cringe in their stupid reticence this is really him in scheme we could switch and say look you can scream or you. know sort of. this in the week's top stories on our t.v. about these remaining supporters put up a fierce resistance of three libyan cities well the people of tripoli who still support the ousted colonel say they're gripped by fear and face real pressure. as nato seems ahead with fresh agreements with putting american missiles in eastern europe there are security concerns up the kremlin and a call for urgent talks. moscow and london put deals before differences with david cameron securing multi-million dollar contracts during the first trip by a british foreign minister to russia and six years. plus peacekeepers of kossovo are on high alert as ethnic tension is served as a breakaway republic reaches a boiling point.

it's just after two pm sunday here in the russian capital you're watching our t.v. now to libya first where fierce fighting rages on between pro and anti gadhafi forces loyalist troops are making their last stand in three cities which are under heavy assault by the relentless fighters who are backing the country's new government well served by the what. are now witnessing house to house battles with congress of civilians caught in the crossfire it's not colonel gadhafi was still on the run it could be hiding in one of the besieged cities lives returning to a kind of normality in the capital but as hard as many of the national reports some libyans there already want gadhafi back. a month after tripoli fell into rebels hands those who backed the old regime remain defiant not fearful in parts of

the city the rebels triumphant campaign feels like it's never happened or did so somewhere else. i doubt that we will do anything from our only moammar even if we have to give our lives. seven support for the ousted leader it is solved once they see how a camera interview with diane. like the one with a weird feeling how could you tell about camera why. it's the same situation with others to. his 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 we're going to tell your camera no no thanks and write the front of the camera they will send the bullets in my room all 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 eve lads' new slogan is news peaches. the rebels were out celebrating again this week when they had of the national transitional council leave is new authority a rise in the capital before large crowds leaving libyans in no doubt about who's really. those who don't support mr far those only 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 here there. you. have. it off it is effectively gone then you also have to settle 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 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 an opinion if we see something in favor of gadhafi who can kill us and the rest of us of course money and for. 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 sleen. the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with killings to intimidate through fear of their homes are covered in blogs and list international has recently accused both his 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 but more is in store reflection r t tripoli libya. well nato is pledging to keep up its airstrikes of support and to gadhafi forces for as long as it sees fit to live as a new governing body also gets a seat at the u.n. so will the british and french leaders see a friendly visit this week and africa analyst are you on the as a key with things that's more to do with securing deals 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 lead and search and. is very much indicative of the fact that this war is by no means subtle the visit on the part of nicolaus cosi of france and david cameron of britain this is an attempt to shore up this. takeover of the most are all rich and the most prosperous country only after. that was u.s. based africa analysts are your me as you keyword there and it do stay with r.t. for the latest from conflict torn libya. a moscow straighter rating 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 eight team or the foreign ministry in moscow said on saturday that urgent talks with nato are necessary as well as hard guarantees that

russian security want to be at risk warsaw and washington's outline for putting missiles are polish soil follows the you'll see all this week with rumania and turkey who agreed to host parts of america's missile defense system the u.s. insists designed to counter a possible attack from iran or north korea but peace analyst bruce had not told r.t. bats not what the shield is really about. u.s. is using nato and nato expansion as the i think of a carrot to draw in other countries like turkey in romania and it can then 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 united states missile defense deployments that are now entering into poland rumania turkey and other countries in the county nearest as well as nato expansion throughout the region we're seeing basically encircled the russia at the same time the u.s.

is doing the same thing to china with its bases in missile defense the points in japan south korea now. u.s. is the point patriot missile defense systems on your i want and so this is clearly trying to control me contain both russia and china. more of this week's talk news still to come including this story a collage of iran's first nuclear power plant the russian built push your facility has successfully wired up to a rather national grid the deal to send spare fuel abroad so it can't be used to make you feel above it. and the south stream streams ahead european energy majors signed up to the second project to get russian gas directly to europe but some still want to keep their supply options open all explained later in the program. the u.k. and russia moved to patch things up between them with a visit to the kremlin by british prime minister david cameron this week where the

leaders of both countries agreed that there are resolved issues shouldn't get in the way of 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 i have agreed ok should not hold back their partnership with patrick fuller who's worked extensively in science and technology projects in between the u.k. 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 where. british involvement is going to be absolutely key in terms of development companies development business and helping russian high tech businesses expand outside russia into not it's in europe russia remains

