khadafi loyalists continued to put up strong resistance and claim nato have killed hundreds of civilians in recent bombing raids this comes as it would be as a former rebels are granted a seat at the un where talks of the move to post-war reconstruction. saying with the un as palestine and prepares its bid to become a full member r.t. will exactly israeli settlers who say they are forced to stay in the west bank against their will. and didn't cause a standoff continues between the police and a local ethnic serbs angry that pristina has taken control of through border posts blocking serbian ports.

and broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this is r t i'm sean thomas and we're glad to have you with us on to our top story in libya gadhafi forces have resumed their attack on the besieged town of bani walid just a day after they were repelled by loyalists troops fighting has also flared in the ousted leader's home city of syria meanwhile a gadhafi spokesman accused nato of backing of the rebels and providing them with ammunition iraqi men said at least three hundred fifty civilians have been killed and seven hundred injured in overnight shelling of syria with the alliance denying the accusations this comes amid the recent visits of e.u. leaders to the war stricken country value assistance in protecting the population but as more and it reports europe's top brass have

a different agenda on their minds. david cameron and nicolas sarkozy surveyed their handiwork the most senior leaders to visit tripoli since their countries began the nato intervention in libya they say their work is not yet. until a billion. he's right civilians are still being killed but now that gadhafi is virtually powerless the people increasingly doing the killing are national transitional council forces together with nato as they attack bani walid and other strongholds on that cameron and sarkozy are silent to paraphrase george orwell in animal farm some civilians are more equal than others nato insists they're targeted attacks but there are reports of m.t.c. reprisals against suppose it could be supporters clearly there are real problems on

the ground as a legacy of such a conflict will have human rights abuses taking on both sides the rebels the national transitional council have promised to hold their own forces to account and i think that is a process that we will see from now it doesn't seem to be happening yet the african union and edges the transitional forces are hunting down and killing black africans on the assumption that gadhafi recruited them as mercenaries. that's borne out by reports by amnesty international which says the rebels are guilty of unlawful killings and torture it takes pains to point out they could ask the forces committed some terrible atrocities but also documents of brutal struggling of schools by rebel forces including the lynchings of the soldiers meanwhile kidnappings hometown is one of the last holdouts a letter purportedly from the colonel himself begs the u.n.

security council to protect sirte from. being pounded by nato and to tackle what it describes as crimes by the forces of the new government civilian deaths are seemingly assured. cameron and sarkozy were quick to condemn get daffy the killing innocent libyans in the lead up to nato is no fly zone being imposed but no such rhetorics being aimed at the n.t. sea in fact it's quite the opposite britain sponsored un resolution to ease sanctions against libya and to gauge the national oil corporation in particular getting the oil flowing again nor emmet london. with libya's national transitional council now granted a seat at the united nations are she's going to town reports now on the first steps to rebuilding the country. one of the things that the new resolution invasions is a special u.n.

support mission in libya that will be set up for an initial three months to help in what they claim it insists is essentially a political operation it would give advice on restoring security but would cost in trade on efforts to undertake inclusive political dialogue promote national reconciliation and generally help the government in libya organize elections and great a new constitution and that kind of u.n. participation is welcomed by all members this is something that russia's ambassador to the united nations was talking about saying it's the u.n. responsibility to help create some kind of a law and order system that will put an end to the chaos there as a result of the failure to properly implement the previous one resolution aiming at protecting civilians the country found itself in a full scale civil war with civilians suffering most also the resolution expresses the security council's determination to lift the no fly zone over the levy an airspace in the very near future well that's a provision called forward by russia and

a provision that we seek support of members take a listen. in libya rechanneling the situation into political diplomatically and it's important to cancel considers listing a new fly zone over libya particularly as this no fly zone has been silence is arbitrary. and used a new reality on the ground maintaining the new fly zone no longer makes sense it's lifting must be part of the international community's efforts to address the aftermath of the libyan crisis so. the resolution would also ease economic sanctions imposed on libya and make sure it pains of billions of dollars of assets frozen by the security council in february and march are soon available through and for the benefit of the people of libya general assembly on friday gave lidia's new one seat to the national transitional council which toppled ramadan although not yet holding the whole of lead here the rebels nevertheless represent their. at the u.n. general assembly next week as with the arms embargo imposed on libya there or uncertainties

