the morning here in moscow glad to have you with us this is r.t. on to our top story now in libya gadhafi forces have resumed their attack on the besieged town of bani walid just a day after they were repelled by loyalists to troops fighting has also flared in the ousted leader's home city of syria meanwhile a khadafi spokesman accused nato of backing the rebels and providing them with ammunition. least three hundred fifty civilians have been killed and seven hundred injured in the overnight shelling of syria with the alliance denying a chance this comes amid the recent visits of leaders to the war stricken country assistance in protecting the population but as more and more reports. have a different agenda on their minds. david cameron and nick the survey their handiwork the most senior leaders to visit tripoli since that country's began the invention in libya they say is not yet.

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 the strongholds not crazy. to paraphrase. some civilians are more equal than others nato insists that targeted attacks but that all reports of m.t.c. reprisals against suppose it could be supported fairly there are real problems on the ground is a legacy of such a conflict that you will have human rights abuses taking both sides. the national transitional council have promised to hold their own forces to account and i think that that is a process. that we will see from now it doesn't seem to be happening yet the

african union edges that 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 all guilty of unlawful killings and torture it takes pains to point out that gadhafi forces committed some terrible atrocities but also documents a brutal settling of scores by rebel forces including the lynchings of gadhafi soldiers meanwhile gadhafi is home town is one of the last holdouts a letter to pour to me from the colonel himself begs the u.n. security council to protect sirte from being pounded by nato to tackle what it describes as crimes by the forces of the new government civilian deaths seemingly assured. cameron and sarkozy were quick to

condemn gadhafi 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 indicates the national oil corporation in particular getting the oil flowing again. london. with libya's national transitional council. the united nations are. reports now on the first steps to rebuilding the country. one of the things that the new resolution envisions 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 concentrate on efforts to undertake inclusive political dialogue promote national

recalls alleviation and generally help the government to leave the organizer elections and write a new constitution and that kind of u.n. participation is welcomed by all members this is something that washes and going to the united nations was talking about saying it's a u.n. responsibility to help create some kind of a law and order system that would put an end to the chaos there as a result of the failure to properly implemented which really is my resolution aiming at protecting civilians the country found itself in a full scale civil war with civilians suffering 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 click forward by russia and a provision that received the support of all members take a listen. to in libya by channeling the situation into political diplomatically and it's important the council considers lifting a new fly zone over libya particularly as this new fly zone is being violated

arbitrarily and used the new reality on the ground maintaining the new fly zone no longer makes sense its lifting must be part of the international community's efforts to address the aftermath of the libyan crisis. the resolution would also ease economic sanctions imposed on libya and make sure it cans of billions of dollars of assets frozen by the security council in february and march are soon available to and for the benefit of the people of libya general assembly on friday gave libya's new when siege to the national transitional council which toppled ramadan although not yet holding the whole of libya the rebels nevertheless represent their. entry at the u.n. general assembly next week as with the arms embargo imposed on libya there are 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 leave you to protect u.n. pairs personnel diplomats and humanitarian staff but the essence of the french

british proposal with regards to lifting the arms embargo is yet quite vague so there might be some tension over the issue there anyway when it comes to concerns over the proliferation of arms in libya 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 the view that are up for grabs is it's really worrying. left behind are brimming with weapons and the rebels have helped themselves those weapons mean 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 unfolding in libya the weapons will inevitably end up in the hands of extremists and terrorists and not just weapons but maybe of nuclear materials that libya possibly has to. what has it been

a 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 center of the struggle months. later in the program we speak to a palestinian politician who thinks that her people should get fair treatment from the international community. ethnic tension on the border with a breakaway kosovo intensifies following friday's takeover of two disputed border posts kosovo police with the assistance of nato led forces have placed customs officers out checkpoints previously under ethnic serb control locals have tried to prevent what they called the unilateral actions of kosovo's albanians are reports from near one of the seized checkpoints. well where one of the border crossings you

