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

in five o'clock in the morning here in moscow this is r.t. glad to have you with us on to our top story in libya and i could 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 a spokesman accused nato of backing the rebels and providing them with ammunition but i said at least three hundred fifty civilians have been killed and seven hundred injured in over night shelling of syria with the alliance denying accusations this comes amid the recent visits of e.u. leaders to the war stricken country vowing assistance in protecting the population but as a war 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 done on with the nato mission 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 lead and other gadhafi strongholds and 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 duffy supporters really there are real problems on the ground there's a legacy of such

a conflict that you will have human rights abuses taking arms 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 corner by reports by amnesty international which says the rebels all guilty of unlawful killings and torture it takes pains to point out they could ask the forces committed some terrible atrocities but also talk human so brutal startling it's caused by rebel forces including the lynchings of gadhafi soldiers meanwhile keep daffy's hometown is one of the last holdouts a letter purportedly from the colonel himself begs the u.n. security council to protect thirty. from being pounded by nato and 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 gadaffi that killing innocent libyans in the lead up to nato has no fly zone being imposed but no starch rhetorics being aimed at the empty sea in fact it's quite the opposite britain sponsored un resolution to ease sanctions against libya and gates the national oil corporation in particular getting the oil flowing again. london. with libya's national transitional council now granted a seat at the united nations mr carroll 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 it 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. preconception is welcomed by all members this is something that washes and wants of 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 implement which really is my resolution aiming at protecting civilians the country found itself in a full scale civil war with civilians suffering is also the resolution expresses the security council's determination to lift the will fly zones over the legal airspace in the very near future well that's a provision called forward by russia and

a provision that we seek support of our members take a listen. in libya rechanneling the situation into political diplomatically and it's important to cancel consideration listing a new fly zone over libya particularly as this no fly zone is being violated arbitrary and used the new reality on the ground and intervening 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. the resolution would also ease economic sanctions imposed on libya and make sure it can serve 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 levy is when siege to the national transitional council which toppled mama down although not yet holding the whole of leave here the rebels nevertheless represent their. country 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 your own 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 the 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 hope for grabs is that really worrying. left behind are only brimming with weapons and the rebels have helped themselves those weapons may very well wind up in the hands of people who have other agendas then eating 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 and out in the

hands of extremists and terrorists and not just weapons but maybe nuclear materials that leave your 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. is subtle and last not just based on the anger of later in the program we'll speak to a palestinian politician who thinks that her people should get fairer treatment from the. ethnic tension on serbia's a border with breakaway kosovo intensifies following friday's takeover of two disputed border posts kosovan the police with the assistance of nato led forces have placed customs officers at checkpoints previously under ethnic serb control locals have tried to prevent what they called the unilateral action of course of those albanians ortiz's their firth reports from one of the seas checkpoints. you

can see the sign put up by the cable forces it's a warning to the ethnics protesters ok for the nato peacekeeping mission has been working here at the border point with you like they pull that boat wire fences up sandbags as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricade of the border point not so many of the men and they've made it very very clear that if anyone tries to leave the barricades that they've made that they're willing to be lots more people coming to the defense as well to take a vote of these control points what they see the ethics population here in the north as an extension of kristina's control over the disputed territory now. repeat of what we saw in july when violent clashes over the course the government making of the to try and take place resulted in the death of the policemen is actually relatively quiet here what we've seen is

a huge number of. turning out at these barricades what we've got at the moment is a standoff situation is a war with no checkpoints at the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the case full force is at the actual crossing of the no one wants to make me and will they be worth it being quite dramatic from what we've heard of bayside schools the calm and for peace but of course the actions the scene quite different than there still seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved. or jesus or first has also caught up with her abuse top negotiator you know. talks on cause of zero who's also been at the checkpoints. are now calling on both sides to resume discussions and you shared his views on a possible solution to the problem. road to full normalization or far relationship with christina and of course that are really zation. doesn't mean by any way

a 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 ulick's assisted them in this attempt and they breached their own mandate they breached their status neutral position toward casa one serbia and we are really satisfied with the small and it's against security council resolution for all forty four it's against the mandate of united states against six points point by donkey move which was supported by the security council and the land states to those two gates should be different and yachters and they then should have only international custom presidents custom officers then you will put a flag then you will put a coat of arms then you will put a so-called cross

a loss 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 this specific situation. there's a lot more to come this hour including a down to earth answers to a very basic question. that was comedy. 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 let's face it you wouldn't have a job because that happened. and we have the streets of new york to find out how much it's people are feeling the pinch of rising poverty. and to check out the world's northernmost monumental london tourists are flocking to a surprising relic of the soviet. decades tracking. one thousand miles from the north pole. the r.c.

