this is news of the week's top stories on our t.v. get off these remaining supporters could have pierced resistance in three libyan cities all the people of thoroughly was still support the colonel say they're gripped by fear and place for pressure. as nato seems ahead with fresh agreements are putting american missiles in eastern europe there are security concerns of the kremlin and a call for urgent. moscow in london with deals before differences to david cameron securing multi-million dollar contracts during a first trip wire british prime minister to russia in six years. plus peacekeepers in kossovo are high alert as a tension and service breakaway republic reaches gordon.

just after three pm here in moscow you're watching r.t. now to libya first her fierce fighting rages on between pro and anti gadhafi forces loyal as troops are making their last out of three cities which are under heavy assault by the relentless fighters who are backing the country's new government sirte bani walid are now witnessing house to house battles with hundreds of civilians caught in the crossfire it's law colonel gadhafi is still on the run and could be hiding in one of these besieged cities meanwhile was returning to a kind of normality in the capital resort as many of the national reports some libyans there already wanted off the back. and months after tripoli fell into rebels hands those who back the old regime remain defiant 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 lives. seven support for the ousted leader it is solved once they see our camera interview with diane here like the one with a weird telling me how could you tell the front 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 have no television goodfellow no camera no no faces right the front of the camera they will send a bullet in my room 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 you slogans new speeches. 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. those who don't support mr falk 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. because i. put. 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 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 who can kill us and the rest of us of course money you're in for. a nineteen year old says many of his friends have been arrested recently for making critical statements about new regime ironically we are talking just a kilometer away from one of the jockeys top secret jails for political prisoners known as abu salim don't let me be the rebels they only represent themselves not the libyan people this revolution started with killings to intimidate through fear their hearts are covered in blogs amnesty international has recently accused both jaffe's 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. the u.s. was quick to support the revolutions in libya and egypt as a democratic expression of the people's free will and that it might not stop there with calls for syria's regime to step down through all of that could leave iran out of the cold in its own neighborhood are to look out 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 could spread to actual. and i think and many ways and she matter of time before that kind of change. and revolution occurred in the runs 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 assad alone i think assad stays just like a doctor number let's hope the pressure 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 next 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 its are 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 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 where the libyan people will just achieve oh. 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 a government in china they would like to overthrow the government in russia they would like to overthrow the government of venezuela and cuba or wherever people are independent of the dictates of washington 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 influence and control in these countries let's look at how things have been in the control departments. for egypt thousands protest against the us backed military there that's the in power last week objections store and peace really embassy and rage by the killing of five egyptian border guards in the lead here rushing to the

literature if it's taking over but the country is at risk of plunging into tribal war theory or 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 early spring to fulfill its long time goals but the fear is 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 arche. moscow was really interesting and steve concerns over plans to house u.s. missiles in poland follow the announcement that parts of the defense shield could be in place by twenty eighteen by the foreign ministry in moscow said on saturday that urgent talks with nato are necessary as well as hard guarantees that russian security won't be at risk warsaw and washington's outline for putting missiles on polish soil follow seals this week with romania and turkey who agreed to host parts

of america's missile defense system for the u.s. insists it's designed to counter possible attacks from iran or north korea but peace analyst bruce was not told r.t. that's not for the shield is really about. if u.s. is using nato and nato expansion as the i think the ploy or the carrot to draw in other countries like turkey in romania and it can feel like they're going to be taken care of by the european union. but clearly rover 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 nearest as well as nato expansion throughout the region we're seeing basically in sort of russia at the same time the u.s. is doing the same thing to china with its bases it's been missile defense deployments in japan south korea token our blog the u.s. is deploying patriot missile defense systems on your i want and so this is clearly

about trying to control a new contain both russia and china. oh more of this week's top news still to come for you including those sturrock launch of iran's first nuclear power plant the russians will share a facility successfully wired up to iran's national grid with a deal to send the spent fuel abroad so it can be used to make your weapons. south st augustine's 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 will explain better 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 all the leaders of both countries agree 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 i'm excited if you go in london in two thousand and six but david cameron and dmitri medvedev agreed the case should not hold back their partnership dr perper recommends worked extensively in sides of 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 absolutely key in terms of development companies development business helping russian high tech businesses expand outside russia into markets in europe russia remains a kind of allow the ins weather up all kinds of interesting things to be the mega see of the soviet research institutes 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. russia has in store in this whole area. as ethnic tensions are service border with breakaway cost of the mountain both ways chief negotiator is searching for a card on both sides to find a diplomatic solution violence broke out after cost of a police backed by need to lead forces took over two disputed border posts previously under a sort of controlled art and surf earth is near one of the seas checkpoints. you can see the sign put up by a full force it's a warning to the ethnics protesters ok for the nato peacekeeping mission that's been working here at the border points with. that both wire fences that they've got the sandbags as well and still a number of protesters that have been staying at the barricade at the border point

not so many at the moment but they've made it very very clear that if anyone tries to remove the barricades that they've made over there willing to defend a lot more people coming to the defense as well they take a vote of these control points what they see the ethics the population here in the north as an extension of kristina's control over the disputed territory now amid concerns repeat of what we saw in july when violent clashes over the course the government making of me to try and take place resulted in the death of a policeman is actually relatively quiet here what we've seen is a huge number of serbian ethnic serbians turning out at these barricades but what we've got at the moment is a standoff situation it's been called a war of nerves because of both the checkpoints of the barricades is the serbian protesters and then the capel forces at the actual crossing 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 calm the 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 iran's first nuclear power plant went online on monday the only such facility in the middle east the russian built reactors are working a forty percent capacity right now and should be at full power in moscow says it will continue providing health and fuel for the plant until iran takes full control in twenty fifteen nations of long been worried about the country's atomic program claiming it's a cover for making nuclear bombs which terminals repeatedly denied political scientists put all of the charge from the university of london told r.t. that 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 the iranian nuclear program this has been very hyped of. the nuclear issue for political