renny and the road leading up to it remain bloke's by the protesters now we actually can't get too much play so when you go up to the front of that cross thing you stop by the bubble and we can see some of the k. full forces on the ground that we saw helicopters coming across and. you like helicopters dropping off some of the police forces to these crossings also the albanian cos the police they've only actually got to. each of the checkpoints at the moment and that only for 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. now amid concerns repeat of what we saw in july when violent clashes over the course the government making of me to try and take this place resulted in the death of a policeman is actually being relatively quiet here what we've seen is a huge number of serbia and i think it's turning out at these barricades that what

we've got at the moment is the standoff situation is being called a war of nose because of both the checkpoints at the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the case full force is at the actual crossing themselves as the no one wants to make can be the case they want to make a move to break up the barricades to fair spot violence and the seven protest is exactly the same reasons they will. prevail in violence so we had the un 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. artie's of sarah first vera now while covering the story she was also able to catch up with serbia as top negotiator in the e.u. mediated talks on kosovo who's also been of the disputed points. the fun of it she is now calling on both sides to resume discussions and has shared his views on

a possible solution to the problem. wrote to full normalization off our relationship with cristina and of course that normalization. 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 to 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 is to death in this attempt and they breached their own mandate they breached their status their position toward kosovo and serbia and we are really satisfied we do small and it's against security council resolution for all forty four it's against the mandate of ulick's it's again six points by and by bank you move which was supported by security council states that dos two gates should

be different and yachters and they should have only international custom presidents once you put custom officers then you will put a flag then you will put the cult of arms then you will put a so-called cross all laws and then people who live here will be circled by something that looks like a state and they simply cannot accept it so there has to be a different solution for the specific situation. there's a lot more to come this hour including down to earth answers to a very basic question. what's. not be able to. live like that since creation. so you wouldn't have a job if. we hit the streets of new york to find out how much people are feeling the pinch of. the northernmost. tourists are flocking to

a surprising relic of the soviet. miles from the north pole. on a trip to spitzbergen. where twenty years. of life is still going strong. in their worlds are. those. who sued. has become a tourist site for those over. the special edition. the palestinian president has vowed to seek full state recognition at the u.n. security council next week mahmoud abbas has also stressed that the move it was not meant to isolate or deal with real that's despite a u.s.

promised 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 paula slayer has more. wanted to meet us here in one of israel's bustling cities he wants to talk but not. where he's seen as a troublemaker people are afraid to talk because of the talk there for. the for all of but beneath won't be shut up he says he's tired of being used as a pawn by the government fifty 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 way spanks his home and now years on he wants to leave but can't because his property has harmed in value since he bought it so. from the said no or because the government doesn't want the people.

who have agreement with the who have to show that it's full of people who doesn't want to live b.b.c.'s one in two states it's one town but the government does everything it can to keep them in most of the barren and difficult but that hasn't stopped. in the long. constructs and has begun on more than two thousand projects here in the west bank community polities get extra money from the ministry of education for extra teachers or extra money from the ministry of infrastructure for more interest means less payment by the settlers 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 math the answers brought them onto the

streets in numbers never seen before in israel's history but now twenty are who has no plans to leave the statements the goddess of what it does to his economy alter the peace process there is no. when political debate in israel about whether it's right or wrong just doing it and we know about many certain lands and the eastern part of the fence where you have a lot of arguments which are empty as palestinians head off to the united nations the israeli army digs in around the city and with them in the way the prospects of peace seem as likely as binney was actually leaving the west bank policy r.t. . palestinian politician. says palestine deserves recognition after years of being under israeli occupation so a sense of sorrow and loss not station and anger that others instantly get recognition instantly those who want. and who haven't lived for sixty three

years under brutal military occupation to get recognition get statehood get support get an understanding from the international community and yet we are constantly preventing from getting these things by the israeli occupation by an american administration that leisurely pace to see imperatives of justice i think it's about time that palestine joins the community of nations as an equal and there's no longer treated as a subhuman species. euro zone of finance ministers have decided to wait until october before deciding on whether to issue another cash bail out to greece at an informal meeting in poland or they say athens is not doing enough to cut its massive debt greece was scheduled to receive the eight billion euro loan at the end of september a demonstration time to coincide with the talks tens of thousands of trade union activists from across europe take to the streets they are angry on what they see as

