill we've got the announcement the police the missile defense agreement signed between the u.s. and poland in two thousand and eight and it's amending protocol of two thousand and ten has come into force this thursday as we speak it in vision is the deployment of a land base there some three system in poland and it's part of america's revamped plan to build a missile shield in europe with elements of it deployed in different countries in eastern europe just earlier this week an agreement was signed between in washington between romania and the us romania too will host

a very good land base there some three interceptors on wednesday to turkey and the us signed a similar agreement but that won't work that was about deployment of an early warning radar or keep the shills will be unfolding fairly close to russian borders needless to say there's always been an irritant in the relations between washington and moscow the new u.s. missile defense plan that we're talking about is a four stage plan where the first two stages in vision the installation of s m three interceptors if you will where capability the last two have higher capabilities the last two that especially bother the russians the more advanced ones because russians have a different and malice of the weapons that the so-called rogue states have and what they don't have and also doesn't want this is them to be eventually directed against russia the worth of words on missile defense has been going on for quite some time now with washington saying we need powerful missile interceptors against a possible attack from some dangerous they usually namely ran in north korea and also saying why would you need interceptors for weapons that those rogue states the

ones with russia and russia views america's missile defense plans as an attempt to breach that very precious parity principle that was said by the start treaty russians have been quite persistent for years you know saying it's ok it is not against those two together in this building missile shield in europe together and the response they get is always a no you know they say it is they say we will cooperate but not on equal terms that russians say then give us illegally by. guarantees that the defense system will not be used against us but besides the carpets the mere fact of this of the shield is now in question last thursday for the first time the u.s. has that it are you know advanced less than three blocks for an interceptor missile in the field to create a market and something from a few of the courage on the developments around the unfolding shield is there we should have put it very little here in the u.s. it receives very little coverage but really is of dollars are going to be spent on

it and it's a fact witness is still arguable the federation of american scientists recently come up with a report that calls for a review of america's missile defense plan based on the inconsistences that they see between its goals and means that reports that were touched upon very interesting points well for one it's the effectiveness of those interceptors is hard you pull from a scientific point of view and be there it could push the russians and possibly the chinese to try and restore some kind of balance by arming themselves more going to thanks very much indeed for that's not going to live in our washington studio. or the news now russia's political season may have only just got underway but the first scandal has already arrived the party run by russia's third richest man has collapsed listen three months after he became its leader all of his country and culture has the details for us from. the impishness plan of the right cause party

which was to gains of fifteen percent of the vote clashed over some far more modest political for costs and we elegies now the brokerage has left the party will hardly make it in to do much but we all have to understand that for all of his very good in p.r. and himself in dealing with john lewis and this is what we witnessed today we all remember that he is not afraid to be are we remember how he made it to they had lines international headlines in two thousand and seven when he was arrested by french police in core chevelle on suspicion that he arranged trusted to use for russia's border guards there and we remember what it adds up like added up like the french authorities officially apologized before him during an official visit in two thousand and nine and has brought her of yourselves up to date i may make one microstate backwards he said but then i will make a long jump forward just wait and see a very bold step for a person who's only making first steps on

a political arena but what we're seeing is actually cuomo clashes in the ranks of a political force and sadly this has become somewhat of a back tradition with russia's right wing forces and now that robber of leaves the ranks of the party's no longer its leader it's not clear what part of the electorate the right cause will be you rate at all and secondly it's interesting what will happen with all the money which. was invested into these project we are talking about some thirty million dollars. of such a day that he'll be doing all he has passed to pull the money off of the party now that he's left and he'll be forming a new political force well we'll wait and see what will be the future of yet another movement all these billion or turn politician. by the way we've got more on this and all the other stories we're covering on screen at the moment on our web site r t v dot com and they're online at the moment for example you can find out about the official who rules out and engaged handbrake as the cause of last week's

plane crash that killed nearly all of a top russian ice hockey team you can read the story of many theories that have been put forward and dismissed by the experts. hard to swallow and the garment worth thousands of dollars is found in the stomach of a man suspected of theft at a spanish restaurant and find out more at r.t. or called. no it seems sometimes you have to leave russia if you really want to get to know it better and this week a special series of our russia close up reports come from outside the country from the norway's spitzbergen archipelago russians developed a coal mining community there during the soviet period and there's a summer boy who reports twenty years after the u.s.s.r. ceased to exist and many there are still living an old soviet dream. the cluster of

violence between the devil and the deep blue sea they used to sarve bergen archipelago was a lot like puerto rico for the u.s. not entirely its own not food for in the form of olive pools between north america and western europe and as many hold a future base for the russian advance in the arctic. just a few words about this monument in. their lives and of course. of course all of this. the most western interest this morning meant is a testament to the dail soviet ambitions the town of barons work once a flourishing mining community is in a serious thing to. get behind this appealing facade one can also see a freshly painted writing on the wall that russians on a pleading in fact their back. it's a russian birthright to be. the second summer in

a row the. standing watch visit bergen decorating this kindergarten picture of russia as an arc is not to project an image of an unshakable state emerging from dire straits of history in a time that still experiences difficulties with running water and electricity choice of priorities would have been questionable if it wasn't geo politically timely. there was a time when the soviet union was feared and respected. russia should all superstition itself as a strong state or people who visit should feel like they've stood russian soil. technically that's already the case russian settlements and bergen have greener grass because of the several loads of black soil that was brought here from siberia in soviet times illegally this terror treat the lungs to norway and nine hundred twenty agreement guarantees its signature is the right to conduct.