casting live direct from the heart of moscow this is are certainly 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 a loyalist troops fighting has also flared in the city of syria meanwhile a spokesman accused nato of backing the rebels and providing them with ammunition. three hundred fifty civilians have been killed and seven hundred injured in an overnight showing of syria with the alliance denying the accusations this comes amid the recent visits of leaders to the war stricken country going assistance in protecting the population but reports europe's top brass have a different agenda on their minds. david cameron and nick. handy work the most senior leaders to visit tripoli since that country's began the invention in libya they say is not yet. 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 all that gadhafi stronghold not. to. 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. you will have human rights abuses taking. rebels 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 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 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 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 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 empty 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. is national transitional council. the united nations. 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 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

recalls alleviation and generally help the government in libya organize 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 previous u.n. 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 received the support of all members take a listen. to in libya by channeling 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 is being violated

arbitrarily induced a new reality on the ground maintaining the no 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. 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 the general assembly on friday gave libya's u.n. seat to the national transitional council which toppled moammar gadhafi although not yet controlling the whole of libya the rebels nevertheless represent their. one tree 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 go 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 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 libya that are up for grabs is extremely worrying more production is 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 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 a takeover of two disputed border posts kosovo 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 called the unilateral action of kosovo albanians. reports from one of the seas checkpoints. you can see the sign put up by the case full force it's a warning to the ethnics protest is ok for the nato peacekeeping mission that's

been working here at the border points with you like they go there bob wire fence is out they've got the sandbags as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricade of these disputed border point not so many of the men 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 vote of these control points what they see the essex population here in the north as an extension of kristina's control over the disputed territory now amid concerns . of what we saw in july when filing clashes over the course of the making of me to try and take place resulted in the death of the policeman is actually relatively quiet here what we've seen is a huge number of. finding out. what we've got at the moment it's

a standoff situation is a war with no it's because of the checkpoints at the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the case full force is at the actual crossing of but no one wants to make me and all the way to being quite diplomatic from what we've heard a bass side those calls the 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 or further has also caught up with serbia's top negotiator in the e.u. mediated talks on kosovo who's also being disputed points. over to 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 christine 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 to have dialogue actually to an agreement how these two crossings two 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 attempt and they breached their own mandate they reached their status neutral position. in 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 if you like seats against six points point by bank you move which was supported by the security council and the states to those two gates should be different and yachters and they should have only international custom presidents custom officers then you will put a flag then you will. then you will put. the laws and then people who live here will be circled by something that looks like state except 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 poverty. not be able to get the basics then life ok it's been like that it's 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 this didn't happen but we had the streets of new york to find out how much it's people are feeling the pinch of a rising poverty. and a check out the world's northernmost a monumental one and tourists are flocking to a surprising relic of the soviet past.

the u.n. security council next week. also stressed that the move was. despite a u.s. promise to veto the. west bank would want to leave but the government keeps putting obstacles to prevent this from happening. 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 they are afraid to talk because they're 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 hovered in value since he bought it so. going to help. 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 doesn't want to live peace is one in two states it's one town but the government does everything it can to keep them in most of the land barren and difficult but that has.

construct and has begun on more than two thousand projects here in the west bank most apologies 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 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 open political debate. he's wrong 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 moments and with them in the way the prospects of peace seem as light as binney was actually leaving the west bank policy r.t. . palestinian politician one. palestine deserves a recognition after years of being under israeli occupation a sense of sorrow and loss not station anger that others instantly get recognition instantly those who want. it and who haven't lived for sixty three years under brutal military occupation get recognition get statehood get support 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 clearly to see the benefits 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 finance ministers have decided to wait until october before deciding on whether to issue another cash bailout to greece at an informal meeting in poland and 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 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 done see the last few months have been plagued by indecision among your readers on how to deal with princess 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 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. out of work so you know basically i'm just living the day by day this is the wrong place to talk about 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 hundred thousand people manifesting because it's too expensive they're living in israel that's baloney what's baloney that 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 by nuns. so why would people manufacture such baloney sell newspapers you wouldn't have a job this is didn't happen have you felt the effects and 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. 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 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 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 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 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 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 if 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 obviously changed when they saw a black as they still attracting the region tourists or barons work i would watch cash that's why when. 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 hawk 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. this thing but now we have a new roof. 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 u.s. is sars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union slask preserved relics

. it is essentially a picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from 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 trans of profit is far behind local seven year shops so between méribel it is a big hit the defunct aren't curtain still helps keep the money flowing guys it's a russian thing you're. playing. your local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts and not very popular with tourists if you come into a very authentic place like bonds should stay the way it is that would be my wish i

mean that's the part of the let 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 the repertoire it left the audience called all they wanted to hear was a song come from the familiar. sound like i'm already there in fort bragg an article about. our special coverage from spitsbergen but you can still find this and other reports we had on the westernmost. the soviet union. also for you. and us a couple i found guilty involuntary manslaughter of their adopted son from russia. and the latest developments in the investigation of the tragic plane crash that

took the lives of one of the russia's a top ice hockey team lokomotiv jaroslav will find out more at r.t. dot com. is he used to. be. easy to. see. that wraps up our news in this hour but i'll be back in just a moment with a recap of the headlines and then it's must go out our weekend arts and leisure guide plus all the weekend sports ahead too that's how the next half hour looks here are put up.

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from broadcasting live direct from the heart of moscow this years are to me glad to have some coffee a loyalists and continue to put up strong resistance and claim nato has killed hundreds of civilians in recent bombing raids this comes as libya's a former rebels are granted a seat at the u.n. where talks moved to post-war reconstruction. meanwhile there's another bid for recognition with palestine's president waiting for a u.n. vote on statehood despite a us promised to veto it that's really west bank settlers say they're ready to leave the area but their government. and in kosovo standoff continues between police and ethnic serbs angry that pristina has taken control of two border posts and blocking serbian imports the mostly at surbiton north of the republic claims that their right.