the. latest news in the week's top stories khadafi is remaining supporters but fierce resistance in three libyan cities the people of tripoli who still support the ousted colonel say they're gripped by fear and face of pressure. as nato moves ahead with fresh agreements on putting u.s. missiles in eastern europe there are security concerns i think kremlin call for urgent talks. moscow and london sweeping their sour relations as david cameron makes the first trip to russia by a british prime minister in six years. and peacekeepers in kosovo on high alert as ethnic tension in serbia as a breakaway republic reaches a boiling point. ten

am in moscow treasure bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news here on r t turning first to libya where fierce fighting is raging on between pro and anti kadafi forces loyalist troops are making a last stand in three cities that are under heavy assault by relentless fighters who are being backed who are backing the country's new government searched bani walid and sob now witnessing house to house battles with hundreds of civilians caught in the crossfire it's not colonel gadhafi who's 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 it's artie's marie if an ocean reports there are some libyans who hope for the colonel's return. and months after tripoli fell into rebels' hands those who backed the old regime remain defiant but fearful in

parts of the city the rebels triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened or did so somewhere else. we will do anything from our only moammar even if we have to give our lives. seven support for the ousted leader it is solved once they see our camera yeah. like one with a we're going to go with it tell them. why. it's the same situation with others two. 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 put it out on camera no no thanks if i be infront of the camera they will send the bullet where. the criminals you don't know them you call them the rebels hey guys do you remember the black guy he was arrested a few days ago after here appearing on t.v. don't do that you flags new slogans new speeches. and the rebels were out

celebrating again this week when they had of the national transitional council believe is new authority arise in the capital before large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who's really. those who don't support mr far those all you and who we used to see all across the city proudly waving green flags just weeks ago back in kentucky now trying not to leave their own backyards here. you. guys. put. it very. tough it is effectively gone then you also artists have settled down here in the capital tripoli people are chanting that is free country but it seems that there is at least one thing that still remains of all of libya here. 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 if we see something in favor of gadhafi they can kill us and the rest of us of course money are in fear. nineteen year old says many of his friends have been arrested recently for making critical statements about the 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. the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with killings to intimidate through fear their hands are covered in blood and misty international has recently accused both gadhafi is regime and the one which replaced it of committing war crimes including killings

and torture of military prisoners and civilians these are being felt by a some here that more his in-store and regional shin r t three pally libya. we know is pledging to keep up its airstrikes to support and take up the forces for as long as it sees fit libya's new governing body also gets a seat anywhere in syria british and french leaders pay the national transitional council a friendly visit this week but africa analysts are your only as a q we think that has more to do with securing deals than securing its. 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 well lead and search and. is very much indicative of the fact that this war is by no means subtle the visit on a part of nikolaus not cosi of france and david cameron of britain is is an attempt to shore up this. takeover of the most all rich and the most prosperous country only after the continent opinion there from u.s. based africa analyst you know me as a kiwi stay with us r t for all the latest on the conflict or in libya. moscow was reiterating its deep concerns over plans to house u.s. missiles in poland following a 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 guarantees that russian security won't be at risk.

warsaw and washington's out by putting missiles on polish soil follows deals sealed this week with romania and turkey agreed to host parts of the u.s. missile defense system the u.s. insists it's designed to counter a possible attack from iran or north korea from the onset of a project russia voiced concern that the shield may upset europe's delicate military balance investigative journalist pepe escobar thinks from moscow has a right to be worried. some of the best strategists military strategists in the world already russia and they know that the run sure still holds they don't have to capitally just to attack iraq even if they wanted to number two he may be a very hard core rejean but they're not suicidal so this excuse against him i'm going to be a jog or it is that i it's a lot of how many it's really part of the us is absolutely ridiculous do you know it's easy for the sure he's against russia and eventually against

china as well as if china or russia would have eighty interest in trying to undermine the european union which are excellent the markets for goals and where they sell most of what their products in the case of china. see with us here on our t.v. still to come the historic launch of iran's first nuclear power plant the russian built care facility has successfully wired up to iran's national grid to deal with and with a deal to send spent fuel abroad so it can't be used to make atomic weapons plus. south stream steams ahead european energy majors signed up to the second project to get russian gas directly to europe but some still want to keep their supply options open we'll explain more. but first the u.k. and russia have made a move to patch things up between them with a visit to the kremlin by british prime minister david cameron this week and years of both countries agreed that they're on resolving issues shouldn't stand in the way of progress as was the first official visit to russia by british pm in six

