moscow this is r.t. . let's get right to our top story in libya and gadhafi 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 home city of syria meanwhile i could off the spokesman accused nato of backing the rebels and providing them with ammunition. said at least three hundred fifty civilians have been killed and seven hundred injured in the overnight shelling of sere within the alliance denying the accusations from the recent visits of new leaders to the war stricken country assistance in protecting the population. reports europe's top brass have a different agenda on their minds. david cameron and nick the survey that handiwork the most senior leaders to visit tripoli since that country's began the intervention in libya they say is not yet.

until a billion. he's right civilians are still being killed but now that gadhafi is virtually powerless the people increasingly doing the killing the national transitional council forces together with nato as they attack bani walid and all that gadhafi strongholds all not. be 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 be supported fairly there are real problems on the ground is a legacy of such a conflict that you will have human rights abuses taking sides. the national transitional council have promised to hold their own forces to account and i think that that is a process that we. 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 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 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 n.t.s.b. in fact it's quite the opposite britain sponsored un resolution to ease sanctions against libya and against the national oil corporation in particular getting the oil flowing again. london. with libya's national transitional council. the united nations. reports 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 they claim it 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 alienation and generally help the government to levy organize a lecturer's 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 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 a little fly zone over the levy an airspace in the very near future well that's a provision could forward by russia and a provision that received the support of all members take a listen to not only new meter in libya but channeling the situation into political diplomatically and it's important the council considers lifting a new fly zone over libya particularly as this no fly zone has been 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 levy is a new way and seat to the national transitional council which toppled vomited on the although not yet holding the whole of libya the rebels nevertheless represent their . country at the u.n. general assembly next week as for 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. 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 and the few that are up for grabs is it's really worrying. left behind are only 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 of nuclear materials that libya 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. on the station and get. better 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 the border with a breakaway kosovo intensifies following friday's takeover over two disputed border posts kosovan 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 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 that's

been working here at the border points with you like they go there bob wire fence is out there but the sandbags as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricade at these disputed border points and also 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 they'll be lots more people coming to the defense as well to take a few 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. turning out at these barricades but what we've got at the moment

is 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 move and although the way it's being quite diplomatic from what we've heard on base side those calls 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 two surfers who just saw reporting there has caught up with the top negotiator and mediated talks on kosovo who has 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 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 is to death in this attempt and they breached their own mandate they breached their status neutral position toward casa one serbia and we are really dissatisfied with the small and it's against security council resolution for forty four it's against the mandate to fuel excise again six point plan by bank which was supported by security council and that land states did to those two gates should be different and yachters and that they should have only international custom presents once you put a custom officers then you will put a flag then you will put a coat of arms then you will put a so-called casa 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 disposition situation. there's a lot more to come this hour including down to earth answers to a very basic question. what's probably. not be able to get the basic then light ok it's been like that since creation. but since it looks to lose faith as. we hit the streets of new york to find out how much people are feeling the pinch of rising. the world's northernmost monument to lead. flocking to a surprising relic of the. miles from the north pole. the our team is taking you on a trip to spitzbergen on go. where twenty years after ours collapsed.

life is still going strong. for the world's northernmost. presides over and those. who sued. has become a tourist site for those overcome by the cold war in the style of. the special edition. commission. couldn't take three. three. three. three. three. three. projects.

where human life is ruled by nature. is scarcely preserved by the power. lie hidden in the deep permafrost. and for those who deal with. the palestinian president has vowed to to seek full state recognition at the un security council next week mahmoud abbas has also stressed that the move was not meant to isolate or deal with. 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 has more. he was wanted to meet us here in one of israel's bustling cities he wants to talk but not in his own city home and where he's seen

as a troublemaker people they are afraid to talk because the talk there for. the from me or from my job 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 west bank settlement now years on he wants to leave but can't because his property has harmed in value since he bought it for. the world from the same no or. because the government doesn't want the people. there were. the ones who have agreements with the who have to show that. the people it doesn't want to live in peace is one in two states has one town 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 and worse apologies 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 just a myth 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 brought them onto the streets in numbers never seen before in israel's history but not twenty or who has no plans to leave. the goddess of what it does to his economy the peace process there is no open political debate in israel about whether it's right or wrong doing it and we

know about many settlements and there is some 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 and with them in the way the prospects of peace seem as unlikely as binney was actually leaving the west bank. palestinian politician. palestine deserves recognition after years of being under israeli occupation. sense of sorrow and loss not station an anger that others instantly get recognition instantly those who want the event as prepared as we are and who haven't lived for sixty three years under brutal military occupation to 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 the 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 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 at the end of september a demonstration at times to coincide with the talks all 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 leaders 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 system as is being felt everywhere as marie harf missed 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 out 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 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 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 but he 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 it's not 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 baloney so. you wouldn't have a job this is that happened 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. 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 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 suggest the harmony center has won thirty one percent of the vote beating of 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 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 barents berg in the arctic circle which lies on the 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 her special reports on a boycott finds out how an old soviet dream still provides a means of survival and is also helping 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 what will live to tell the story that back in soviet times when norwegians were visiting barons were they also an express lane. and how prosperous this was

well times have changed when they saw a black guy say still attracting new original tourists or barons work i would then cons watch native cash that's why while. 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. line of. 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 use of stars 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 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 still maintaining a coal mine here but trans of profit is far behind local souvenir shops so

obviously my bill it is a big hit the defunct are in curtain still helps keep the money flowing guys it's a russian. plane rumbles are on the. euros the local administration is increasingly under pressure to bring the infrastructure up to more than standards these modernization efforts and 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 honest the fact the 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 come from the familiar. sound like an artsy dance bored kids are going out to california. and that wraps up our special coverage from spitsbergen but you can still find the reports we had on the western. u.s. found guilty of involuntary. and the latest to developments in the investigation of the kind of plane crash that took the lives of one of russia's top ice hockey teams what most if jaroslav will find out more about you got caught. is he it's.

easy 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 this short break. like

millions of americans have lost thousands of dollars in retirement funds and i haven't had as bad as many it's not just about the them it's about me to. me man brad man ya got to show. up. and say. that. oh don't. need it. now. since this is my film i get the last word this financial crisis will not be like a light sleep. cool.

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some of the early in the moscow this is our team and these are your headlines. loyalists continue to put up a strong resistance and claim nato has killed hundreds of civilians in recent bombing raids has come as libya's former rebels are granted a seat at the un where talks moved to post world reconstruction. meanwhile there's another bid for recognition with palestine. a president waiting for a u.n. vote on statehood despite the u.s. promised to veto it that says some israeli west bank settlements say they're ready to leave the area but that their government will not. end in kosovo standoff continues between police and ethnic serbs angry that pristina has taken control of two border posts blocking serbian employers mostly sort of north of the republic claimed that their rights are being violated by kosovo.