latest news in the week's top stories these remaining supporters put a fierce resistance in three libyan cities all the people of her believed to still support you as the colonel say they're gripped by fear and base for pressure. as nato streams ahead with pressure agreements on putting u.s. missiles in eastern europe there are security concerns of the kremlin to call for urgent talks. with. moscow and london sweet and sour relations as david cameron makes the first trip to russia by a british prime minister and six year. plus peacekeepers in kosovo on high alert as a big tension in serbia's breakaway republic reaches a boiling point. eight

am in moscow i match reza good to have you with us here on our team bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news turning first to libya where fierce fighting rages on between pro and anti kadafi forces loyalist troops are making our last stand in three cities that are under heavy assault by a relentless raw rebel fight who is being back at work backing the country's new government search bani walid and sob now witnessing house to house battles with hundreds of civilians caught in the crossfire it's thought colonel gadhafi who is still on the run could be hiding in one of the besieged cities meanwhile life is returning to a kind of normal in the capital but as our humor if an ocean there are some libyans who already want gadhafi back. and months after tripoli fell into rebels'

hands those who backed the old regime remain defiant fearful in parts of the city the rebels triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened how did so somewhere else. we will do anything from our only moammar even if we have to leave all nice. seven support for the ousted leader it is solved once they see our camera they. like what we're going to put it how the camera why. it's the same situation with others to. hundred percent good we don't want this revolution we don't know the rebels we want them to go away. we are from television so could you tell your camera no no thanks a five pm front of a camera they will send a bullet through my head. the criminals you don't know them you call them the rebels hey guys do you remember to have a black guy he was arrested

a few days ago after here appearing on t.v. don't do that eve lags new slogans new speech is. the rebels were out celebrating again this week when they had of the national transitional council libya's new authority arise in the capital before a large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who is really. the those who don't support mr fogg and who we used to see all across the city proudly waving green flags just weeks ago packing khadafi now trying not to leave their own backyards here there. was. a very. tough it is a battle a gun they knew all sorted. that's not all down here in the capital tripoli people are chanting that is new free country but it seems that there is at least one thing

that still remains of all the their fear. one youngster finally agrees to talk. tripoli is now under the control of the national transitional council and we don't feel we have freedom to talk or to express an opinion and we see something in favor of gadhafi who can kill us and the rest of us of course money and fear. a nineteen year old says many of his friends have been arrested recently for making critical statements about a new regime ironically we're talking just a kilometer away from one of the dark is top secret jails for political prisoners known as abu salim don't believe the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with killings to intimidate through fear their hands are covered in blogs amnesty international has recently accused both conduct his regime and the one which took place to of committing war crimes

including killings and torture of military prisoners and civilians these are being felt by some here the more his in-store regional shin r t three pally libya nato is waging to keep up its airstrikes to support and take out your forces for as long as it sees fit with news new governing body also gets a seat at the u.n. soon british and french leaders recently paid a visit to the national transitional council this week but africa. as a kiwi thinks there is more to do more to do with securing deals and securing peace . the national transition council would have never been able to get outside of benghazi if it had not been for the support of the united states as well as the nato forces they have supplied these rebels with arms with diplomatic cover then of course there was the so-called no fly zone over libya which has really been

a massive bombing operation against that country of six million people it's a very very tense situation that exists right now all over the country the fact that they have not been able to take over areas in the western part of libya such as danny relief and search and suffer. is very much indicative of the fact that this war is by no means settled the visit on a part of nicolaus cosi of france and david cameron of britain this is an attempt to shore up this colonial takeover of the most are all rich and the most prosperous country on the after continent. commentary there from the u.s. base africa analyst and i you know me as i can wait. nascar is reiterating its a deep concerns over plans to house u.s. missiles in poland following the announcement that parts of the defense shield could be in place by twenty eighteen the foreign ministry in moscow said saturday

that urgent talks with nato are necessary as well as hard news that russian security will be at risk warsaw and washington's outline for putting missiles on polish soil follow you'll still this week with romania and turkey who agreed to host parts of america's missile defense system the us and says it's designed to counter a possible attack from iran or north korea peace analyst gagnon tells r t that's not what the shield is all about. us is using nato and nato expansion as the i think the poor of the caribbean draw you know other countries like turkey in romania making them feel like they're going to be taken care of by the european union. but clearly we're talking about here is major tensions in the region between the united states missile defense deployments that are now going into poland. and other countries in the coming years as well as nato expansion throughout the region we're seeing basically encircled in russia at the same time

