latest news in the week's top stories khadafi remaining supporters put up a fierce resistance in three libyan cities while the people of her believe who still support the ousted colonel say they are gripped by fear and base repression. as nato moves ahead with pressure agreements on putting u.s. missiles in eastern europe there are security concerns of a kremlin and a call for urgent talks. moscow in london said to put deals before differences with david cameron securing multi-million dollar contracts during the first trip by a british prime minister to russia in six years. plus peacekeepers in kosovo are on high alert as ethnic tension in serbia as a breakaway republic reaches

a boiling point. near it in moscow treasure bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news here on r t turning first to libya where fierce fighting rages on between pro and anti khadafi you 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 syria to bani walid and sob now witnessing house to house battles with hundreds of civilians caught in the crossfire and 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 something close to normal in the capital tripoli but as our she's marie if an ocean reports there are some libyans there who already want gadhafi. 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 solves once they see our camera yeah. like what we're coming out with it tell about. 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 could you tell it on camera no no thanks if i peed from the camera they will send a bullet to my well. 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 do you flags new slogans new speeches. and the rebels were out celebrating again this week when the head of the national transitional council libya's new authority arise in the capital before large crowds even libyans in no doubt about who's really. the those who don't support mr far pozole you 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 there. would. be very. tough it is effectively gone then you also artists have settled 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 on the control of the national transitional council and we don't feel we have freedom to talk or to. so opinion if we see something in favor of gadhafi they can kill us and the rest of us of course money or in the future. the nineteen year old says many of his friends have been arrested recently for making the critical statements about a new regime ironically we're talking just a kilometer away from one of his top secret jails for political prisoners known as obviously. 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 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 some here that's more his in-store regional ssion r t three pally libya as the power struggle in libya rumbles on divisions are apparently appearing between some and take it out in forces now the common goal of tar on the corals a cargo of different agendas of the un trained and many armed fighters are surfacing middle east analyst james daniels are. things libya's new government will have its hands for trying to restore order. it's a really dangerous scenario it's similar to what happened in iraq in the fall of baghdad a very weaponized society people with both massive weapons in their homes as well as the looting or large scale military grade munitions g.'s morphism even materials of components all of potential chemical weapons and this is

a very dangerous and are you considering the numbers of groups operating in libya at present on the fluid nature of the situation so i believe that the the transitional national council their first job is of course to finish your thought seeing in the areas that are still holding out for a good happy this second job is to give themselves legitimacy by getting the electoral cycle in and undergo an eventual really is to prevent the weapons group aeration across the country that's a very difficult job commentary from london based middle east analyst james denzil i'll stay with us here on r t for all the latest on the conflict in libya. there was reiterating its 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 on saturday 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 how is the deal sealed this week with romania and turkey who both agreed to host parts of the u.s.

missile defense system vericut insists it's designed to counter a possible attack from iran or north korea but peace analyst bruce gagnon tells r t that's not what he thinks the shield is really about for. u.s. is using nato and nato expansion as the i think the ploy or the carrot and draw in other countries like turkey in romania making them feel like they're going to be taking care of by the european union. but clearly what we're talking about here is major tensions in the region between the united states and missile defense deployments that are now going into poland. turkey and other countries in the county near earth as well as nato expansion throughout the region we're seeing basically in sort of home in russia at the same time the u.s. is doing the same thing to china with its faces in missile defense and points in japan south korea now. u.s. is the point patriot missile crisis comes on your i want and so this is clearly

about trying to control and you contain both russia and china. stay with us here on r t we've got lots more headed your way including the historic launch of iran's first nuclear plant the russians will share facilities success believe linked up to iran's national grid with a deal to send the spent fuel abroad so it can be used to make atomic weapons plus the. south stream steaming ahead european energy majors sign 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. but first the u.k. and russian made moves to patch things up between them with a visit to the kremlin by the british prime minister david cameron this week leaders of both nations agreed that they're on resolve issues shouldn't get in the way of mutual progress it was the first official visit to russia by a 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 six but david cameron

and to be true medvedev agreed that the case should not hold back their partnership dr patrick fuller we worked extensively in science and technology projects between the 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 out salut the 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 a lot of the ins co where there are all kinds of interesting things to be found the legacy of the soviet research institutes are 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 and 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 a breakaway great away kosovo now and belgrade chief negotiator is urging for karma on both sides to seek a diplomatic solution violence broke out after a kosovo police backed by nato led forces took over a two disputed border post previously under a certain control or sarah ferguson or. you can see the sign put up by the capel forces it's a warning to the ethics protesters ok for the nato a peacekeeping mission has been working here at the border points with you like they call their gold wire fences out there with the sound bags as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricade of these disputed border points not so many of the men and they've made it very very clear that if

anyone tries to move 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 ethics population here in the north as an extension of prettiness 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 the place resulted in the death of the policemen is actually relatively quiet here what we've seen is a huge number of. i think servants turning out at these barricades but what we've got at the moment is a standoff situation is being called a war of nerves because of the checkpoints at the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the case full force is at the actual crossings themselves no one wants to make these and although the words have been quite diplomatic from what we've heard on base side there's calls for calm and for peace but of course the

actions the scene quite different and there still seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved political analyst i would say to a power outage has the nato led mission in kosovo or maybe violating the u.n. mandate or failing to maintain neutrality. ok for meeting nato has absolutely overstepped their man being their u.n. 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 i mean one side they're clearly taking the baby inside these the session is the government in prishtina the capital of kosovo we have the security council we're we have five states each with veto power we have three western states and two man was two states so really if the west decides to support any unilateral action. you can't stop it so it's not surprising been sponsoring kosovo independence for years now and there are actually

