gadhafi loyalists continue to push strong resistance and claim nato has a killed hundreds of civilians in recent bombing raids is comes as libya's former rebels are granted a seat at the u.n. where the talks move to post or reconstruction. staying with the u.n. palestine is preparing its bid to become a full member despite washington promising to be go through the security council this as some israeli settlers on the west bank say they're ready to go but claim that they are forced to stay against their will. and in kosovo a standoff continues between police and the local ethnic serbs are angry pristina has taken control of two border posts blocking serbian imports.

and broadcasting live a direct from the heart of moscow this is r.t. certainly glad to have you with us to our top story in libya and take it off the 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 i could offer you spokesmen accused nato of backing the rebels and providing them with any mission even though he said at least three hundred fifty civilians have been killed and seven hundred injured in overnight shelling of syria within the alliance denying the accusation this comes amid the recent visits of leaders to the war stricken country going assistance in protecting the population but as laura and it reports europe's top

brass have a different agenda all their mothers. 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 done . and kill civilians. and. 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 gadhafi 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 whose it could be supporters clearly there are real problems on

the ground the legacy of such a conflict will have human rights abuses taking on both sides the rebels national transitional council have promised to hold their own fighters to account and i think that is a process that we will see how 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 there could be forces committed some terrible atrocities but also documents of brutal circling 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. it's from being pounded by nato and has 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 gadhafi that killing innocent libyans in the lead up to nato has no fly zone being imposed but no such rhetorics being aimed at the n.c.c. in fact it's quite the opposite britain's sponsored u.n. resolution to ease sanctions against libya indicates the national oil corporation in particular getting the oil flowing again nor am it landed. with libya's national transitional council now granted a seat of the united nations is going to try to count reports now on the first steps to rebuilding the country. one of the things that the new resolution

envisions is a special you want support mission in libya that will be set up for an initial three months to help in what the climate 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 reconciliation and generally help the government in libya organize elections and write a new constitution and that kind of u.n. principle asian is welcomed by all members this is something that washes and want for 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 previously way 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 legal airspace in

the very near future well that's a provision put forward by russia and a provision that received the support of our members take a listen. in libya chumming 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 arbitrary now and use the new reality on the ground and instilling 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 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 the general assembly on friday gave libya's new when seats to the national transitional council which topple moammar gadhafi although not yet controlling the whole of levy or the rebels nevertheless represent their country at the u.n.

general assembly next week as well 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 levy or to protect u.n. person 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 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 it's extremely worrying are left behind are only brimming with weapons 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 offer 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 nuclear materials that libya possibly has to. what has 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 sense of sorrow and lots of space for anger later in the program we speak to a palestinian politician who thinks that her people should get fairer treatment from the international community. ethnic tension on serbia's border with breakaway kosovo intensifies following friday's that takeover of two disputed border posts because of a police with the assistance of nato led forces have placed customs officers at checkpoints previously under ethnic serbs control locals have tried to prevent what

they call the unilateral action of kosovo's albanians parties or further reports from one of the seas checkpoints. you can see the sign put up by full force it's a warning to the ethnics the protesters ok for the nato peacekeeping mission has been working here at the border point with you like they go there both wire fences that they go to sandbags as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricade of the border point not so many of them and they've made it very very clear that if anyone tries to remove the barricades that they've made that they're willing to defend and there'll be lots more people coming to the defense as well to take a view of these control points they see the essex our population here in the north as an extension of kristina's control over the disputed territory now amid concerns

repeat of what we saw in july when. over the course the government making of to try and take place resulted in the death of the policeman is actually. what he had seen as a huge number of the serbian. turning out. what we've got at the moment it's a standoff situation is. worth knows because the checkpoints at the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the capel forces at the actual crossing. the no one wants to make me and although the words being quite diplomatic from what we've heard of a side those calls for calm and for peace but of course the actions the scene quite different and there still seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved now while reporting there on the border are also caught up with serbia's top negotiators mediated talks on kosovo who's also. points of stuff and over now calling on both sides to resume discussions and has shared his views on

a possible solution to the problem. wrote to full normalization of our 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 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 ulick's assisted them in this attempt and they breached their own mandate they breached their status neutral position toward kosovo and serbia and we are really dissatisfied with the smoke and it's against security council resolution twelve forty four it's against the mandate of us it's again six points by and by bunky move which was supported by the security council and their land states that those two gates should be different than the others and that they should have only

international custom presence and once you put their custom officers then you will put a flag then you will put the call to arms then you will push the so-called costs of 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 probably. not be able to make them ok it's been like that since creation is it worse or better it's probably about the same as it always was so let's face it you wouldn't have a job if you didn't have an. answer we have the streets of new york to find out how much it's people are feeling the pinch of the rising poverty. and to check out the world's northernmost a monumental one and tourists are flocking to

a surprising relic of the soviet past. one thousand miles from the north pole. the team is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen on capella ago. where twenty years after the u.s. was sars the suv between life is still going strong. in the world's northernmost statue of lenin presides over and those. who sued. has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war in the style. of the close up special edition. of palestinian president has vowed to seek full state recognition at the un security council next week mahmoud abbas has also stressed that the move was not meant to isolate or deal or demise israel that is despite a u.s.

