from moscow where it is six zero one in the morning this is our t.v. glad to have you with us on to our top story libya antigun off the forces have a resumed their attack on the besieged town of bani walid just as a day after they were repelled by wireless troops fighting has also flared in the ousted leader's home city of syria meanwhile the spokes men accused nato of backing the rebels and providing them with ammunition even said at least three hundred fifty civilians have been killed and seven hundred injured in the overnight shelling of syria the alliance are denying the accusations from the recent visits to leaders to the word stricken country vowing assistance in protecting the population but as reports from europe's top brass have a different agenda on their minds. david cameron and nicolas sarkozy surveyed the handywork the most senior leaders to visit tripoli since that country's began the intervention in libya they say is not yet.

until. 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 strongholds on that cameron and sarkozy all silent to paraphrase george orwell in animal farm 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 daffy's supporters fairly there are real problems on the ground the legacy of such a conflict will have human rights abuses taking sides rebels the national transitional council have promised to hold their own forces to account nothing.

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 that is the rebels all guilty of unlawful killings and torture it takes pains to point out that the forces committed some terrible atrocities but also documents of 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 purportedly 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 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. national transitional council and. 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 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 to levy 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 trivia and 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 could forward by russia and a provision that received support of all members take a listen to marilyn you meter 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 new fly zone is being violated

arbitrarily and used the 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. 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 general assembly on friday gave libya's new when seat to the national transitional council which toppled vomited on the 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 that are up for grabs is that really worrying. left behind are only dreaming 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. and what has been his speedy acceptance for libya's

former rebels has it 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 on the streets and i later in the program we speak to a palestinian politician who thinks that her people should get a fairer treatment from the international community. ethnic tension on the service border with a breakaway kosovo intensifies following friday's takeover of two disputed border posts 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 kosovo albanians. furthur reports from one of the seized checkpoints. you can see the sign put up by the k 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 call that bob wire fences out there with the sandbags as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricade of these disputed border points 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 repeat of what we saw in july when filing clashes over the course the government making of me to try and take place resulted in the death of a 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 because the basic 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 a meal and although the way it's being quite diplomatic from what we've heard and based sites the schools the calm and the 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 or do. reporting there has also caught up with top negotiators mediated talks on kosovo who's also been at the disputed checkpoints. 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 kristina 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 ulick's assisted them in this attempt and they breached their own mandate they breached their status neutral position toward. the war in serbia and we are really dissatisfied we do small and it's against security council resolution twelve forty four it's against the mandate of ulick's it's again six point plan by the bank you move which was supported by security council and the states it did to those two gates should be different and yachters and they should have only international custom presents once you put a custom officers then you will put a flag then you will put the cult of arms then you will put a so-called cross civil 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. was probably. not be able to get the basic right 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 wouldn't have a job it was when you hit the streets of new york to find out how much of its people are feeling the pinch of rising poverty. check out the world's northernmost monument to tourists are flocking to a surprising relic of the soviet. decades . one thousand miles from the north pole. the our team is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen on go. where twenty years after the u.s.

was ours collapsed the suv between life is still going strong. for the world's northernmost. presides over a ghost town or at least it. has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war in the style of. the close up special edition. the 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 israel that 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 polis there has more. binny was 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 the talk there for. the for all new form 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 an away spanx home and now years on he wants to leave but can't because his property has harbored in value since he bought it so. from the said no or because the government doesn't want the people. the west bank after them have agreement with the we have to show that it's full of people doesn't want to live. one in two states that's point out but the government does everything it can to keep them in most of the land and difficult but that hasn't stopped.

in the long. construct and has begun on more than two thousand projects here in the west bank municipalities 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 netanyahu 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 apartments which are empty as palestinians head off to the united nations the israeli army digs in around the city limits and with them in the way the prospects of peace seem as unlikely 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 won't even as prepared as we are 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 yet we are constantly preventing from getting these things by the israeli occupation by an american administration that really pays 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 that have no rights. euro zone finance ministers have decided to wait until october before deciding on whether to issue another cash bail out 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 the eight billion euro loan at the end of september a demonstration timed to coincide with the talks 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 the e.u. 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 in the global financial strain that is being felt everywhere as 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 a 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 thousand people manifesting because it's too expensive they're living in israel that's baloney what's baloney property 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 buying it. so why would people manufacture such cologne. so 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 for profit organization that takes care of women but 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 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 property level the bottom line is it seems like this trend isn't going to reverse anytime soon. and coming up this hour max and stacy take a short detour and

a look at how art 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 alec schaefer 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's told about his famous are or guernica guernica being of course the town 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 now time to take a look at some stories from across the globe. a russia party has gained the most votes in the law snap problem entry election according to partial results polls suggest the harmony center has won thirty one percent of the vote beating at the party of the former president and the bloc of the prime minister meanwhile speculation is now emerging that they may form a coalition to keep the pro russian party out of government there's been no party catering to the ethnic russian minority that make up one third of the latvian population for at least twenty years. in israel and president hugo chavez is set to return to cuba for a fourth round of chemotherapy in june this year mr chavez amounts the doctors had

removed the tumor but he has not said what type of cancer he has says he hopes to finish his treatments soon and has pledged to run for reelection next year. and if you are curious as how it was to live in the u.s.s.r. well 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 spurred in the arctic circle which lies on a norwegian archipelago called spitsbergen a vibrant soviet settlement 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 boycott finds out how an old soviet dream still provides a means of survival and is 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 if the guiding principle here is the worse the better local life to tell the story about back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were they also an express lane. and how prosperous the settlement was well times have obviously kenge where they saw it lags they still attracting the region tourists are barons work i would then cons watch native 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 menu and put it at barron's work central square communism had 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. tourists. 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 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 in most outpost now it's one of the soviet union slask preserved relics. barracks bag is essentially

a picture of what would have happened 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 russian travelers to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia is still maintaining a coal mine here but in trams of profit it's far behind local souvenir shops. memorabilia is a big hit the defunct are in curtain still helps keep the money flowing guys it's a russian. you can play in. the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards if these modernization efforts i'm not very popular with tourists operators 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 letter you know authentic tradition here. i should

not i would not like to have it in a shiny condition to be on and 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 die repertoire it left the audience called all they wanted to hear was a song comfortably familiar. sound like a car seat downs board an archipelago. and that wraps up our special coverage from spitsbergen but you can still find other reports we've had on the westernmost outpost of the soviet union at r.t. dot com also online for you. found guilty involuntary. and the latest developments in the investigation of the tragic plane crash that took the lives of one of russia's top team last album excuse me locomotive. find out more

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gadhafi loyalists continue to put up strong resistance and claim nato has killed hundreds of civilians in recent bombing raids this comes as libya's former rebels are granted a seat at the u.n. where talks moved to wards post-war reconstruction. meanwhile there is another bid for recognition with a palestinian president waiting for a u.n. vote on statehood despite a u.s. promise to veto with parents or some israeli west bank settlers say they're ready to leave the area but that their government will let them. and in kosovo the standoff continues between police and ethnic serbs angry that pristina has taken control of two border posts are blocking serbian imports mostly service north of the republican plane but their rights are being violated by kosovo. your weekend a kaiser report is next with max and stacey looking at what the u.s. will be going through that's coming up next on the guy's report.