thinking that there are entering the endgame now and there are actually doing a hard push for it right now. iran's first nuclear energy plant went on line monday the only such facility in the middle east the russian built reactors are working at forty percent capacity and should reach full power in december moscow says it will keep providing help and fuel for the plant to iran takes full control of twenty fifteen western nations have long been concerned about the country's atomic program claiming it's just a cover for making nuclear weapons which tehran has repeatedly denied political scientist aluf told a new job from the university of london kills r t without evidence iran has the same right as others 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 sense economically 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 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 ars he's still ahead the italian town that runs to run from the rome fed up with being battered by the rest of italy's floundering economy one sleepy rural community is trying to go it alone plus. taking an

exclusion egg scourging to meet their noble tourists who are endangering their health for a holiday despite the radiation wrists. but first in latvia a party backed by the large russian community there won a majority in a snap problem entry election with almost all the votes tallied the harmony center part you won twenty nine percent it's the first time russia supporting parties led the polls in the former soviet states since it became independent but speculation is growing rival lobby and politicians may form a coalition to keep the program party out of government about a third of the country's population are russian speakers but 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 treaty in europe year round moscow spent the last four years agreeing on the details with its partners who want guarantees of nonstop

supplies flow have been disrupted several times in the past along the current pipelines due to disputes between russia and transit countries and ukraine so a stream will deliver gas along the bottom of the black sea bypassing any possible political barriers german french and italian firms have now signed on to the project to be completed by twenty fifteen and energy analysts julian lease says europe is still wary of becoming too dependent on russia. well nobody in europe is suggesting that russia will not be a major and probably a major supplier of gas to europe now and in the future i guess not seen this. what europe is trying to do aides to add. variety to sources of gas supply in cars and want to be charmed by them fully dependent on russian gas in exactly the same way that it doesn't work. on north african gas or indeed on

nazi gas what it's seeking to do is eastern find a balance between a variety of suppliers delivering gas through karate or routes and nobody's disputing among them derogatory russian will resign will continue to be was a most important. curry says prime minister has canceled his trip to the u.n. general assembly meetings in new york to deal with the country's worsening get battle greece has only enough cash on hand to see it through the next few weeks and eurozone finance ministers are for now sitting on the eight billion euro second bailout pain it is said the country is falling behind on its spending targets and missed a series of important deadlines chris what i have to wait until october to find out if it will get the second loan out and says it's on the verge of being unable to pay the interest on its massive debt experts say it's too late to save the greek economy and it must exit the eurozone for it's so good. the greek economy is in an

outright depression now keep the shrinking at the moment seventy 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 the greek can agree on 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 ask let's see 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. across the ionian sea italy's parliament has agreed to 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 and tax on the rich but for some that's a step too far as italians for some italians as are he's ivor bennett discovered in one town that's trying to turn its back on rome. welcome to filipino a small town in the middle of italy it also claims to be an independent principality and to prove it 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 mall towns to merge

having the number of local authorities with a population of just six hundred tino and it's may i thought the chop but. it's a terrible idea because it makes no economic sense we have everything here to be autonomous and besides the neighboring towns are only 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 shit one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. the second highest in europe bunions 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 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 to 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 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 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 realty knows the source of rose water supply and that may is

threatening to cancel its own he doesn't get what he wants and other benefits see philip see no easily. if you like out there's plenty more on air and online around the clock. and here's the stories that are a click away right now grab the bull by the horns in lower manhattan as hundreds of protesters have a banking system that's left many jobless and homeless but the demonstration occupy wall street what's. being seen to be a green world carfree day coming up in russia has even launched an eco week to get drivers to ditch the wheels and saddle up for a cycle of. relations between turkey and israel plunged to their lowest point in decades this week with turkish leaders threatening to further isolate its longtime ally in their ally in the region anger is rising over israel's refusal to apologize for the deaths of nine gaza aid activists in ricers flotilla raid

turkey's prime minister travel to egypt to enlist its support with both countries experiencing struggling times with israel earlier turkey expelled israeli diplomats and severed military ties the u.s. is urging talks and offering to mediate which turkey rejected one political commentator accuses excuses israel of an old fashioned policy and failing to see the world maybe changing around them. israel now is getting away from the notion that it needs rational democratic allies in the region and this isolation now taking place because israeli call aleutian israeli decision makers on the political level. choosing we want to to if you will only last was our allies by refusing to apologize for turkey for what has been taking place and hoping to get away with what has been done against them certainly puts

four forward in new in israeli image in the peoples of. the country who continue spalled fashion policies while the world around them in their need to be cynically he is really changing powerful you. of all the places you might expect to appear on a list of the world's most exotic tourist destinations there should obama nuclear disaster site makes a surprising appearance here it's 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 authorities alexei are shouting reports from ukraine the hazardous holidays may be 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 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 twenty fifth anniversary of the disaster but for those craving for the first hand 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 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 a former resident of the girls 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. so. 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 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 his own has been going around one hundred u.s. dollars to do so equating to a multi-million dollar revenue every year. we were 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 problems. at 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 that your novels

on 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 bigger fuel their 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. ski artsy reporting from kiev and chernobyl in ukraine. stay with us here on. i'll be recapping the week's top stories in a few moments. coming

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