years relations between the two had soured over the murder of former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six but david cameron to be treatment that agreed the case should not hinder our partnership dr patrick fuller who's worked extensively in science and technology projects between u.k. and russia sees 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 promptly is developing business and helping the russian high tech business is expand outside russia into markets in europe russia remains a kind of aladdin's weather up 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 exploited them that i think is really key to the interesting future but hot russia has in store in this whole area as ethnic tensions on syria's border with a breakaway kosovo mount belgrade chief negotiator is urging for karma on both sides and to seek a diplomatic solution violence broke out after kosovo police backed by nato led forces took over to disport a border disputed border post previously under certain control r.t. sarah ferguson or. you can see the sign put up by the castell forces it's a warning to the ethnics that protest is ok for the nato a peacekeeping mission has been working here at the border point with you like they call that both lie offenses out there go the sound bites 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 moment they've made it very very clear that if anyone tries to leave 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 vow of peace control point what they see the i think the population here in the north as an extension of christine is control over the disputed territory now amid concerns. of what we saw in july when violent clashes over the course think of the making of me to try and take the place resulted in the death of the policeman is actually relatively quiet here but we seen as a huge number of. i think it's turning out at these barricades that what we've got at the moment is a standoff situation is being called a lord knows because at the checkpoints at the barricades. and then the case full force is at the actual crossing and styles but no one wants to make

a mean and all day the way it's being quite diplomatic from what we've heard in bayside this calls for calm and for peace but of course the actions the scene quite different than there still seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved iran's first nuclear energy plant went online monday the only sort facility in the entire middle east the russian got reactors are working at forty percent capacity right now when should reach full power in december moscow says it will continue to provide help and fuel for the plant to iran takes full control in two thousand and fifteen western nations have long been concerned about the country's atomic program claiming it's a cover for making nuclear bombs a claim not to run has repeatedly denied political scientist all the photos. from university of london tells r.t. that without evidence iran has the same right to peaceful nuclear energy. we have now a decades long standoff between iran and the west and over it 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. a new 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. to all the evidence that we have. stay with us here on our t.v.

still to come the italian town that runs to run from rome fed up with being battered by the rest of italy's economy one sleepy little community is deciding to go it alone. taking in exclusion excursion sure noble tourists who are endangering their health for a holiday despite radiation risks. but first in latvia a party backed by the large russian community they're one of majority in a snap problem an election with almost all the votes in the harmony center party won twenty nine percent it's the first time a russian supporting party has led the polls in the baltic state since it gained independence in one thousand nine hundred one following the soviet union's collapse but speculation is growing that rival ravi and politicians may form a coalition to keep the pro russia party out of government about one third of the country's population are russian speakers many of them are non citizens and have no voting rights. russia and its key european gas customers sealed a twenty five billion dollar energy deal this week and soon to be built south

stream pipeline will pump russian gas straight into europe year round moscow spent the last four years agreeing the details with its partners who want guarantees of nonstop supply the flow have been disrupted several times in the past along current pipelines because of 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 signed up to the project which is due to be racked up by twenty fifteen energy analysts julian least says that europe is still wary of becoming too dependent on russia. well nobody in europe is suggesting that russia will not agree a major and probably the major supplier of gas to europe now and in the future it's not seen dispute. what europe is trying to do to add. variety to its sources of gas supply it doesn't want to try on overly dependent on

russian gas in exactly the same way that it doesn't want. one north african or indeed on north sea gas what it seeking to do is find a balance between a variety of suppliers delivering gas through routes and nobody is disputing good variety russian will resound will continue to be the most important. the greek prime minister has canceled his trip to the u.n. general assembly meetings in the united states to deal with his country's worsening get that greece only has enough cash on hand to see it through the next few weeks and eurozone finance ministers are for now sitting on the eight billion second year eight billion euro second bailout payment they say the treasury is far behind on and spending cuts targets and missed a series of deadlines greece will now have to wait till october to find out whether they'll get a second. says it's either verge of being unable to pay the interest on its massive