whether everyone at the u.n. security council is on the same page here russia called for removing a ban on small arms supplies to levy or to protect u.n. personnel personnel diplomats and humanitarian staff but the essence of the french british proposal with regards to lifting the arms embargo is get quite big so there might be some tension over the issue there anyway when it comes to concerns over the proliferation of arms in the and its potential impact on regional peace everyone seems to be on the same page and the security council has clearly expressed those concerns the amount of weapons in libya that are all for grabs is it's really worrying more put. the left behind are only dreaming with the actions and the rebels have helped themselves those weapons need very well wind up in the hands of people who have other agendas then defeating could offie that's the kind of concern that russia has raised on a number of occasions saying in a chaos like the one folding in libya the weapons will inevitably end up in the

hands of extremists and terrorists and not just weapons but maybe nuclear materials that lead to possibly has to. he's going to church again reporting for us there now what has it been speedy acceptance for libya's former rebels has been a long journey for others stay with us to find out how people in palestine feel about the un's recognition of libya's national transitional council. the sense of sorrow and loss frustration and anger. later in the program we speak to a palestinian a politician who thinks that her people should get the fairer treatment from that the international community. ethnic attention on serbia's a border with a breakaway kosovo intensifies following friday's takeover of it to disputed border posts course of police with the assistance of nato led forces have placed customs officers at checks points previously under ethnic serb control locals have tried to

prevent what they called the unilateral action of kosovo's albanians artie's sara furthur reported from near one of the seized checkpoints. where one is the key to border crossings you're ready and the roads leading up to it remain bloke's by the protest is now we actually can't get much closer when you go up to the front of that cross thing you're stopped by the pub who are we can see some of the case full full says on the ground that we saw helicopters coming across and i saw the you like helicopters dropping off some of the police forces to these crossings also the albanian calls the police they paid me actually got to each and each of the checkpoints at the moment and. the time being in an observatory role now of course the plan is for them to eventually take over control and that's what much of this just best so now amid concerns repeat of what we saw in july when violent clashes

over the course the government can only to try and take place resulted in the death of a policeman is actually being relatively quiet here what we've seen is a huge number of serbian i think serbians turning out at these barricades look what we've got at the moment is a standoff situation it's being called a war of nerves because the basic checkpoints of the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the capel forces at the actual crossings themselves have been no one wants to make it be the case for forces they want to make need to break up the barricades the fierce golfing violence and the serbian protest is for exactly the same reasons they they will be. provoking violence so we have the u.n. security council calling an emergency meeting at the request of serbia and russia and no final decisions were really made for not there were a lot of countries that were unwilling really to make a statement take a verse these control points going ahead despite the warnings from belgrade i'm from russia that this could really lead to further agitation. r.t.

sarah furthur reporting there now while covering the story she was also able to catch up with serbia's top negotiator in the e.u. mediated talks on kosovo who's also at the disputed checkpoints boys love the fun of it is now calling on both sides to resume discussions and has shared his views on a possible solution to the problem road to full normalization of far relationship with krishna and of course their terrible ization. doesn't mean by any way our recognition of independence of course so we believe that the only way out is through a dialogue actually through an agreement how these two crossings to gates will look like because right now what christina did was a one sided attempt to change the reality on the ground which is against all the agreements before the ulick's assisted him in the attempt and they breached their own mandate they breached their status neutral position toward the costs of war in serbia and we are really satisfied we do small and it's against security council

resolution for forty four it's against the mandate if you like six against six points going by the bank you move which was supported by the security council and the state did to those two gates should be different than the others and they should have only international custom presence once you put their custom officers then you will put a flag then you will put the coat of arms then you will push the so-called cross the laws and then people who live here will be circled by something that looks like a state they simply cannot accept so there has to be a different solution for the specific situation. and there's a lot more to come this hour including down to earth answers to a very basic question. what's probably. not be able to get the basics in life ok but it's been like that since creation is it worth the bed it's probably about the same as it always was so loose made with you wouldn't

have a job it is that happened we hit the streets of new york to find out how much its people are feeling the pinch of rising property poverty. and to check out the world's northernmost monument to lenin tourists are flocking to a surprising relic of the soviet past. decades back. one thousand miles from the north pole. the team is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen on a good time ago. where twenty years after the u.s. was ours collapsed the suv between life is still going strong. when the world's northernmost statue of lenin presides over a goes. to see it has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war in the style. of the close up special edition on our t.v.