a kind of aladdin's whether all kinds of interesting things to be the legacy of the soviet research institutes and the first rate mathematics science or engineering education system means that there are all kinds of people ideas intellectual property that remain in russia to be discovered and exploited but i think is really key to the interesting future look what russia has in store in this whole area. as a. border with breakaway cost of zero mount belgrade's chief negotiator is urging for calm on both sides to find a diplomatic solution where violence broke out after a course of a police backed by needs of forces took over to the stupid border post previously under-served control r.t. sarah ferguson one of the sees checkpoints. you can see the sign by the k. full force it's a warning to the ethnics protesters ok for the nato peacekeeping mission it's been

working here at the border point with you like they go there bob wire fence is out to 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 moment or 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 obey lots more people coming to the defense as well to take a view of these control points what they see the ethnic serbs population here in the north as an extension of kristina's control over the disputed territory now amid concerns of repeat of what we saw in july when violent clashes over the course of the got the making of me to try and take this place resulted in the death of the policeman is actually being relatively quiet here what we've seen is a huge number of. ethnic serbians turning out at these barricades but what we've

got at the moment is a standoff situation as overlords knows because both the checkpoints at the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the capel forces at the actual crossing themselves ok no one wants to make a move and although the words have been quite diplomatic from what we've heard on both sides those calls the come for peace but of course the actions these seem quite different than there still seems to be a lot of hostility between both sides that needs to be resolved political analyst alexander poverty the need to lead mission in kosovo is violating the u.n. mandate by feeling to maintain the trolley. ok for meeting nato absolutely overstepped their man being their u.n. mandate it's clear they're supposed to be neutral down there they're supposed to be keeping the peace they're not supposed to be taking anyone's side they're clearly taking the old baby inside these secession is the government increased tonight in the capital of course of all we have the security council were we have five states

each with veto power we 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 big prospering because you independence for years now and they're actually thinking that they are entering the endgame now and they are actually doing a hard push for it right now iran's first nuclear power plant went online on monday the only such facilities in the middle east well the russian built reactors are working a forty percent capacity right now that should be at full power and december moscow says it will continue providing help and fuel for the plant until iran takes full control in twenty fifteen western nations have long been worried about the country's atomic program claiming it's a cover for making nuclear bombs which terrorize your people either night political scientists i'll be front told edge off of the diversity of rugged told r.t.

but without evidence iran has the same right to peaceful nuclear energy as any other nation. 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 confirmed by numerously and on 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. according to all the evidence that we have. still ahead for you this hour the it's holland town that wants to run from the real. battered by the rest of italy's floundering economy once the rural communities decided to go it alone. and taking on exclusion acts perfect noble tourists are in danger in their health from holiday despite the radiation risks. in la a party backed by the large russian community there won a majority in a snap parliamentary election with almost all votes now counted the havanese center party won at twenty nine percent is the first time her russian supported parties led the polls in the former soviet state since it became independent but speculation is growing that rival lapid 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 customer sealed a twenty five billion dollar energy deal because sweet is soon to be built a south stream pipeline will pump russian gas straight into europe all year round moscow has spent the last four years agreeing the details with its partners who want guarantees of nonstop supplies the flow have been disrupted several times in the past along current pipelines and huge rallies between russia and the transit countries at ukraine well south stream will deliver gas along the bottom of the black sea bypassing any possible political barriers of german or french and italian firms have now signed up to the project which is due to be completed by twenty fifteen energy analysts julia least 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 the major supply route. to europe now and in the future that's not in dispute. and what europe is trying to do is to add. variety to its sources of gas supply it doesn't want to be trying unfairly dependent on russian gas in exactly the same way that it doesn't want to leave it on the north african or indeed or not see. what it's seeking to do is eastern point in the balance between a variety of suppliers delivering jackscrew variety of routes and nobody is disputing gooch among that there are actually russian will ease and will continue to be the most important. that we prime minister has canceled his trip to the u.n. general assembly meetings in america to deal with this country's worsening recently has enough cash to see it through the next few weeks and years of finance ministers

