latest news in the week's top stories put off these remaining supporters but a fierce resistance in three libyan cities while the people of tripoli who still support yost a colonel say they're gripped by fear and face repression. as nato moves ahead with fresh agreements on putting u.s. missiles in eastern europe there are security concerns of the kremlin and a call for urgent talks. moscow in london put deals before differences with david cameron securing multi-million dollar contracts during the first trip by british prime minister the russian in six years. peacekeepers in kosovo on high alert as ethnic tension in serbia as a breakaway republic reaches a boiling point. eleven

am in moscow i met tries to bring you today's top stories in the look back at the week's news here on r t turning first to libya where fears for writing a fierce fighting rages on between pro and anti kadafi forces loyalist troops are making their last stand in three cities that are under heavy assault by the relentless fighters who are backing the country's new government search bani walid and are now witnessing house to house battles with hundreds of civilians caught in the crossfire it's not colonel gadhafi himself still on the run could be hiding in one of the besieged cities meanwhile life is returning to a kind of normality in the capital but it's hard he's maria the notion of reports there are some libyans who are ready hope for khadafy return and months off to tripoli fell into rebels hands those who back steele who remain defiant and it's

fearful. in parts of the city the rebels' triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened or did so somewhere else. that we will do anything from our only momar even if we have to give our lifes. seven support for the ousted leader it is solved once they see our camera they are. like one with a weird career so we didn't tell the camera 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 i did tell it on camera no no thanks if i pee in front of the 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 the black guy he was arrested a few days ago after here appearing on t.v.

don't do that you flags new slogans news peaches. and the rebels were out celebrating again this week when the head of the national transitional council the business authority arrives in the capital in four large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who's really. the those who don't support mr fogg those are 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 are things have settled 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 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 if we see something in favor of gadhafi it can kill us and the rest of us of course money and fear. 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. 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 amnesty international has recently accused both gadhafi regime and the one which replaced it of committing war crimes including killings and torture

of military prisoners and civilians these are being felt place some here the more his in-store regional shin r t tripoli libya. and us was quick to support revolutions in libya and egypt as the expression as the democratic expression of the people's will and it shouldn't start there with calls for syria's regime to step down to one that could leave iran out in the cold in its own neighborhood are young pics or. as nations in the middle east and north africa are torn between the struggle to bring about change and the struggle not to let their chains ruin their lives washington views the arab spring as an opportunity to finally see some of its longtime folds crumble he'll no. iran is not an arab country the arab spring. and i think in many ways it's a matter of trying for that kind of change. and revolution. in the ones under the

umbrella of the arab revolutions washington is also beating the drums of regime change in syria iran's closest ally in the region violence within the country has been widely condemned countries like russia and china call for both sides in syria to talk and end the bloodshed while america is blaming our side alone i think. just like a dolphin or not let's hope that russia is next in line they were overthrown khadafi they're going to have a proxy or client government in tripoli the next step is syria they want to overthrow syrian take advantage of any movement that exists in syria to overthrow the assad government now they have a more democratic government a more humane government but a government that is allied with the united states and after syria the next target will be around itself watching regimes go down one by one american politicians are filled with new hopes and aspirations some went as far as to predict the arab spring will spread all across the world what this is all about is the year of

spring and it is next and even in places like china and russia and other places they are very uneasy this is about people aspiring for freedom and that's what the libyan people are just itching to. that's wishful thinking on the part of john mccain but it speaks volumes to where the real orientation is in washington not just of the republicans but the democrats too so they would like to overthrow the government in china they would like to overthrow the government in russia they would like to overthrow the government of venezuela in cuba or wherever people are independent of the dictates of washington but when it comes to syria and iran washington doesn't seem to be just fantasizing about revolutions by throwing its support behind revolution makers and really say washington is seeking to increase its. insane controlling these countries let's look at how things have been in the control department so far it thousands protest against the us backed military there that still in power last week

a gyptian storm piece really embassy enraged by the killing of five egyptian border guards in the lead here or washington supported leadership is taking over put the country is at risk of plunging into tribal war syria the opposition includes those with radical agendas so the aftermath of the so-called arab spring remains very murky and difficult it washington seems to be using the arab spring to fulfill its long time goals but the fear is that it might end up getting the opposite of what it wishes for and undermining the whole region i'm going to count reporting from washington. moscow was reiterating its deep concerns over plans to house u.s. missiles in poland following the announcement that parts of the defense shield should be in place could be in place by twenty eighteen the foreign ministry in moscow said on saturday that urgent talks with nato were necessary as well as hard guarantees that russian security won't be at risk warsaw and washington's outline for putting missiles on polish soil is a deal sealed this week with romania and turkey were greeted host parts of the u.s.

