gadhafi loyalists are continue to put up a 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 move towards a post-war reconstruction. staying within the u.n. palestine is preparing its bid to become a full member despite washington promising it to veto through the security council this as there are some israeli settlers on the west bank say that they are ready to go but claim that they are forced to stay against their will. and in kosovo a standoff continues between police and local ethnic serbs angry that pristina has

taken control of two border posts blocking serbian imports. and a seven a one in moscow this is r.t. i'm john thomas and let's get right to our top story in libya antigun 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 sears meanwhile it could off the spokesman accused nato of backing the rebels and providing them with ammunition even though he said at least three hundred fifty civilians have been killed and seven hundred injured in the overnight shelling of syria with the alliance denying the accusations has come from a good reason because it's an e.u. leaders to the worst i can country assistance in protecting the population but as

a lawyer emma reports europe's top brass have a different agenda on their knots. 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 until the villian. and. he's right civilians are still being killed but now that kidnapping it's virtually powerless the people increasingly doing the killing are national transitional council forces together with nato as they attack leaves 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 suppose it could be supporters really there are real problems on

the ground the legacy of such a conflict will have human rights abuses on both sides i think 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 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 that is the rebels are guilty of unlawful killings and torture it takes pains to point out that kids afy forces committed some terrible atrocities but also documents of brutal settling of scores by rebel forces including the lynchings of the soldiers meanwhile these home town is one of the last holdouts a letter purportedly from the colonel himself begs the u.n.

security council to protect. so from being pounded by nato to tackle what it describes as crimes by the forces of the new government civilian deaths all seemingly assured. cameron and sarkozy were quick to condemn gadhafi for killing innocent libyans in the lead up to nato is no fly zone being imposed but no such rhetorics being aimed at the n.t. in fact it's quite the opposite person sponsors a un resolution to ease sanctions against libya indicates the national oil corporation in particular getting the oil flowing again your emmett's all to london with libya's national transitional council now granted a seat at the united nations where he's going to try to counter reports on the first steps to rebuilding the country. one of the things that the new resolution

inventions 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 leave the organizer elections and write a new constitution and that kind of a new on purpose a patient is welcomed by all members this is something that washes and went to the united nations was talking about saying it's a u.n. responsibility to help create some kind of a law and order system that would put an end to the chaos there as a result of the failure to properly implemented which really is my resolution aiming at protecting civilians the country found itself in a full scale civil war with civilians suffering also the resolution expresses the security council's determination to lift the no fly zone over the legal airspace in

the very near future well that's a provision called forward by russia and a provision that we see in support of our members take a listen. channeling the situation into political diplomatically it's important to cancel considers listing a new fly zone over libya particularly as this new fly zone is being violations are try. and use the new reality on the ground between the new players will no longer make sense it's lifting must be part of the international community's efforts to address the aftermath of the libyan crisis so. the resolution would also ease economic sanctions imposed on libya make short 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 seats to the national transitional council which toppled moammar gadhafi although not yet holding the whole of libya the rebels nevertheless represent their. country at the going general assembly next week as the arms embargo imposed on libya there

are uncertainties whether everyone at the u.n. security council is on the same page here russia calls for removing a ban on small arms supplies to leave you to protect us 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 the area that are out for grabs is it's really worrying. left behind. with the actions and the rebels have helped themselves those weapons mean very well lined 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 lead to possibly has to. and what has been the 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 of the space or nine years. later in the program we speak to a palestinian politician who thinks that her people should get fairer treatment from the international community. i think tension on serbia's border with a breakaway kosovo intensifies following friday's takeover of two disputed border posts kosovan police with the assistance of nato led forces have placed customs officers at tri points previously under ethnic serb control well calls have tried

to prevent what they called the unilateral action of kosovo's albanians or at least their first reports from one of the seas checkpoints. you can see the sign put up by the k full force it's a warning to the ethnics that protest is ok for the nato peacekeeping mission has been working here at the border points with you like they go there bob what sense is that they got the sound bites 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 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 the takeover 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 violent clashes over the course the 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. turning out at these barricades but what we've got at the moment is a standoff situation is a war with no checkpoints at the barricades. and then the case full force is at the actual crossing of the no one wants to make a move and although the words have been quite diplomatic from what we've heard in place side those calls the calm and the peace but of course the actions quite different than there still seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved parties are further do so reporting very caught up with top negotiator and mediated talks on cross who has also been at this point. 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 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 their position toward casa one serbia and we are really dissatisfied with the smoke and it's against security council resolution for forty four it's against the mandate of us it's against six point plan by bank which was supported by security council and their land states the those two gates should be different and yachters and then they should have only international

custom presence once you put their custom officers then you will put a flag then you will put the college of arms then you will put the so-called casa 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. there's a lot more to come this hour including a down to earth answers to a very basic question. what's probably. not be able to get the basics in life ok it's been like that since creation is it more so bad it's probably about things that i don't lose faith because you will have a job which is going up and. we hit the streets of new york to find out how much else people are feeling the pinch of rising poverty. and check out the world the northernmost monuments in london chorus are flocking to

a surprising relic of the soviet system. back in top. one thousand miles from the north pole. the are the team is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen entrepreneur ago. where twenty years after the u.s. was sars collapsed to soon redrawing life is still a looming stroll. in the world's northernmost statue of lenin presides over a goes. to assume it. has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war in the style. of a close up special edition on our t.v. . mission creep could take three. three.