. for the palestinian president has vowed to seek full state recognition and the u.n. security council next week mahmoud abbas has also stressed that the move was not meant to isolate or d. legitimize israel that's despite a u.s. promise to veto the bed meanwhile in israel settlers in the west bank say they would want to leave but the government keeps putting obstacles to prevent this from happening plus there has more. he was wanted to meet us here in one of israel's bustling cities he wants to talk but not in his own social meant where he's seen as a troublemaker and they are afraid. because of the thought before him away from the drug life there for me from a view of pinney won't be shut up he says he's tired of being used as a pawn by the government thirty years ago the state made it easy for him to buy a house he didn't have the money so they offered him

a cheap one the only catch it was in a with bank settlement now years on he wants to leave but can't because his property has hard in value since he bought it for. help. from a certain no or because the government doesn't want the people. there west bank of the ones who have agreement with the he will have to show that it's full of people and the people of beza want. peace is one in two states has pointed out that the government does everything it can to keep him in most of the land barren and difficult about how. honest you know no constitution has begun on more than two thousand projects here in the west bank and what is a pilot is get extra money from the ministry of education for extra teachers or extra money from the ministry of infrastructure for more infrastructure means less payment by the circus these were the biggest incentives that are not written

anywhere in the book istomin suggests prime minister netanyahu spends nearly a billion dollars a year just to keep the settlements going but that has to come from somewhere and tens of thousands of israelis did the maps the answers brought them onto the streets in numbers never seen before in israel's history but netanyahu has no plans to leave a statement regardless of what it does to his economy alter the peace process there is no political deal. these are about whether it's right or wrong doing it and we know about many certain events and the eastern part of the fence where you have a lot of partners which are empty as palestinians head off to the united nations the israeli army digs in around the city and with him in the way the prospects of peace seem as unlikely as binney rise actually leaving the west bank policy r.t. class. palestinian politician or rai says that palestine

deserves recognition after years of being under israeli occupation. sense of sorrow and loss statement and anger that others instantly get recognition and sternly those who weren't even as prepared as we are and who haven't lived for sixty three years under brutal oppression to get recognition get statehood get support get an understanding from the international community and we have to constantly prevent them from getting these things by the israeli occupation by an american administration that really hates to see. justice i think it's about palestine the community of nations as an equal and there's no longer. a subhuman piece of. euro zone finance ministers have decided to wait until october before deciding on whether to issue another cash bail out to greece have an informal

meeting in poland and they say athens is not doing enough to cut its massive debt greece was scheduled to receive eight billion euro alone at the end of september a demonstration timed to coincide with the talks all tens of thousands of trade union activists from across europe take to the streets they are angry at what they see as low wages and widespread began to seize the last few months have been plagued by indecision and readers on how to deal with greece's debt which is now one of the times the size of its economy but it's not alone the global financial squeeze is being felt everywhere as we harvest found out in new york. as the global economy continues to struggle poverty levels continue to rise are you feeling it let's talk about that. well let me see i moved out of manhattan

back to my house in central jersey which was i abandoned two years ago. when an out of work. so basically i'm just living a day by day this is the wrong place to talk about poverty because here everything is so expensive so. it's weird but how is it in israel we have a lot of people but it's ok you feel like it's getting worse there it is getting worse actually where the. big manifests three thousand people. because it's too expensive living in israel that's what's below probably is on the rise believe it is. well not be able to get the basics in life ok it's been like that since creation is it worse or better it's probably about the same as it always was so you're not buying. so why would people manufacture such baloney sell newspapers you wouldn't have a job this is to happen have you felt the impact at all. yes because i work with