missile defense system america insists it's designed to counter a possible strike from iran or north korea but professor peter gurley you know from paris west university believes the absence of any real threat to the u.s. or its allies puts a question mark over who the shield is supposedly protecting from. i don't think it's really a military necessity no one will believe that it was a possibility of iran attacking europe its nice size did not reach could not reach western europe so it was the coin was kraut in the czech republic non is a new deployment in rumania but i think this takes up surely political washington probably wants to reassure the former satellite countries there so you tune in so it's a political move but hardly a military necessity and also considering the state of the us economy i don't think it's a wise move in financial terms when obama had this reset policy it would russia at

least he was achieving something corporation russia and key issues but this new deployment is aware of antagonizing russia which is going to turn into maybe some kind of new arms race which is totally pointless not only because the effectiveness of that shield is problematic to govern but also because it's going to cost a lot of money and unnecessarily because frankly i don't think iran is in a position to attack anyone in the west. stay with us here on our t.v. more still to come including the historical launch of iran's first nuclear power plant were built to share facility is successfully wired to the country's national grid with a deal to spend to send its spent fuel abroad so it can be used to make atomic weapons plus. so dreams steam ahead european energy majors signed up to the second project to get russian gas directly into europe but sun still want to keep their

supply options open the explained. but first the u.k. and the russian 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 their unresolved issues shouldn't get in the way of progress this is the first official visit to russia by british prime minister 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 eight but cameron and dmitri medvedev agreed the case should not hold back their mutual partnership dr patrick fellow who worked extensively in science and technology projects between russia and the u.k. 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 countries developing business and helping

russian high tech business is expand outside russia into markets in europe russia remains a kind of ally of the in trade whether of 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 that i think is really key to the interesting future but what russia has in store in this whole area. as ethnic tensions on serbia's border with breakaway kosovo now and now a great chief negotiator is urging for calm on both sides to find a diplomatic solution violence broke out after a kosovo police backed by nato led forces took over a two disputed border post previously under-served control or can sorrow for

a thousand more. you can see the sign put up by a full force is a warning to the ethnics that protest is ok for the nato a peacekeeping mission has been working here at the border points with you like they call that both wire fences out they've got the sound bags as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricaded beach to speak to border point not so many at the moment but 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 take a vote of these control points what they see the ethics population here in the north as an extension of christine 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 death of a policeman is actually being relatively quiet here what we seen is

a huge number of. ethnic servants turning out at these barricades but what we've got at the moment it's a standoff situation is a war with no it's because the basic checkpoints that the bad case is being processed and then the capel forces at the actual crossing. the no one wants to make a move and they the way it's being quite diplomatic from what we've heard on both sides there's calls for calm and for peace but of course the actions these things 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 plan went online monday the only source for saudi in the entire middle east the russian built reactors are working at forty percent capacity right now and should reach full power in december last year says it will continue to provide health and fuel for the plant until iran takes full control in two thousand and fifteen western nations of long been worried about the country's atomic program claiming it's a cover for making nuclear bombs which to iran has repeatedly denied political

scientist are you going to want to charge from the university of london tells r.t. that the absence of evidence iran has the same 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 canonic 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 you read their records we see that there is no evidence for any weaponization and also this is confirmed by numerously and numerous occasions 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. still ahead this hour the italian town that wants to run from rome fed up with being battered by the rest italy's flattery and how to meet one sleepy little community is deciding to go it alone plus. taking an exclusion excursion 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 there won a 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 russia supporting parties led the polls in the former soviet state since it gained independence but speculations are growing that rival lobby and politicians

may form a coalition to keep the pro russian party out of government about a third of the country's top elation are russian speakers many of them non-citizens who 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 to europe year round moscow was spent the last four years hammering out the details with its partners who want guarantees of nonstop supply flow had been disrupted several times in the past on current pipelines because of disputes between russia and transit countries belarus and ukraine so the stream will deliver gas along the bottom of the black sea bypassing possible political barriers german french and italian firms have now signed up to the project which is due to be wrapped up by twenty fifteen and energy analysts julian lees says europe is still wary though of becoming too dependent on russian. nobody in europe is suggesting that russia will not be