the u.s. is doing the same thing to china with its bases in missile defense deployments in japan south korea okinawa. the u.s. is deploying patriot missile the systems on your i want and so this is clearly trying to control and you can see in both russia and china. more of the week's top stories still to come including is storage the launch of iran's first nuclear plant . the russian built we share but still it is successfully wired into the into iran's national grid with the deal to spread to send the spent fuel rod so it can be used to make atomic weapons. so this is a dream seems a european energy majors sign up to the second project to get russian gas directly into europe but sons of the want to keep their supplier options open till it's plainly and. before we get to that the u.k. and russia made moves to patch things up between them with

a visit to the kremlin by british prime minister david cameron this week leaders of both countries agree that there are no result issues shouldn't get in the way of progress it was the first official visit to russia by a british pm in six years relations between the two soured over the murder of former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six but david cameron and to be cremated have agreed to case should not hold back their partnership dr patrick fuller who's worked extensively in science and technology projects between the u.k. and russia sees big potential ahead. russia has taken the first steps in establishing the new business center at skolkovo establishing what is going to be i suppose a kind of silicon valley there and british involvement in that is going to be absolutely key in terms of developing companies developing business and helping russian high tech businesses expand outside russia into markets in europe russia remains

a kind of aladdin's cave where there are all kinds of interesting things to be found the legacy of the soviet research institutes and a first rate mathematics science and engineering education system means that there are all kinds of people ideas intellectual property that remain in russia to be discovered and exploitive and that i think is really key to the interesting future. russia has in store in this whole area as ethnic tensions on serbia's border with a breakaway kosovo mount belgrade chief negotiator is urging for calm on both sides to find a diplomatic solution broke out after a kosovo police backed by a nato led forces took over two disputed border posts that were previously under-served control r.t. sarah ferguson or. you can see the sign put up by kafeel forces 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 volved wire fences that they've got the sandbags as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricade at the ski to 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 they'll be lots more people coming to the defense as well to take a vote of these control points what they see the ethnic said 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 of the government. to try and take these places resulted in the death of the policemen is actually relatively quiet here what we've seen is a huge number of. i think that is turning out at these barricades that what we've got at the moment is a standoff situation is being called

a war of nerves because of the checkpoints of the guard case is the serbian protesters and in the case all forces at the actual crossing themselves ok no one wants to make a meal and although the words being quite diplomatic from what we've heard and they sayd this calls for calm and for peace but of course the actions these seem quite different and there still seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved political analyst i would sort of part it says the nato led mission in kosovo is violating the u.n. mandate or failing to maintain neutrality. ok for meeting nato has absolutely overstepped their mandate their un mandate is clear they're supposed to be neutral down there they're supposed to be keeping the peace they're not supposed to be taking anyone's side they're clearly taking the albanian side to the secession is the government in the capital of kosovo we have the security council were we have five states each with veto power we have three western states and two man was

through states so really if the west decides to support any unilateral action. you can't stop it so it's not surprising they've been sponsoring the independents for years now and they are actually thinking that there are entering the endgame now and they're actually doing a hard push for it right now. this commentary from political analyst alexander parish in belgrade. iran's first nuclear energy plant went online monday the only such facility in the entire middle east the russian built reactors are working at forty percent capacity right now and should reach full potential in december moscow says it will continue to provide help and fuel for the plant till iran can take full control in twenty fifteen western nations have long been worried about the country's atomic program claiming it's a cover for making nuclear bombs and weapons which tehran has repeatedly denied political science political scientist alley photo and as yod from university of

london tells r.t. that without evidence iran has a right to peaceful nuclear energy. we have now a decades long standoff between iran and the west and over the iranian nuclear program this has been very hyped up. the nuclear issue for political reasons in order to be able to garner support to put pressure on iran if you cannot control or influence a country you might go for isolation and weakening of the country in the best way to do that is through economic sanctions economic sanctions and if we just listen to the most authoritative source when it comes to analyzing the iranian nuclear program which is the international atomic energy agency and if we read their reports we see that there is no evidence for any weaponization and also this is confirmed by numerously and numerous occasions by the u.s.