debt or some exports it's too late to save the greek economy and it must exit the euro zone for its own good. and the greek economy is in an outright depression now keep the shrinking at the moment at seven eight percent on an annual basis unemployment is officially at sixteen percent but in reality it's more close to twenty 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 again greece again escape from 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 greece within the euro zone greece will have to accept 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 ireland 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 with fifty four billion euro package of cuts to try and keep the rot from engulfing europe's third largest economy it was included changes to pensions reducing government spending and a tax on a rich but it's a step too far for a summit aryans as i bet it discovered in one town that's trying to turn its back on. welcome to filipino a small town in the middle of italy that also claims to be an independent principality and support it it's even started printing its own money the man on the 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 boring 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 all towns to merge having the number of local authorities with a population of just six hundred tino and its mayor a for the chop with. it's a terrible idea because it makes no economic sense we have everything here to be autonomous and besides the 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 we should 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 a 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 the terman to be the next san marino a constitutional republic within italy that has no national debt

a rare thing in europe methinks the town can live off its natural resources of wood and water but currently. if it's go to private companies there are constitutional hurdles but since autonomy is not illegal it could just be a matter of time but the moment these notes aren't legal tender they 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 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 and he'll have a fight on his hands filipinos the sorts of rome's water supply and that may is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants either bennett r.t. filipino italy. remember we're on air and on line around the clock in our t. dot com where there's plenty more stories blogs and analysis here's what's a click away right now. in the bull by the horns in lower manhattan as hundreds protest at the banking system that's left many jobless and homeless with a demonstration occupy wall street lots. of it being seen to be green world carfree day coming up in the rushes even launched an eco week aimed at getting its many many drivers off the roads and onto the saddle of a bicycle. seat. of all the places you might expect to appear on a list of the world's most exotic destinations for sure noble nuclear disaster site makes a surprising appearance twenty five years after the world's nuclear world's worst

nuclear accident the exclusion zone seems to be pulling people in or out of driving them away but authorities like say are ships he reports from ukraine the house of his holidays are a double edged sword. these cars were once heavily affected by nuclear radiation now the radiation for a different reason part of an exhibition in key of did it to clear up all the 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 marked the twentieth 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 if you can terminated zone around should not bill itself over the past decades tourists have been flocking here 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 former resident of the girls down of prepared has been organizing these schools for several years he told us that this there is are always fascinated by what they see although all their motivations for making the trip have always varied . you know you people have different reasons for. someone to see what an apocalypse could look like. someone to feel the history. of 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 the emergencies ministry had grown all these trips as well as making an unhealthy profit every tourist to the zone has been

paying around one 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 sort the problems. the ministry is defined as it stuck by the law it claims these troops are a vital way of educating the world on how to avoid such disasters which are not balls on will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes. to decontamination procedures almost half of the area has acceptable levels of radiation that's why we can use this watch on spaces to build solar and wind power stations and even grow be a fuel there the emergencies ministry has now filed a lawsuit in a bid to resume tours through the contaminated zone and

a 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. alexy russia's tea party. and chernobyl in ukraine. turned out to. some other stories making headlines across the globe the nevada air show tragedy that has now claimed nine ride as investigators look into how vintage aircraft lost control and plunged into spectators dozens more were injured when the world war two era plane slammed into a box seat in front of the main grandstand it's not my tactical problems are to blame there's been a similar incident in west virginia when a vintage plane crashed and burst into flames killing the pilot no spectators there were hurt. venezuela's ailing president says he'll return to cuba for a fourth and possibly final round of chemotherapy who go chavez underwent surgery in june to remove a tumor although it's not known for what type of cancer he's being treated chavez

says he plans to finish his treatments soon and promises to run for reelection next year despite rider concerns for his health. and it's thought barack obama will announce monday a tax hike for the americans are 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 reducing the country's long term deficit and us media is reporting that obama will call his proposal the buffett rule referring to billionaire investor warren buffett who has repeatedly raised the issue in the past . just ahead the un's woman in charge of world heritage tells us how empty and eaves are jeopardizing global culture is coming your way in the next hour you know coming away after a short break stay with us.

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