reasons in order to be able to garner support of 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 why the u.s. intelligence services and very recently so as well so the world has to face that iran as other developed countries has a nuclear program which is peaceful according. according to all the evidence that we have. and still ahead for you this hour peeps holly i'm told that wants to run from rome for a private lesson italy's pondering economy let's leave the rural community has

decided to go it alone. and taking an exclusion of excursion to meet the teacher that will tourists for her help her holiday despite the radiation risk. a party backed by the large russian community there want a majority of us not problems in reelection but almost all votes now counted the harmony center party won twenty nine percent it's the first time a russian supported party has led the polls of the former soviet state since it became independent but speculation is growing that rival lothian 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 but many of them are non-citizens and have no voting rights. for russia and its key european gas customer sealed a twenty five billion dollar energy deal this week and the soon to be built 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 that's due to rouse between russia and transit countries like bella reuss and ukraine south stream will deliver gas along the bottom of the black sea bypassing any possible political barriers german or french and italian firms have now signed up to the project which is due to be completed by twenty fifteen now as you analyst julian lisa says europe is still wary of becoming too dependent on russia. nobody in europe is suggesting that russia will not be a major and probably the major supplier of gas to europe now and in the future. and what europe is trying to do is to add. variety to its sources of gas supply it doesn't want to become overly dependent on russian gas in exactly the

same way that it doesn't want to. north africa. or indeed or not see. what it's seeking to do is use and point a balance between a variety of suppliers delivering through routes and nobody is disputing good among that variety russian will ease and will continue to be the most important. the greek prime minister has canceled his trip to the u.n. generally general assembly meetings in america to deal with this country's worsening debt battle well greece only has enough cash to see it through the next few weeks and years of finance ministers are now sitting on their eight billion euro second bailout payment or they say the country has fallen behind on its spending cuts guess as mysteries of deadlines we still have to wait until october to find out whether it will get the second law happen says that it's on the for it should be able to pay the interest on its massive debt for some experts it's too

late to say they can economy and it must exit the euro zone or it's so good. the greek economy is in an outright depression now keep in 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 the greek can rescan 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 safely nice within the euro zone greece will have to act it can be organized in an orderly way but the risk is of course that there will be contagion in the direction of countries like for example portugal maybe ireland

and of course i'm not even mentioning here that would be an enormous problem countries like spain. cross the sea italy's parliament has agreed to fifty four billion euro package of cuts to try and stop the rot from golfing europe's third largest economy well that includes change just a pension reducing government spending as well as a tax on the rich but it's a step too far for some italians as ivor bennett's discovered and it's how that's turned its back on world. welcome to filipino a small town in the middle of italy it 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 boring and so did i now i get to live that dream filleted 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 village tino and its mayor a 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 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 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 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 they're 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 business is always been so. 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 jurors and of course attracting 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 villa tino's the source of rome's water supply and that may is threatening to cut it off if he doesn't get or do you want another bennett artsy filipino it's really. just your mind you were on air and online around the clock at r.t. dot com or with more of the stories we're your talking about such as grabbing the ball by the warrants of the hour that happen as hundreds of protesters are back in a system that's left and that the child was sent home was a demo occupy wall street. and also online of being seen to be greener world carfree day is ahead everyone has launched an eco week to get drivers to ditch their wheels etc i personally. have all the places you might expect to appear on a list of the world's most exotic tourist destinations but your noble nuclear disaster site makes a surprising appearance well twenty five years after the world's worst nuclear accident exclusion zone seems to be pulling people in a rather than driving the way result is i don't see it or shows the reports now

from ukraine the hazardous holidays are a double edged sword. these cars were once heavily affected by nuclear radiation now the radiator for a different reason part of an exhibition in kiev dedicated to the clean rubble of the one 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 markets twenty fifth anniversary of the disaster but for those craving for the firsthand course the political experience looking at the exhibition here has not been enough. and there is an adventurous alternative you can terminate zone around should normal itself over the past decades tourists have been flocking here 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 the visitors are always fascinated by what they see although all their motivations for making the trip have always varied. thank. you he will have different reasons. someone to see what an apocalypse could look like for someone to feel the history. which was some it's their childhood like the atmosphere of the soviet union has been preserved but for me it's more important why they come here it's 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 multi-million dollar revenue every year. we were to the ministry to inform the

governments of every dollar earned by these trips we know that a lot of money isn't really so 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 of. 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 which are not bill's own will never again be inhabited but experts say it could still serve other purposes such as were postponed due to decontamination procedures almost half of there has acceptable levels of radiation that's why we can use this watch on a basis to build solar and wind power stations and even grow be a fuel there emergencies ministry has now filed a lawsuit in a bid to resume tours to the contaminated zone and if word 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. i let's us ask you all see you from kenya and should normal in ukraine. or. i'll be back with a recap of our top stories in just a few moments if you stay with us on r.t. . the.

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