intelligence services and very recently so as well so the world has to face that iran as other developed countries has a nuclear program which is peaceful according. cording to all the evidence that we have. stay with us here on r t still ahead this hour the italian town that wants to run for rome fed up with battered by the rest of italy's floundering economy one sleepy little community is deciding to go it alone plus. taking an egg seclusion excursion meet the sure noble tourists who are endangering their health for a holiday despite radiation risks. but first russia and its key european gas customers sealed a twenty five billion dollar energy deal this week and the soon to be built south stream pipeline will pop russian gas straight into europe a year round moscow has spent the last four years agreeing on the details with its partners who want guarantees of nonstop supplies to flow have been disrupted

several times in the past along current pipelines due to spats between russia and transit countries belarus and ukraine south stream will deliver gas along the bottom of the black sea bypassing any possible political barriers german french and italian firms have now signed up to the project which is due to be finished by two thousand and fifteen and energy analysts julian leases europe is still wary of becoming too dependent on russia. you know when you're suggesting that russia will not be a major and probably the major supplier of gas to europe now and in the future perhaps that's not seen disputes. what europe is trying to ease to add. variety to sources of gas supply it doesn't want to be overly dependent on russian gas in exactly the same way that it doesn't want to become agreement on north african gas or indeed on north sea gas and what he's seeking to do is east

could find a balance between a variety of suppliers delivering gas through variety of routes and nobody's disputing among them and here i see russian will and will continue to be because the most important. agree prime minister has canceled a trip to the u.n. general assembly meetings in the u.s. to deal with his country's worsening debt battle greece only has enough cash to see it through the next few weeks and eurozone finance ministers are for now sitting on the eight billion euro second bailout payment they say the country is far behind on its lending targets and as mr serious of an important deadline greece will now if to wait till october to find out whether it will get a second load and says it's on the verge of being unable to repay the interest on its massive debt or some experts though it's too late to save the greek economy and it must exit the eurozone. the greek economy is in an outright depression now keep the shrinking at the moment seven to eight percent on an annual basis

unemployment is officially at sixteen percent but the reality is more close to twenty five percent what we hear from people from the i.m.f. informally is that the budget situation is out of control so there's no way that greek can rescan a staple in this situation unless there's a somewhat orderly exit from the eurozone followed by a huge devaluation of the new greek currency i think we have passed the point now where we can argue that we can safely lease within the euro zone greece will ask let's see if it can be organized in an orderly way but the risk is of course that there will be contagion in the direction of countries like for example portugal maybe island and of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries like spain. meanwhile across the ionian sea italy's parliament has agreed on a fifty four billion euro package of cuts to try and stop the rot from engulfing

europe's third largest economy this includes changes to pensions reducing government spending at a tax on the rich but it's a step too far for some italians artie's ivor bennett discovered a town that is turning its back on iran. welcome to feel it in a small town in the middle of italy it also claims to be an independent principality and to prove it it's even started printing its own money a man on a new note says town mayor lucas a lhari now self-proclaimed prince i guess everyone dreams of being a prince when they're a little boy and so did i now i get to live that dream filipinos going solo in protest over government plans to slash council funding he wants mall towns to merge having the number of local authorities with a population of just six hundred filipino and its mayor of for the chop.

it's a terrible idea because it makes no economic sense we have everything here to be autonomous and besides our neighboring towns are at least thirty kilometers away so it's not practically possible it wouldn't even save that much money most regional administrations do nothing to get rid of them instead italy's in deep debt one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. the second highest in europe but unions are furious with the cuts accusing the government of punishing those already at their poorest even some of silvio berlusconi's own allies now oppose them with amendments piling up but filipinos fed up determined to be the next san marino a constitutional republic within italy that has no national debt a rare thing in europe the methinks the town can live off its natural resources of wood and water but currently profits go to private companies there are constitutional hurdles but since autonomy is not illegal it could just be