team is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen archipelago. where twenty years after the u.s. is sars collapsed the suv between life is still going strong. with the world's statue of lenin presides over a goes. to see it. has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war and the still. going to suck special edition. when 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 was not meant to isolate or deal a good advise 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 policy or has more. anyway as one has 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 talk before him away from the drug like the from me from i drove pinney won't shut up he says he's tried have been used as a pawn by the government thirty years ago the state media 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 whisper and sit home and now years on he wants to leave but can't because his property has harvard in value since he bought it so. no one because the government doesn't want. the west bank of the. agreement with the seriously we have to show that it's full of people and the people doesn't want to live he says one in two states is going to cut the

government does everything it can to keep him in most of the land barren and difficult. about one. month ago constructs and has begun on more than two thousand projects here in the west bank and with the qualities get extra money from the ministry of education for extra teachers or extra money from the ministry of infrastructure for more interest rector 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 decisions 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 the time yahoo has no plans to leave the statements regardless of what it does to his economy alter the peace process there is no political the. he's wrong about whether it's right or wrong doing it and

we know about many certainly some part of france where you have a lot of apartments which are empty as kind of skinny and head off to the united nations is really only digs in the wrong decision and with women the way the prospects of peace seem as unlikely as binney was actually leaving the west bank policy r t. palestinian politician who. says palestine deserves recognition after years of being under israeli occupation so a sense of sorrow and loss not restoration anger but others instantly get recognition and instantly those who want even as prepared as we are and who have been for sixty three years under brutal military occupation get the recognition that statehood get support get an understanding from the international community

and. constantly prevent things from getting these things by the israeli occupation by an american administration that the place to see the benefits of justice i think it's about time that by this time going to a community of nations as an equal and there's no longer. a subhuman species. like . euro zone finance ministers have decided to wait until october before deciding on whether to issue another cash bailout to greece and an informal meeting in poland they say athens is not doing enough to cut its massive debt greece was scheduled to receive a v. eight billion euro loan i think end of september a demonstration time to coincide with the talks saw 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. the last few months have been plagued by indecision among even 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 of

a global financial squeeze is being felt everywhere as our first found out of 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 basically i'm just living the 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 where it's actually where the. big manifests three thousand people manifesting because it's too expensive living in israel that's baloney let's pull

out that is on the rise you don't believe it is what's poverty. well not be able to get the basics in life. it's like that since creation is it worse or better it's probably about the same as it always was so you're not. so why would people men. you're such a loney. you wouldn't have a job this is the. 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 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 to be any more american dream there's no more white picket fence and not everyone's 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 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 he kept on pointing out that the police visited alex shaffer to discuss the 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 publicly caso responded no you did it. and now on to some more stories are for you making headlines across the globe. a pro russian party has gained the most votes in the last the snap of parliamentary election according to partial results polls suggest the harmony center has won thirty one percent of the vote beating the party of the former president and a block of the prime minister meanwhile speculation is now emerging that they may form a coalition to keep the pro russian already out of the government there has been no party catering to the ethnic russian my own norty that make up a third of the latvian population for twenty years. venezuelan

president hugo chavez is set to return to cuba for a fourth round of chemotherapy in june this year mr chavez announced that doctors had removed the tumor but he has not said what type of cancer he has the president says he hopes to finish his treatment soon and has pledged to run for reelection next year. and 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 in russia it is the town of barons of berg in the arctic circle which lies 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 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. it's the legacy no one

should be proud of heaps of crack natalie cheering pristine arctic landscape building still ting over their 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 of the better local life to tell the story back in soviet times when are we doing for a visiting barons were they don't want to. see how prosperous this stuff really was well time obviously can't buy they saw it live as they are trapped in a region tourists are bearing the word i would there are cons watch native that's why when. our wall is common is what i would call right here few days ago instead of throwing it away the local administration decided to paint it in you and quoted at various works found where communism had 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 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 spirit types of a bygone era we have some problems with. the clearest. thing but now we have new rules. trying to. work. from. that in the nineteen eighties there was a burgeoning mining community during the soviet union it was determined to maintain it costs to a degree located halfway between north america and western europe bergen archipelago is part of norway with a special status that allows other countries to set up industrial bases here in the

. well of the cold war it served as the use of stars westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union slask preserved relics. is essentially a picture of what would have happened in a suit union if it was cut off from any kind of support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russian travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia is still maintaining a coal mine here but in trance of profit it's far behind local souvenir shops so obviously my bill it is a big hit that it banks are in kirton still helps keep the money flowing guys it's a russian so you're sure you can put in rubbles. euros the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards give these images station after it's a not very popular bit tourist help your readers if you come into

a very authentic place like. it 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 back to change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to what they try to add more than russian songs to die repertoire the audience called all they wanted to hear it was a song comparably familiar. sound like r.c.u. downs bored kids dragging out to calibrate. the raps of our special coverage or from spitzbergen but you can still find this and other reports we had the westernmost of the soviet union. also. a us are found guilty of the involuntary manslaughter it son. from washington.

and the latest developments in the investigation of the tragic plane crash that took the lives of one of russia's top ice hockey teams look a lot of you just love find out more at archie dot com. which. is easy. to. say. and that wraps up our news of for this hour but i will be back in a moment with a recap of that lives. will.

be. like millions of americans i've lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as so many it's not just about the debt it's about needs to. me ma'am right now ya got to show. now.

the. modem. needed. the now. since this is my film i get the last word this financial crisis will not be turned off like a light sleep. on . the a. clue.