promise to veto the bid 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 has more. he was wanted to meet us here in one of israel's busting cities he wants to talk but not in his own social mint where he's seen as a troublemaker they are afraid that broke because of the call for him away from the drug like the from me for my job but beneath it 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 point the only catch it was in a whisper and sit home and now years on he wants to leave but can't because his property has hovered in value since he bought it so. was going through hell. for so no war because the government doesn't want people. to

have agreement with the who have the. poor and the people doesn't want to live he says one in two states is want to help but the government does everything it can to keep him in most of the land barren and difficult. that has come. in a few months ago constructs and has begun on more than two thousand projects here in the west bank policies get extra money from the ministry of education for extra teachers or extra money from the ministry of infrastructure for more intersection or 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 math the answers for them onto the streets in

numbers never seen before in israel's history but netanyahu has no plans to leave the statements the goddess of what it does to his economy alter the peace process there is no political the. the thing is rob whether it's right or wrong doing it and we know about many settlements and the eastern part of the fence where you have a lot of arguments which are empty as kind of skin your head off to the united nations israeli army digs in around decision and with women the way across space of peace seems as unlikely as binney rise actually leaving the west bank policy r.t. class of a. palestinian politician who. says that palestine deserves recognition after years of being under israeli occupation. sense of sorrow and loss not just based on anger that others instantly recognize instantly those who aren't even as prepared as we are and who haven't lived for sixty three years under brutal

oppression. and state let's get an understanding from the international community and we have to constantly prevent things from getting these things by the israeli occupation by an american administration that faced the sea. and credit that so. i think it's about palestine. as an equal and is no longer treated as subhumans. right. euro zone finance ministers have decided to wait until october before deciding on whether to issue another cash bail out to greece as an informal meeting in poland or they say athens is not doing enough to cut its massive debt greece was scheduled to to receive the eight billion euro loan at the end of september a demonstration times to coincide with the talks all tens of thousands of trade union activists from across europe take to the streets they were angry at what they

see as low wages and widespread we don't see the last few months have been plagued by indecision about your leaders on how to deal with greece's debt which is now one of the half times the size of its economy but it's not alone but greece is not alone the global financial squeeze is being felt everywhere and more harshness found out in new york. as the global economy continues to struggle poverty levels continue to rise are you feeling that talk about. me well let me see i moved out of manhattan back to my house in central jersey which was i abandoned two years ago been 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 that in israel we have

a lot of people but it's ok you feel like it's getting worse than it is getting we're actually we're like big manifests three thousand people manifesting because it's too expensive living in israel that's below what's below poverty is on the rise you don't believe it is 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 not so why would people many perhaps you're such baloney sell newspapers you wouldn't have a job this is that happened have you felt the impact at all. yes because i work with a for profit organization that takes care of women and we're seeing lots more women who don't have a choice from you know 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 to be any more american

dream there's no more white picket fence and not everyone to be able in their home but they're not you personally feel the effects of a rising poverty level the bottom line is it seems like this trend isn't going to reverse anytime soon. and coming up later today max and stacy take a short detour and a look at how are the reflects life even in the financial world. alex shaffer mentioned in his own interview but 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 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. 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 in the town of barents burg in the arctic circle which lies on the norwegian archipelago called spitsbergen a vibrant soviet settlement a groove there after a 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 boycott finds out how an old soviet dream still provides a means of survival and is also helping preserve the past. this is the legacy no one should be proud of heaps of scrap metal littering pristine arctic landscape buildings still going over that foundation. black smoke over the snow covered peaks the traces of the soviet industrial activity on the spitzbergen archipelago don't make a pretty picture if the guiding principle here is the worst the better local life tell the story about back in soviet times when visiting barons were. how. it was well rhymes with with kids where the slow progress they were trapped in a region tourists or barons word i would watch needed cash that's why when.

our dollars common is was uncovered here a few days ago and started throwing it away the local of ministration decided to paint it in you and put it at variance works where communism had long stopped being a lifetime goal but is rapidly becoming the means of livelihood 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 the spirit types of a bygone era where you have some problems. here so to resist. this thing goes but now we have a new roof. on the. work. from. back in the nineteen eighties there is work was a burgeoning mining community the soviet union was determined to maintain it a low cost to be located halfway between north america and western europe the

spitzbergen archipelago is part of norway but a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the middle of the. cold war it served as the use of stars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union slask down to quick preserved relics. it is essentially a picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was for me financial support for two decades it's a curious thing for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russians trying. to keep its presence on the streets bergan russia is still maintaining a coal mine here but in trance of profit it's far behind local seven years shops. memorabilia is a big hit there defunct are in curtain still helps keep the money flowing guys it's the russians when you're sure but you can't play in rivals like. the euros the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the

infrastructure up to more than standards if these materials they should efforts are not very popular with tourists. if you are coming from a very authentic place like bonds or think it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the you know authentic. i should not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be on the phone to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to when they tried to add morning russian songs to die repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear was a song come from the familiar. sound like an artsy dance course it turned out to calibrate. our special coverage from spitzbergen but you can still find this and other reports we had on

the westernmost. the soviet union. and us a couple i found guilty of involuntary manslaughter of their adopted son from russia . and the latest developments in the investigation of the tragic plane crash that took the wives of one of the russia's a top ice hockey team lokomotiv just wobble find out more of our team back on. is the. east coast. six. now wraps up our news this hour but i'll be back in just a moment with

a recap of the headlines that's moscow out of our weekend arts and leisure guide plus all the weekend sports ahead too that's how the next half hour looks here on our blog. we.

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