three. three. three. three balls just plug in video for your media projects seat medio dog a hearty talk talk. in the far away land. where human life is ruled by nature. of planet earth is scarcely preserved by the plague. lie hidden in the deep permafrost. and for those who deal with them who. are still not sure. the palestinian president has vowed to seek full state recognition at the un the security council next week has also stressed that the move was not meant to isolate or deal with the demise of 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 there has more. he was wanted to meet us here in one of israel's bustling cities he wants to talk to not in his own social mind but he's seen as a troublemaker they are afraid to talk because they're from away from the drug like the from your former drove put binny won't be shut up he says he's tired of being 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 point the only catch it was in a way spenser's one and now years on he wants to leave but can't because his property has hard in value since he bought it so. going to help. from a so no one because the government doesn't want people in. the west bank after them

the ones who have agreement with the who have to show that the poor and the people of gaza want to live when he sees one in two states has pointed out that the government does everything it can to keep him in most of the land barren and difficult. that has been on it in a few months no construct has a ban on more than two thousand projects here in the west bank and polities 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 put them onto the streets in numbers never seen before in israel's history but netanyahu has no plans to leave

the system and the goddess of what it does to his economy alter the peace process there is no political debate. and he's wrong about whether it's right or wrong doing it and we know about any certain. part of france where you have a lot of apartments which are and he as palestinians head off to the united nations is really only digs in a wrong decision and with him in the way the prospects of peace seem as unlikely as binney was actually leaving the west bank policy r.t. . palestinian politician ashrawi says palestine deserves recognition now after years of being under israeli occupation so a sense of sorrow and loss not a statesman an anger that others instantly get recognition instantly those who as prepared as we are and who haven't lived for sixty three years under brutal

military occupation and get recognition that state will 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 hates to see the benefits of justice i think it's about palestine joins the community of nations as an equal and is no longer. a subhuman species rights. 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 crowd its massive debt greece was scheduled to receive a v. eight billion year old loan at the end of september a demonstration at times to coincide with the talks are 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 sees the last few months have been plagued by

indecision among you meters on how to deal with greece's debt which is now one and a half times the size of its economy and it's not only the global financial squeeze 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 the day by day this is the wrong place to talk about because here everything is so expensive so. it's weird how is it in israel we have a lot of people but it's ok you feel like it's getting worse there it is getting

worse actually where like big manifests three thousand people manifesting because it's too expensive they're living in israel that's baloney what's baloney probably 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 that. so why would people manufacture such baloney sell newspapers you wouldn't have a job this is that will happen have you felt the impact on alt. yes because i work with the for profit organization that takes care of women and we're seeing lots more women who don't have insurance we need or do you think would happen if a middle class disappeared. i don't think it'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. whether or not you personally

feel the effects of the rising poverty level the bottom line is it seems like this trend isn't going to burst anytime soon. and now for some more stories from across the globe. a pro russian party has gained of the most votes in a lot of years snap a parliamentary election according to partial results polls that suggest the harmony center has won thirty one percent of the vote beating chardy 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 old russia party out of government there has been no party catering to the ethnic russian minority that make up one third of the latvian population for at least 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 doctors had

removed a tumor but he said he has not said what type of cancer he has president says he hopes to finish his treatment soon and has pledged to run for reelection next year . if you are curious as to how it was to live in the u.s.s.r. there is one place where the soviet spirit is frozen in time and it's not russia it is the town of the barents in the arctic circle which lives on a norwegian archipelago called spitsbergen and a vibrant soviet settlement grew there after money and 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 hoping to 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 tell the story about back in soviet times when norwegians visiting barons word they also looks. at how prosperous this was. the time obviously i can't read this only a plug a small tracting a region tourists or barons work and. needed cash that's why when. our goal is common it was i would call it here a few days ago instead of drawing it the way the local administration decided to paint it in you and put it at variance work central square communism have long been a lifetime goal but is rapidly becoming the means of livelihood the rusty soviet heritage has suddenly become a hard to reach destination for the 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 of bygone era have some problems with. the use of the wrists. but now we have a new roof. vinyl. from. back in the nineteen eighties was a burgeoning mining community the soviet union was determined to maintain at all costs should you be located halfway between north america and western europe bergen archipelago is part of normal rate but a special status that allows other countries to set up in just a little bases here in the middle of the. cold war it served as the useless arse westernmost outpost now it's one of the soviet union slask al fantic would preserve relics. is essentially

a picture of what would have happened to the soviet union if it was cut off from the financial support for two decades it's a curious site for western tourists and i think it could be even more appealing for russian trains to keep its presence on spitsbergen russia still maintaining a coal mine here but in trance of profit it's far behind local seven year shops so between married bill it is a big hit the defunct arne curtain still helps keep the money flowing guys it's the russians when you're so what's your main rivals are on the. euros the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure optimal than standards have these materialization efforts are not very popular with tourists operators if you come into a very authentic place like bond sport or think it should stay the way it is that would be my wish i mean that's the part of the a little you know authentic tradition here. i should not i would not like to have

it in a shiny condition to be honest the fact that change even for the better is not always good for business something that even a local band has become attuned to let me try to add morning russian songs to die repertoire because the audience called all they wanted to hear was a song with them there were. some like artsy bearings bored kids are going out to california. and that wraps up our special coverage from smith's bergen but you can still find this and other reports we had on the westernmost outpost of the soviet union at r.t. dot com also on the. us a couple are found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. and the latest developments in the investigation of the kind of plane crash that took the lives of one of russia's top ice hockey teams what movie if you just love will find out more about you guys. if.

he. used to. say. that wraps up our news hour but i will be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments after a short break. like

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