no wages and widespread to be done and seize the last few months have been plagued by indecision among youth leaders on how to deal with greece's debt which is now one and a half times the size of its economy but it's not alone the global financial squeeze is being felt everywhere as honest found out in the work. as the global economy continues to struggle poverty levels continue to rise are you feeling the effects this week let's talk about that. well let me see i moved on to manhandle back to my house in central jersey which was i abandoned two years ago. been out of work so you know 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 than it is getting what's actually were like big manifests three thousand people manifesting because it's too expensive they're living in israel that's baloney what's below the poverty is on the rise you don't believe it is what's poverty. 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 by. so why would people many facts. such baloney sell newspapers you wouldn't have a job if this didn't happen have you felt the impact at all. yes because i work with the not for profit organization that takes care of women but we're seeing lots more women who don't have a choice when you don't what do you think would happen if a middle class disappeared. i don't think that's ever going to happen i think things are going to get more expensive and there's not going be any more american

dream there's no more white picket fence and not everyone to be able to own their own home whether or not you personally feel the effects of a rising totty level the bottom line is it seems like this trend isn't going to reverse anytime soon. and coming up later this hour max and stacy take a short detour and a look at how reflects life even in the financial world. alex schaffer 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 that he's anti-capitalist and kept on pointing out that the police visited alex shaffer to discuss this art that was so disturbing and i reminded me of a story that pablo picasso's 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. if you are 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 baron's bergen the arctic circle which lies on a norwegian archipelago called spitsbergen a vibrant a soviet settlement a groove 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

report socks on the boyko finds out how an old soviet dream still provides a means of survival and is also helping preserve the past. it's the 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 guiding principle here is the worse the better local like to tell the story about back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were they also an express lane. and how prosperous this was well times have. changed when they saw a black still attracting a region tourists or barons word i would then cons watch native cash that's why while. our goal is common as was uncovered here

a few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint the bin you and the barons 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 hot tourist destination for 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 this theory of types of a bygone era we have some problems with. those but now we have a new room. minus. the work. from . back in the nine hundred eighty s. daryn's work was a burgeoning mining community that the soviet union was determined to maintain at

all costs strategically located halfway between north america and western europe the spitzbergen archipelago is part of norway with a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the. cold war it served as the us is sars west and most outposts now it's one of the soviet union slask authentically preserved relics. it is essentially a picture of what would have been to the soviet union if it was cut off from any financial support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russians trying. to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia still maintaining a coal mine here but in trance of profit is far behind local souvenir shops so meet me my billet is a big hit the defunct aren't curtain still helps keep the money flowing guys it's the russians when you're. playing. your

local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts on not very popular with tourists if you come into a very authentic place like bond sport should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the letter you know authentic tradition here. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be honest the thing to 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 die repertoire it left the audience called all they wanted to hear was a song come from the familiar. sound like a marcy dance floor been broken out because. our special coverage from spitsbergen but you can still find the reports we had on the westernmost

outpost of the soviet union and. also online. a us a couple are found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter of. and the latest of developments in the investigation of the tragic plane crash that took the lives of one of russia's top ice hockey teams a locomotive jaroslav will find out more at our team dot com. is he it's. easy to. see. she says it's. now a look at the week's main financial news from around the world with max kaiser and

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the. meanwhile there's another. for recognition with palestine president waiting for a u.n. vote on statehood despite the u.s. promised to veto it that says some israeli west bank settlers say they're ready to leave the area but the government won't block them. and in kosovo a standoff continues between police and ethnic serbs angry that pristina has taken control of two border posts blocking serbian airports. there we can cause a report is next with max and stacey looking at what the u.s. government knew about mortgage fraud before the entire house of cards fell down.