the for profit organization that takes care of women and we're seeing lots more women who don't have insurance you know what do you think would happen if a middle class disappeared. but i think that's ever going to happen i think things are going to get more expensive and there's not to be any more american dream there's no more white picket fence and not everyone will know whether or not you personally feel the effects of a rising property level the bottom line is it seems like this trend isn't going to reverse anytime soon. and coming up max and stacey take a short look at how reflects life even in the financial world. alex shaffer mentioned in his own interview that it's not about people burning down the banks but the banks burning the infrastructure of our banking system of burning

our money and destroying our money and also the other thing he points out he alludes to the fact that because the police visited alex shaffer this is proof. but he's anti-capitalist and kept on pointing out that the police visited alex shaffer to discuss this art that was so disturbing and it reminded me of a story that pablo picasso told about his famous artwork guernica guernica being of course the town in boss country spain which was carpet bombed by the italians and germans at the behest of the fascists in spain a few years later he's in paris and he's visited by the nazi occupying officers and pointing to a poster of guernica the nazi officer said did you do that pablo picasso responded no you did it. and of course you can catch max and stacey and of their musings on the financial

world in their entirety next hour right here on r.t. . now if you're curious as to how it felt to live in the u.s.s.r. there is one place where the soviet spirit is frozen in time and it's not even in russia it's the town of bar and simpered in the arctic circle which lives on a norwegian archipelago called spitsbergen a vibrant soviet settlement grew there after mining rights were granted in the one nine hundred twenty s. but when communism collapsed so did the community in the third of her special reports on a boy called finds out how an old soviet dream still provides a means of survival and is also helping preserve the past. it's a legacy no one should be proud of heaps of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape building stilton over their foundation pipes spewing black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the spitzbergen

archipelago don't make a pretty picture the big guiding principle here is the worst the downer lot of life to tell the story back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were also looks. at how prosperous this stuff was well times have changed when the soviet lag is still attracting a ridge interest to bear and work and. watch. that's why when. our dollars common it was uncovered here a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint it in you and put it at barron's work central square communism have long stopped being a lifetime goal but is rapidly becoming the means of livelihood the rusty soviet heritage has suddenly become a hard to reach destination for the older generation of western tourists and while the tour guides are too young to have any memories of the cold war they're more

than happy to cash in on the steerage types of a bygone era we have some problems with. the use of the wrists mubarak. goes but now we have a new roof. highness. from . back in the nineteen eighties there was a burgeoning mining community there the soviet union was determined to maintain at all costs to digitally located halfway between north america and western europe bergen archipelago is part of norway but the special status that allows other countries to sign up industrial base is here in the mid. love the cold war it served as the use of stars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union slask preserved relics. that is essentially a picture of the soviet union if it was really financial support for two decades

it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russian dragons to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia is still maintaining a coal mine here but and chance of profit is far behind local seventy or shops so between married bill it is a big hit they get banks are in kirton still helps keep the money flowing guys it's the russians when you're sure what's your campaign rivals all week or on the ticker on your. local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure after more than standards get these madonnas asian efforts are not very popular with tourist operators if you come into a very authentic place like bond spoke i think it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the little you know authentic tradition here. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be on the fact that change even for the better is not always

good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they try to add morning russian songs to directors who are the audience called the wanted to hear was a song that. sounds like an artsy dance for kids going out to calgary. and that wraps up our special coverage from spitsbergen but you can still find of this and other reports we had on one of our most extreme posts of the soviet union r.t. dot com also on my. us a couple i found guilty of involuntary manslaughter of their adopted son from russia. and of the latest developments into the investigation of the tragic plane crash that took the lives of one of the russia's top ice hockey teams locomotive got a slog we'll find out more at our team dot com. is

he. now does it for this is it news blog but i'll be back in just under three minutes with a recap of your headlines stay with archie. like

millions of americans i've lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many it's not just about them it's about me too. i mean i am proud man now that he should. stand up. and say that. and the. olympics. needed. now. since this is my film i get the last word

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