a major and probably three major supplier of gas to europe now and in the future it's not seem to see. what europe is trying to do is to add. variety to its sources of gas supply it doesn't want to be can ultimately dependent on russian gas in exactly the same way that it doesn't want to become overly dependent on north african gas or indeed on north sea gas seeking to do is case to find a balance between a variety of suppliers delivering stroup arrived here at roots and nobody's disputing. russian will ease and will continue to be with the most important. greece's prime minister has canceled his trip to the u.n. general assembly meetings in the u.s. to deal with his country's worsening debt crisis greece has only enough cash to see it for the next few weeks and eurozone finance ministers are for now sitting on the

set of the eight billion euro second ballot payment they say the country is far behind on its spending cuts targets and missed a series of deadlines greece will have to wait it out till october to see whether it'll get the second lower and says it's on the verge of being unable to pay the interest on its massive debt for some experts though it's too late to save the greek economy and it must exit the euro zone for its own good. but the greek economy is in an outright depression now. shrinking at the moment. and send them 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 greece an 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 from greece within the euro zone greece will a school 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 i will and then 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 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 the rich but it's a step too far for some italians as ivor bennett found out in a town that's trying to turn its back. welcome to phillip tino a small town in the middle of italy but 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 you're a little boy and so did i now i get to live that dream philip tino's 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 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 if you get rid of them instead of 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 the term and 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 aren't legal tender just souvenirs but the plan is to theory to be worth one euro and for this three the only currency they could be spent in the shops and restaurants here business is. always been slow in the 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 he 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 that sound later this month to stave off the rebellion and he'll have a fight on his hands filipinos the sorts of roads water supply and the mayor is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get what he wants either then it's hard to see filipino easily. remember we're on air and online around the clock at r.t. dot com where there's a bunch of stories for you a click away clued in this thriving of all by the horrors of lower manhattan as hundreds of protesters are banking system that's left many jobless and homeless with a protest the occupy wall street bus. seem to be green world carfree day coming up in russia is even launched an eco week to get drivers to ditch the wheels and saddle up for cycling. the doomed jet that crashed

killing an entire russian premier league ice hockey squad had suffered technical problems during take up there the first findings of the interstate aviation committee which is investigating the disaster its preliminary report says the forty two experienced an as yet unidentified resistance that prevented from doing enough speed to take off properly the speed was so low that the aircraft only managed to reach an altitude of six meters investigators are now trying to find out what was holding the plane back from getting to its correct speed and height the plane was carrying the leading russian ice hockey team lokomotiv when it came down on september seventh forty five people were aboard only one survived. all the places you might expect to appear on a list of the world's most exotic tourist destinations should obama nuclear disaster site makes a surprising appearance twenty five years after the world's worst nuclear accident the exclusion zone seems to be pulling people in rather than driving them away but as it is like the reports from ukraine the hazardous holidays

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 a cue 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 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 if you can terminated zone around should not be over the past decades 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 former resident of the girls down of prepared has been organizing these stories for several years he

told us that this is true as are always fascinated by what they see although all their motivations for making the trip have always varied. look. you people have different reasons for someone to see what an apocalypse could look like for someone to feel the history. which has so much 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 a prosecutor general's office conducted checks and ruled that the emergencies ministry had grown up in the lord with these trips as well as making an unhealthy profit every tourist to his own has been playing around a hundred us dollars to do so equating to a multi-million dollar revenue every year. we were to the ministry to inform the

governments of every dollar earned by the strip's we know that a lot of money has been mean but we have no idea in whose pockets it ended up why not put the money into the budget and use it to solve problems. that 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 which your novels on will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes. due to decontamination procedures almost half of there 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 old be a fuel there the 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 with the debate remains very much open. i

look serious as ski on sea reporting from kiev and chip in mobile in ukraine. stay with us here on r t coming up part two of our special report on how wars can leave fragile ecosystems struggling to survive first the headlines after a quick break.

well when one deals with water it has to realize that there's a tremendous amounts of damage that are done not just human damage but damage to the physical environment in which the battlefield takes place tremendous amounts of damage done by aerial bombs but napalm boy comforts that whether it's our sonic booms effect for me mammals or it's the burning oil field syria or iraq or it's destroyed reefs in the pacific for women purposes the list just goes on and on the geneva conventions of nineteen forty nine states that carrier shall be saved in the war to protect the involved and hence wide spread long term and severe damage to the united states although it is accepted almost all of the provisions protocol one has taken exception to that.