a matter of time at the moment these notes are legal tender just souvenirs but the plan is for two theory to be worth one euro and for this to be the only currency they could be spent in the shops and restaurants here be. business is always been slow in this sleepy town but shopkeepers hope the new money will bring new cash. i'm sure that once we start using the new currency the economic situation here will significantly improve it will have a positive effect on tourism of course attracting more people to the town. far from being a p.r. stunt filipino means business and berlusconi knows it he's visiting the town later this month to stave off the rebellion but he'll have a fight on his hands philip tino's the source of rome's water supply and that may is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants i've given it r t filipino italy of all the places you might expect on

a list of the world's most exotic tourist destinations are sure noble nuclear disaster state makes a surprising appearance twenty five years after the world's worst nuclear accident the exclusion zone seems to be pulling people in or other than driving them away but as are things like sierra ships europe or us from ukraine the hazardous holidays are a double edged sword. these cars were once heavily affected by nuclear radiation now the radiator for a different reason part of an exhibition in key of dedicated to the clear rubble of the one nine hundred eighty six chernobyl fallout over the years the chernobyl museum in ukraine's capital kiev has become one of the top tourist attractions especially in april this year when the world markets twenty fifth anniversary of the disaster but for those craving for the firsthand post-apocalyptic experience looking at the exhibition here has not been enough. and there is an adventurous alternative to contaminated zone around should a novel itself over the past decade stories have been floor can hear more than ten

thousand of them each year that's why forbes magazine named the dead zone one of the world's most exotic tourist destinations. alexander a former resident of the ghost town of prepared has been organizing these stories for several years he told us that visitors are always fascinated by what they see although all their motivations for making the trip have always varied a. you people have different reasons. some want to see what an apocalypse could look like and some want to feel the history. for some it's their childhood like the atmosphere of the soviet union has been preserved but for me it's more important not why they come here but what effect it has on them. but since june this radioactive tourism has been suspended the prosecutor general's office conducted checks and ruled that emergencies ministry had broken the law with

these trips as well as making an unhealthy profit every tourist to the zone has been paying around a hundred u.s. dollars to do so equating to a multi-million dollar revenue every year. we urge the ministry to inform the government of every dollar earned by these trips we know that a lot of money has been made but we have no idea in whose pockets it ended up why not put the money into the budget and use it to solve the problems. the ministry is defined it says it's stuck by the law it claims these trips are a vital way of educating the world on how to avoid such disasters the chernobyl zone will never again be inhabited where experts say it could still serve other purposes. due to decontamination procedures almost half of the area has acceptable levels of radiation that's why we can use this large spaces to build solar and wind power stations and even grow old be

a fuel there the emergencies ministry has now filed a lawsuit in a bid to resume tours to the contaminated zone and the court is expected to start hearings in mid september ukraine's thirty kilometer nuclear wasteland will remain closed to the public until then with the debate remains very much open. looks you a chance to see it was you from kiev and. ukraine. remember we're on air and online around the clock at r.t. dot com where there's plenty more stories video and analysis a click away looting this grabbing the bull by the horns in lower manhattan as hundreds protest the banking system that's left many jobless and homeless with a dentist demonstration and occupy wall street thoughts. seem to be green world carfree days ahead with russia's long and eco week to get drivers to ditch the wheels and saddle up first cycling. to see that in moscow

turning now to some other stories making headlines across the globe but nevada air show tragedy has now claimed nine lives as investigators look into how a vintage aircraft lost control and plunged into spectators dozens more were injured when the world war two era plane slammed into a box seat area in front of the main grandstand it's not mechanical problems were to blame meanwhile there was a similar incident in west virginia when another vintage plane crashed and burst into flames killing the pilot no spectators were hurt in that incident. venezuela's ailing president says he'll return to cuba for a fourth and possibly final round of chemotherapy who shot as underwent surgery in june to remove a tumor although it's not known for what type of cancer he's being treated job as says he plans to finish his treatments soon and promises to run for re-election next year despite health concerns. and it's not barack obama will announce monday they'll be a tax hike for americans earning more than a million dollars a year it's designed to even out the tax burden between the wealthy and middle

income earners and work toward the country's plan to reduce its long term deficit us media is reporting that obama will call this proposal the buffett rule referring to billionaire investor warren buffett whose repeatedly raise the issue in the past . and in a few minutes the un's woman in charge of the world heritage tells us how antic games are jeopardizing global culture it's coming away after a recap of our top stories and today's headlines in a few months. this

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