are right now sitting on the eight billion euro second bailout payment they say the country has fallen behind on its credit cards targets and has missed a series of bad lives greece will now have to wait until october to find out whether it will get the second blow abbott says that it's on the verge of being able to pay the interest on its massive debt for some experts it's still way to say the greek economy at it must exit the years are for its own good. a greek economy is in an outright depression the k 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. 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 and i think we have passed the point now where we can argue that we can say finish within the euro zone. to let's see if 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 cortical maybe ireland and of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries like spain. and across the ionian sea italy's problem of his agreed a fifty four billion euro package of cuts to try and stop the rot from the gulf europe's third largest economy well it includes changes to pensions reducing government spending as well as a tax on the rich but it's a step too far for somebody else as ivor bennett's discovered in a town that's turned its back on rome. 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 philip the nose 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 for the chop. it's a terrible idea because it makes no economic sense we have everything here to be autonomous and besides the neighboring towns are at least thirty kilometers away so it's not practically possible it wouldn't even save that much money most regional administrations do nothing we should get rid of them instead 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 the 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 but the moment these notes aren't legal tender they just souvenirs the plan is for two theory to be worth one euro and for this to be the only currency they could be spent in the shops and restaurants here business has always been so. in this sleepy town but shopkeepers hope the new money will bring new cash to. ensure 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 filipinos the sorts of roads water supply and the mayor is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get order you wants either bennett r.t. filipino italy. over on air and online around the clock at r.t. dot com where we have more of the stories you are talking about like grabbing the bull by the horns in lower manhattan as hundreds protest the banking system has left many jobless said homeless for the dam no doubt occupy wall street. falls along the line of being seen to be greener world barfly day is ahead of russia's large for me told me to get drivers to get the wheels of saddle up for

cycling. now of all the places you might expect to appear in a list of the world's most exotic tourist destinations that are noble nuclear disaster site makes a surprising appearance twenty five years after the world's worst nuclear accident exclusion zone seems to be pulling people in rather than different driving them away as art is alexia to share school reports from ukraine the hazardous holidays are a double edged sword. these cars were once heavily affected by nuclear radiation now they radiate for a different reason part of an exhibition in key of dedicated to the clear rubble of a nine hundred eighty six chernobyl fallout over the years the chernobyl museum in ukraine's capital kiev has become one of the top tourist attractions especially in april this year when the world marked the twentieth anniversary of the disaster but for those craving for the firsthand post-apocalyptic experience looking at the exhibition here has not been enough. and there is an adventurous alternative to the

contaminated zone around chernobyl 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. a look sounds a former resident of the ghost town of pretty good 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 even have different reasons for. someone to see what an apocalypse could look like credit someone to feel the history but of course 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 it's what effect it has on them. but since june that

this radioactive tourism has been suspended a 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 paying around one hundred u.s. dollars to do so equating to a multi-million dollar revenue every year. we were to the ministry to inform the government of every dollar earned by the strips we know that a lot of money is only all we have no idea in whose pockets it ended up why not with the money into the budget and use it to solve the problems. that the ministry is defying that says 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 by experts say it could still serve other purposes proposed by you to deep into mission procedures almost half of their air has an acceptable levels of radiation that's why we can use this watch on

a space is to build solar and wind power stations and even grow be a fuel there emergencies ministry has now filed a lawsuit to resume to or still be 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. looks you were sure. it was you from pew. ukraine. now for more international news and briefer coverage for you today the nevada air show tragedy queen nine lives as a best gaiters look into how a vintage aircraft lost control of thought into spectators dozens more were injured the world war two era plane slammed into a box seat area in front of the main grandstand it's not mechanical problems are to blame well there's also been a similar incident in west virginia what a vintage plane crashed and burst into flames killing the pilot in that incident no

spectators were hurt. and israel is ailing president says he will return to cuba for a fourth and possibly final round of chemotherapy hugo chavez underwent surgery in june to remove a tumor although it's not known for what type of cancer he's been through that for now chavez says he plans to finish his treatment soon and promises to run for reelection next year despite why their concerns are his health. it's called rock obama will announce on monday that there will be it's hot cyber americans earning more than a million dollars a year it's designed to even out the tax burden between the wealthy middle income earners and work towards the country's plan to reduce its deficit in the long term 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. now in a few minutes the u.s.

a woman in charge of the world's heritage tells us how antique thieves are jeopardizing global culture that's after we kept the week's top stories and today's sidelights coming up in a few moments. we'll

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