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 sirte 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 siege cities meanwhile life is returning to a kind of normal in the capital but is r.t.m. or if an ocean reports there are some libyans who hope for the colonel's return. and months off to tripoli fell into rebels hands those who back the old regime remain defiant. in parts of the city the rebels triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened or did so somewhere else. who will do anything for moammar and the memoir even if we have to give our own life's seven subpool to the ousted leader

just solves once they see how the camera. how we are telling me how could you tell the camera why. it's the same situation with alan is to. go if he's hundred percent dude we don't want this revolution we don't know the rebels we want them to go away. we are from television so i couldn't tell it on camera no no thanks if i pee in front of the camera they will send the bullet to my well or oh 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 appeared on t.v. don't do that new flags new slogans new speeches. the rebels were out celebrating again this week when the head of the national transitional council libya's new authority arrives in the capital before large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who's really. those who don't support mr fahd

those only you and who we used to see all across the city proudly waving green flags just weeks ago back in khadafi now trying not to leave their own backyards there. was. a very. tough it is effectively gone then you also have several down here in the capital tripoli people are chanting that is a new free country but it seems that there is at least one thing that still remains of all the beer 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 our opinion if we say something in favor

of gadhafi they can kill us and arrest us of course money or in fear. the nineteen year old says many of his friends have been arrested recently for making critical statements about new regime ironically we're talking just a kilometer away from one of the darkeys top secret jails for political prisoners known as abu sleen. the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with the killings to intimidate through fear their homes are covered in blogs and misty international has recently accused both conduct his regime and the one which you place to of committing war crimes including killings and torture of military prisoners and civilians these are being felt by some here that more his in-store. raef notion r t three pally libya. nato is pledging to keep up its airstrikes to support and take it out in forces for

as long as it sees fit libya's new governing body also gets a seat in the u.n. soon british and french leaders pay the national transitional council a friendly visit this week but africa analyst abayomi azikiwe we think that has 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 bani walid and sirte and. is very much indicative of the fact

that this war is by no means settled the visit on the part of cosi of france and david cameron of britain this is an attempt to shore up this. takeover of the most all rich and the most prosperous country on the after the continent opinion there from u.s. based africa analyst you know me as a kid we stay with us on our t.v. for all the latest from the conflict or in libya. moscow is reiterating its deep concerns over plans to have his u.s. missiles in poland following 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 would agree 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 at the shield may upset europe's delicate military balance investigative journalist pepe escobar thinks moscow has a right to be worried. some of the best strategists military strategists in the world are in russia and they know that iran first of all they don't have the cap abilities to attack iran even if they wanted to number two they may be a very hard core regime but they're not suicidal so this excuse again is to ahmadinejad or against that ayatollah how many from the part of the u.s. is absolutely ridiculous and they know it's basically the shield is against russia and eventually i guess china as well as if china or russia will to have any interest in trying to undermine the european union which are excellent markets for bowls and where they sell most of their products in the case of china. stay

with us here on r t 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. so stream steams ahead european energy majors signed up to the second project to get russian gas directly into 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 leaders of both countries agreed that their unresolved issues should stand in the way of progress it was the first official visit to russia by a 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 true medvedev agreed the case should not hinder our partnership dr patrick

fuller who's worked extensively in science and technology projects between the u.k. and russia seems potential ahead. of russia's taken the first steps in establishing the new business center at skolkovo establishing what he's 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 development companies development business helping the russian high tech businesses expand outside russia into markets in europe russia reminds a kind of a lot of the ins kind of weather all kinds of interesting things to be found the legacy of the soviet research institutes and the 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 that.

russia has in store in this whole area. as authentic tensions on serbia's border with the breakaway kosovo mount belgrade chief negotiator is urging for calm on both sides and to seek a diplomatic solution violence broke out after kosovo police backed by nato led forces took over to disport and border disputed border posts previously under certain control r.t. sara for more. you can see the sign put up by the k full forces 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 they go that both wire fences out they go the sandbags as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricade at these disputed border points not so many of the men and they've made it very very clear that if anyone tries to remove the barricades that they've made that they're willing to defend and they'll be lots more people coming to the defense as well to take

a vote of these control points what they see the essex population here in the north as an extension of prishtina is control over the disputed territory now amid concerns repeat of what we saw in july when violent clashes over the course think of the making of me to try and take place resulted in the deaths of the policemen is actually relatively quiet what we've seen is a huge number of. i think. these barricades but what we've got at the moment is the standoff situation is a lord knows because the base the checkpoints at the barricades. and then the case full force is at the actual crossing. but no one wants to make him either and they the way it's being quite diplomatic from what we've heard him based sites those calls the calm and the peace but of course the actions the scene quite different than this though seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved iran's first

