one pm in the russian capital i'm at treasure bring you today's top stories in a look back at the week's news here on r t we start in libya where 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 sir to bani walid and sabol now witnessing house to house battles with hundreds of civilians caught in the crossfire it's thought colonel gadhafi who's still on the run could be hiding in one of the besieged cities meanwhile life is something of returning to normal in the capital but as artie's marie 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 to deal who remain defiant but fearful in parts of the city the rebels triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened or did so somewhere else. now

who will do anything to moammar and the memoir even if we have to give our lifes. fervent support for the ousted leader does solves once they see our camera in there . like one with a weird telling me how could it tell the camera why. it's the same situation with others to. go if he's 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 they couldn't tell it on camera no no paying say five p. in front of the camera they will send the bullet to my head 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 leaving libyans in no doubt about who's really. those who don't support mr fahd those on the 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. would. be a very. good offer is effectively gone then you also have several 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 bear 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 they can kill us and the rest of us of course money are 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 dock 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 homes are covered in blogs amnesty international has recently accused both conduct his regime and the one which replaced it of committing war crimes including killings and torture of military prisoners and civilians theories are being felt by some here

that more his in-store. reach notion r t three probably libya. the u.s. was quick to support revolutions in libya and egypt as a democratic expression of the people's will and it might not stop there with calls for syria's regime to step down to a move that could leave iran out in the cold in its own neighborhood or he's got a chick yard reports. as nations in the middle east and north africa are torn between the struggle to bring about change and the struggle not to let that change ruin their lives washington views the arab spring as an opportunity to finally see some of its longtime foes crumble you know. iran is not an arab country the arab spring to spread to absolutely. and i think in many ways it's a matter of time before that kind of change. and revolution occurs in the runs under the umbrella if 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 assad's days just like a dog for your number and let's hope that washer assad 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 syria to 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 iran 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 would spread all across the world what this is all about is the arab spring and bashar assad is next and even 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 have just achieved. 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 in venice. wailing 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 the seeking to increase its influence and control in 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 objections storm peace really embassy and rage by the killing of five egyptian border guards in leave washington supported leadership is taking over but 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 yet washington seems to be using the herb 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 check our reporting from washington r.t. . moscow's reiterating its deep concern over plans to house u.s. missiles in poland following the announcement that parts of the defense shield could be in place by twenty eighteen the foreign ministry in moscow said saturday that urgent talks with nato were needed as well as hard guarantees that russian security will be at risk warsaw and washington's outline for putting missiles on polish soil follows deals sealed this week with romania and turkey who agreed to host parts of the u.s. missile defense system american says it's designed to counter possible attacks from iran or north korea but peace title is

a bruiser gagnon tells r t that's not what he thinks the shield is really about. u.s. is using nato and nato expansion as the i think the ploy or the carrot to draw in other countries like turkey and romania making them feel like they're going to be taken care of by the european union. but clearly what we're talking about here is major tensions in the region between the united states' 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 the encirclement of russia at the same time the u.s. is doing the same thing to china with its space that has been missile defense deployments in japan south korea token now the. u.s. is deploying patriot missile defense systems on your i won and so this is clearly about trying to control the contain both russia and china. more the week's top

stories coming your way including the historic launch of iran's first nuclear power plant the russian built to share facility is successfully wired up to iran's national grid with a deal to send a spent fuel abroad so it can't be used to make nuclear weapons. and the south stream project steaming ahead of 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. but first the u.k. and russia move to patch things up between the two with a visit to the kremlin by british prime minister david cameron this week leaders of both countries agree that there are unresolved issues shouldn't get in the way of progress as with the first official visit to russia by a british pm in six years relations between the two soured over the murder of former f.s.b. officer alexander litvinenko in london in two thousand and six but david cameron and dimitri medvedev agree the case should not hold back their partnership dr

patrick fuller who's worked extensively in science and technology projects between the u.k. and russia sees potential ahead. russia's taken the first steps in establishing the new business center at skolkovo establishing what is going to be i suppose a kind of silicon valley there and british involvement in that is going to be absolutely key in terms of developing companies developing those days and helping the russian high tech businesses expand outside russia into markets in europe russia remains a kind of a lot of the 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 ethnic tensions on serb use border with a breakaway kosovo mount belgrade chief negotiator is urging for calm on both sides to find a diplomatic solution violence broke out after kosovo police backed by nato forces took over two border disputed border posts previously under-served control sorry for more you can see the sign put up by the k full force it's a warning to the ethnics protest is ok for the nato peacekeeping mission that's been working here at the border points with. they go there bob why offenses out there go the sandbags 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 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 filing clashes over the course think of the making of me to try and take place resulted in the death of a policeman is actually relatively quiet what we've seen is a huge number of. i think it's turning out at these barricades that what we've got at the moment is the standoff situation is being called a war of nerves because the base the checkpoints at the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the case full force is at the actual crossing themselves at the no one wants to make a meet and they the way it's being quite diplomatic from what we've heard on base side those calls for calm and for peace but of course the actions the scene quite different than that still seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved. political analyst

alexander pavitra says the nato led mission in kosovo may be violating the u.n. mandate by failing to maintain neutrality ok for meeting nato have absolutely overstepped their mandate their un mandate is clear there's 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 albanian side these the session is the government in prishtina the capital of kosovo we have the security council we have five states each with veto power you have three western states and two non western states so really if the west decides to support any unilateral action. you can't stop it so it's not surprising they've been sponsoring kosovo independence for years now and they're actually thinking that they're entering the endgame now and they're actually doing a hard push for it right now iran's first nuclear power plant went on line monday