nuclear energy plant went on line monday the only such facility in the entire middle east the russian built 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 that to iran has repeatedly denied political scientist. told those yod 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. numerously and on numerous occasions why 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 wants to run from rome but up with being battered by the rest of italy's floundering economy one sleepy little community is deciding to go it alone. taking an exclusion excursion to meet the 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 their one majority in a snap parliamentary 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 arrive a lot of the in 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 the 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 had 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 wrapped up by twenty fifteen and energy analyst julian least says that europe is still wary of becoming too dependent on russia. nobody in europe is suggesting that russia will not be a major and probably the major supplier of gas to europe now and in the future that's not seen dispute. what europe is trying to do is to add. variety to sources of gas supply it doesn't want to become overly dependent on russian gas in exactly the same way that he doesn't want to become overly dependent on north african gas or indeed on north sea gas what he's seeking to do is to find a balance between a variety of suppliers delivering gas through

a variety of routes and nobody's disputing that among that variety russian will ease and 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 debt battle 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. billion euro second bailout payment they say the country is falling behind on its 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 loan says it's all over being unable to pay the interest on its massive debt for some exports it's too late to save the greek economy and it must exit the euro zone for its own good. or the greek economy is in an outright depression now g.d.p. is shrinking at the moment seven to eight percent on an annual basis unemployment

is officially at sixteen percent but in reality it's 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 greece can 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 see for greece within the euro zone greece will have to exit 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 to a fifty four billion euro package of cuts to try and keep the rot from engulfing

europe's third largest economy this includes changes to pensions reducing government spending and a tax on a rich but it's a step too far for a summit hellions as iver better discovered in one town that's trying to turn its back on a roll. welcome to filipino a small town in the middle of italy that also claims to be an independent principality and to prove 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 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 small towns to merge having the number of local authorities with a population of just six hundred philip tino and it's mayor 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 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 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 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 prop. it's 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 please note some legal tender they just souvenirs but the plan is for two theory to 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 the track to meet 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 guillotine as the source of rome's water supply and that may is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants either then it's. filipino italy remember we're on air and online around the clock at r.t.

dot com where there's plenty more stories blogs and analysis here's what's a click away right now. driving the ball by the horns in lower manhattan as hundreds protest at a banking system that's left many jobless and homeless with a demonstration occupy wall street what's. being seen to be green world carfree day coming up in russia's even larger 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 the sheer 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 rather than driving them away but as artie's like say our share of secure porous from ukraine the house with his 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 up of 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 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 the contaminated zone around should not bill itself over the past decade tourists 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 goes down of prepared has been organizing these tours 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. look.

you people have different reasons. some want 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 which was effect it has on them. but since june that this radioactive tourism has been suspended the prosecutor general's office conducted checks and ruled that the 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 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 solve the problems. the ministry is defined it says it stuck by the law it claims these troops are a vital way of educating the world on how to avoid such disasters the chernobyl zone will never again be inhabited but 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 be a fuel their emergencies ministry has now filed a lawsuit in a bid to resume tours through 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 but the debate remains very much open. as the r.t. reported from kiev and chernobyl in ukraine. turned out as. other stories making

headlines across the globe the nevada air show tragedy that has now claimed nine lives 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 mechanical 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 re-election next year despite wider 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 more earners and work toward reducing the country's long term deficit the 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 . and just ahead the un's woman in charge of world heritage tells us how antique thieves are jeopardizing global culture is coming your way in the next hour coming away after a short break stay with us. in

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thirty am in moscow or bring you today's top stories and a look back at the week's news and your headlines he's remaining supporters put up fierce resistance in three libyan cities while his remaining supporters in tripoli say they're gripped by fear and repression loyalist forces are deeply entrenched in sirte bani walid and sob but gadhafi whereabouts remain unknown. as nato was ahead with fresh agreements on putting american missiles in eastern europe there are security concerns at the kremlin and a call for urgent talks or maybe a hole in it and turkey are poised to host elements of the defense shield that moscow feels could neutralize its nuclear arsenal. moscow and london put deals before differences both david cameron securing multi-million dollar contracts during the first trip by british prime minister to russia in the six years both sides shelled their disagreements even though the two thousand and six in one day.