the only such facility in the middle east the russian built reactors are working at forty percent capacity right now and should be at full power in december moscow says it will continue providing help and fuel for the plant till iran takes full control in two thousand and fifteen western nations have long been worried about the country's atomic program claiming it's a cover for making nuclear bombs which tehran's repeatedly denied political scientist al effects from the university of london tells r t that without evidence he thinks iran has the same right to peaceful nuclear energy as other nations. 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 spies 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. coming your way slater the italian town that wants to run from rome being fed up with being uttered by the rest of italy's floundering economy one sleepy little community is deciding to try and go it alone. and exclusion a excursion meet the sure noble tourists who are endangering their health for ali day despite the

radiation risks. but first in latvia party backed by the large russian community there won a majority in a snap parliamentary election with almost all the votes now 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 speculation is growing that rival latvian politicians might try to form a coalition to keep the progress party out of the government about a third of the country's population are russian speakers but many of them are non-citizens who have no voting rights russia and its. system are still the twenty five billion dollar energy deal this week the soon to be built south stream pipeline will pump russian gas straight into europe all year round moscow spent the last four years hammering out the details with its partners who want guarantees of nonstop supply the flow had been disrupted several times in the past along the current pipelines because of disputes between russia and transit countries belarus

and ukraine south stream will deliver gas along the bottom of the black sea bypassing possible political barriers german french and italian firms have signed on to the project which is due to be finished by two thousand and fifteen energy analysts julian lease says that europe is still wary of becoming too dependent on russia. nobody in europe is suggesting that the russian 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 a souless of gas supply it doesn't want to be overly dependent on russian gas in exactly the same way that it doesn't want to become a legally 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 goods among that variety russian will ease and will continue to be was the most important. greece's prime minister has canceled his trip to the u.n. general assembly meetings in new york to deal with the country's worsening debt crisis greece only has enough cash to see it through the next few weeks and eurozone finance ministers are for now sitting on the eight billion euro second bailout payment they say the country is falling behind on its funding cuts targets has missed a series of important deadlines greece will now have to wait till october to find out whether it'll get a second loan athan says it's on the verge of being unable to pay the interest on its massive debt person exports though it's too late to save the greek economy and they say it must exit the euro zone for its own good. 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 say 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 poor to go maybe i will 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 stop the rot from engulfing europe's third largest economy this includes changes to pensions reducing government

spending at a tax on the rich but it's all a step too far for us i tell you as ivor bennett's discovered in one small town that's trying to turn its back. 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 a new note says town mayor lucas a lhari now self-proclaimed prince i guess everyone dreams of being a prince when they're a little boy and so did i now i get to live that dream filipinos going solo in protest over government plans to slash council funding it wants mall towns to merge having the number of local authorities with a population of just six hundred phila teano and its mayor for the chop. it's a terrible idea because it makes no economic sense we have everything here to be

autonomous and besides our neighboring towns are at least thirty kilometers away so it's not practically possible it wouldn't even save that much money most regional administrations do nothing to get rid of them instead italy's in deep debt one hundred twenty percent of g.d.p. the second highest in europe but unions 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 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 there is no exam legal tender just souvenirs but the

plan is for two theory to be worth one euro and for this to be the only currency they could be spent in the shops and restaurants here be. business is always been slow in this sleepy town but shopkeepers hope the new money will bring new cash. i'm sure that once we start using the new currency the economic situation here will significantly improve it will have a positive effect on tourism of course attracting more people to the town. far from being a p.r. stunt filipino means business and berlusconi knows it he's visiting the town later this month to stave off the rebellion and he'll have a fight on his hands villa tino's the source of rome's water supply and that may is threatening to cut its own if he doesn't get what he wants on the bennetts. fillets . you can find more coverage on this and plenty more around the clock at put away

at our team dot com here's what's a lie right now taking the bull by the horns in lower manhattan as hundreds protest that the banking system that they say has left many jobless and homeless with a demonstration they're calling occupy wall street what's. being seen to be green at the world carfree day coming up in russia's longstanding eco week to get drivers to ditch the wheels and saddle up for a cycle of. running out the broadcast of all the places you might expect to see on a list of the world's most exotic tourist destinations the sure no one nuclear disaster site makes a surprising appearance after twenty five year years of the world's worst nuclear accident the exclusion zone seems to be pulling people in rather than driving them away these days but as artie's alexei our chef ski 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 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 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 ghost town 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. for some it's their childhood like the atmosphere of the soviet union has been preserved but for me it's more important not why they come here but what effect it has on them. but since june 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 multimillion 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 their air 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. ski r.t. reporting from kiev and to normal in ukraine. stay with us here on our team in a few moments we'll take you to russia's southern krasnodar region but first i'll

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one thirty pm in moscow we're bringing you the latest news in the week's top stories on our t.v. get off these remaining supporters put up fierce resistance in three libyan cities while his remaining supporters in tripoli see their reply fear and repression loyalist forces are deeply entrenched inserted bani walid and saad adoptee's whereabouts and may not know. as nato moves ahead with pressure agreements on putting u.s. missiles in eastern europe there are security concerns at the kremlin and a call for urgent talks were mania poland and turkey all poised to host elements of the defense shield that moscow worries could neutralize its nuclear deterrent. moscow and london putting deals before differences with david cameron securing multi-million dollar contracts during the for this trip by a british prime minister to russia in six years both sides show their grievances disagreements even though the two.